Music Business Times Radio-TV-Video News Feed Digesthttp://app.feed.informer.com/digest3/152OVH0JFX.html Respective post owners and feed distributors http://feed.informer.com/ Do they make Kevlar boots? If not, someone should fashion a couple hundred pairs and send them to the various music industry powers that be, for once again, they're shooting themselves in the feet. This time, it's over Internet broadcasting. Thanks to a corrupt pay-for-play business model and centralized ... http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1544567/internet_broadcasters_getting_screwed/ Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1544567/internet_broadcasters_getting_screwed/? Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:39 GMT The re-launch is the first step in an ongoing process rolling out more robust broadcaster tools and APIs to provide for 3rd party developers. New features include a search toolbar, Facebook application, SHOUTcast blog, new skins, and a widget that can be integrated across several social networking groups including ... http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2008/09/aol-relaunches.html Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2008/09/aol-relaunches.html? Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:29 GMT Although its cousin, Freeview digital television, has been a roaring success, DAB has failed to take off. Freeview now accounts for 37% of television sets, rising to over 60% if you count Sky and cable. On radio, however, analog is still the nation's favorite; there are over 100 million analog radio ... http://www.spectator.co.uk/business/the-magazine/entrepreneur/2054481/the-lumbering-bbc-dinosaur-has-trampled-the-fledglings-of-the-dab-radio-revolution.thtml Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://www.spectator.co.uk/business/the-magazine/entrepreneur/2054481/the-lumbering-bbc-dinosaur-has-trampled-the-fledglings-of-the-dab-radio-revolution.thtml? Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:01 GMT 'We support an equitable resolution to the webcasting rate negotiations - one that fairly compensates artists and labels but still allows webcasting to grow. Webcasters need to be supported; they give independently produced music opportunities to be heard, which is all too often not the case at AM/FM radio ... http://www.dailytech.com/Music+Chief+Answers+DailyTechs+Tough+Questions/article12850.htm Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://www.dailytech.com/Music+Chief+Answers+DailyTechs+Tough+Questions/article12850.htm? Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:47 GMT BETA Records TV will have a music centric focus. Each segment will feature well-known and emerging artists, music industry executive interviews, reports on new CD releases, the latest in music equipment and recording techniques, and trends in pop culture. Most segments will be filmed at BETA’s multimedia village ... http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080904005309&newsLang=en Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080904005309&newsLang=en? Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:22 GMT One thing is for sure – the problems in the radio and record businesses are never the results of the people who run the radio and record businesses. It’s never their trade groups – NAB, RAB, RIAA. It’s always someone or something else that is the matter with these two industries. Those of you who know me know that ... http://insidemusicmedia.blogspot.com/2008/09/radio-records-inconvenient-truth.html Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://insidemusicmedia.blogspot.com/2008/09/radio-records-inconvenient-truth.html? Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:22 GMT NPR Podcast Directory now has 617 titles that get, in aggregate, about 12 million downloads per month. I believe NPR has spent millions of dollars on this initiative. Sounds like a good result, though, right? Journalists who picked up that press release thought so. But let’s do the math: http://textpattern.kurthanson.com/kurtsblog/475/podcasting-fad-or-trend Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://textpattern.kurthanson.com/kurtsblog/475/podcasting-fad-or-trend? Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:18 GMT In an unruly capitalistic playground like the Internet, the concept of 'ownership' will get stretched beyond the breaking point and replaced with rules that allow creative works to be produced at a cost of some royalties going uncollected. Surprisingly, oil led me to this conclusion. Oil is what economists call a 'fugitive resource,' a thing, like water or wild game, that migrates where it wants and is difficult to own in any conventional sense. Kind of like a grainy copy of an old episode of WKRP in Cincinnati that somebody posts on YouTube. http://www.forbes.com/home/2008/08/29/legal-intellectual-property-biz-beltway-cz_df_0902property.html Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://www.forbes.com/home/2008/08/29/legal-intellectual-property-biz-beltway-cz_df_0902property.html? Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:35 GMT YouTube's new search-choose model is a much more efficient business model for licensing content. Copyright holders make licensing decisions for specific copies with knowledge about circumstances and amount of attention the copy is attracting. Policy rules can easily be established and changed for these informed lice http://purplemotes.net/2008/08/31/youtubes-new-business-model/ Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://purplemotes.net/2008/08/31/youtubes-new-business-model/? Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:13 GMT The 2008 Olympics have ended, but it will take another nine months to determine the gold, silver and bronze winners ... in the music competition. The competitors are the John Williams 'Olympic Fanfare' Leo Arnaud's 'Bugler's Dream.' In the U.S. alone, each primetime use is likely to bring in between $500 and $2,500. Usage of the recordings in other territories would add even more to the coffers. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117991375.html?categoryId=2525&cs=1 Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117991375.html?categoryId=2525&cs=1? Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:15 GMT Users will be able to stream tracks for free with the ad-funded service from BBC Worldwide, the corporation's commercial arm. Digital rights-free tracks, which will play across any brand of media player, will be available for download to own. The service will also include hundreds of tracks recorded ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/aug/27/bbc.digitalmedia?gusrc=rss&feed=media Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/aug/27/bbc.digitalmedia?gusrc=rss&feed=media? Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:01 GMT It's a digital gold rush. You can 'Listen Live' to virtually any radio station in the country - and beyond. And, now, when you tune in to one station, that station happily shows you to a magic door, behind which dozens or hundreds of other stations, all in the corporate family, await you. As if anyone with a computer ... http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/24/PKM612ADVD.DTL Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/24/PKM612ADVD.DTL? Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:29 GMT What Kara DioGuardi's addition may certainly do is renew the buzz that Paula Abdul is on her way out. Last season, Abdul made a number of gaffes, including a lapse when she critiqued a contestant on a song he had not yet performed. (The comment was later explained as Abdul accidentally reading notes aloud she'd taken on his performance during rehearsals.) 'Idol' producers continued to back Abdul on Monday. 'We had originally intended for 'American Idol' to have four judges,' says executive producer Cecile Frot -Coutaz. 'We've seen from our international series that having a fourth judge creates a dynamic that benefits both the contestants and viewers.' http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/genre/e3i4f1bfc7cd3706a68ae12cfd31f01bbc6 Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/genre/e3i4f1bfc7cd3706a68ae12cfd31f01bbc6? Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:48 GMT I’m sure SoundExchange bids all the folks at Pandora good luck in finding a 'new hobby.' They don’t say where their beloved artists are going to get heard on the radio and find the audiences to come to the shows and buy the music they make. I guess they can find new hobbies, too. Applying SoundExchange’s webcaster ... http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16770 Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16770? Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:30 GMT In an era of fragmenting music revenue, we think that this is a huge opportunity to add a small army of passionate, knowledgable, skillful and (astonishingly) almost entirely 'unpaid' music promoters, and we call on more labels to take advantage of this excellent initiative, which in an era of 'free' music, potentially ... http://www.ukpa.info/2008/08/22/the-new-mcps-prs-podcast-license/ Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://www.ukpa.info/2008/08/22/the-new-mcps-prs-podcast-license/? Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:59 GMT If Pandora is forced to shut down, the outrage will be huge - among consumers, journalists, bloggers, working musicians, and even Congressional staffs. That will be the tipping point that either (1) triggers a consumer backlash against the RIAA, which, if expressed in the form of a boycott, as some bloggers have ... http://textpattern.kurthanson.com/kurtsblog/465/must-pandora-die Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://textpattern.kurthanson.com/kurtsblog/465/must-pandora-die? Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:00 GMT Current Internet radio diversity enables that garage band down the street to compete against major-label recording artists. A 'thinning of the Internet radio herd' could result in more major-label music being streamed over the remaining Internet stations to the detriment of artists on indie labels. Of course, the labels are saying it's all about ... http://www.pollstar.com/news/viewnews.pl?NewsID=11028 Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://www.pollstar.com/news/viewnews.pl?NewsID=11028? Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:41 GMT A federal judge has ruled that music companies and other copyright holders must consider 'fair use' of their materials before demanding YouTube and other video-sharing Web sites remove content. The ruling came in the case of a Pennsylvania woman who sued Universal Music because it forced YouTube to take down ... http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_10256494 Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_10256494? Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:04 GMT SoundExchange Head Jon Simson is the last person on the planet we expected to hear talking about how great Pandora's streaming radio service is. After all, his organization proposed the very same royalty rates enacted by the US Copyright Royalty Board that threaten to drive Pandora out of business. But in an April 2008 interview with Loyola University professor ... http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/08/soundexchange-h.html Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/08/soundexchange-h.html? Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:55 GMT It's one thing for the CRB to lose its collective mind, it's another for businesspeople who ought to know the market to start sawing their own feet off. It's not as if they'd even make much money in the process: The Web radio industry just isn't that rich. The people... http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2008/08/music_biz_still_trying_to_kill.html Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2008/08/music_biz_still_trying_to_kill.html? Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:59 GMT A federal judge is handing a Louisiana man a year in prison for pirating thousands of DVDs and CDs in a case highlighting the Motion Picture Association of America's wildly varying valuation of pirated discs. In the case of Tanner Hills of Louisiana, according to court records, an MPAA expert concluded that t http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/mpaa-waffling-o.html Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/mpaa-waffling-o.html? Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:45 GMT The obscure Copyright Royalty Board and the artist association are arguing that internet businesses like Pandora must pay higher royalties because they 'have higher margins,' Meaning, if you come up with a more efficient business model than terrestrial radio, your royalties should rise to the level http://www.blindreason.org/2008/08/pandora-battle-is-signal-to-media.html Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://www.blindreason.org/2008/08/pandora-battle-is-signal-to-media.html? Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:36 GMT There are some dire economics standing in the way of web radio. Last year, the Copyright Royalty Board ordered per-song performance royalties to be more than doubled for use online. Rates will increase from 8/100 of a cent per song per listener to 19/100 of a cent per song per listener by 2010. Pandora's royalty fees http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/18/AR2008081801861.html Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/18/AR2008081801861.html? Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:33 GMT Pandora made a bold political statement, saying they'd likely shut down rather than continue to pay exorbitant fees to play music to listeners of its massively popular service. Radio stations pay different rates depending on how they broadcast music. Terrestrial stations (normal FM/AM stations) pay nothing ... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/17/AR2008081700003.html Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/17/AR2008081700003.html? Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:18 GMT If there was some way of making more money from Internet radio operations, doesn't the recording industry think that the webcasters would take advantage of those practices? Why would they leave money on the table if they could figure out a way to make it? If they could make money, they would - though the recording ... http://www.broadcastlawblog.com/archives/internet-radio-washington-post-on-internet-radio-royalties-settlment-discussions-ongoing-but-can-an-agreement-be-reached.html Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://www.broadcastlawblog.com/archives/internet-radio-washington-post-on-internet-radio-royalties-settlment-discussions-ongoing-but-can-an-agreement-be-reached.html? Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:16 GMT