Music Business Times Radio-TV-Video News Feed Informer http://feed.informer.com/images/fd.gif http://feed.informer.com/ http://app.feed.informer.com/digest3/152OVH0JFX.html Respective post owners and feed distributors http://feed.informer.com/ The deal moves Roxio’s products into Corel’s portfolio. Roxio is best known for software to create, edit, produce and play video and audio, including the Mac-user favorite Roxio Toast along with Roxio Creator, Roxio Game Capture, Roxio CinePlayer DVD Decoder and other titles. Corel also announced the first new product to emerge from the acquisition... http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2012/02/08/roxio-now-belongs-to-corel Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2012/02/08/roxio-now-belongs-to-corel? Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:33 GMT The Sony/Universal owned video site VEVO has been accused of unfair play in the US by Matt Pincus, the boss of indie publisher Songs Music Publishing. Pincus claims VEVO is failing to pay royalties to independent music publishers, despite recently boasting $150 million in revenues last year, and of having paid $100 million over to rights owners in its first two years in business... http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/vevo-accused-of-short-changing-indie-publishers/ Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/vevo-accused-of-short-changing-indie-publishers/? Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:15 GMT Fifteen or so years since Universal Music Group left for Santa Monica, the honchos at Universal City are taking down the signs on various streets and driveways that honor music legends. Going up in their place are signs naming movie figures of the past. Buddy Holly Drive has become W.C. Fields Drive. Muddy Waters Dr. is now Bob Hope Ave. And Patsy Cline Dr. has been transformed into Donald O'Connor Drive.... http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/02/universal_city_deletes_bu.php Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/02/universal_city_deletes_bu.php? Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:08 GMT The Czech Republic has stopped ratification of the controversial anti-counterfeiting trade agreement (Acta), becoming the second EU country to do so after Poland. 'We cannot accept under any circumstances, that civil liberties and free access to information are threatened in any way,' Prime Minister Petr Necas said... http://euobserver.com/22/115154 Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://euobserver.com/22/115154? Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:04 GMT Streaming radio aggregator TuneIn today launched a new analytics platform intended to provide broadcasters with free detailed info about their online listening. Called TuneIn Amplifier, the service reveals how many unique listeners tuned in, how many total listens (or 'tunes,' bascially the equivalent of session starts) the station accumulated and listening hours. Each metric, of course, only includes listeners who used TuneIn's website or apps to stream... http://www.kurthanson.com/news/web-radio-aggregator-breaks-audience-measurement-turf-tunein-amplifier Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://www.kurthanson.com/news/web-radio-aggregator-breaks-audience-measurement-turf-tunein-amplifier? Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:58 GMT Browsing the music thread on Reddit, I stumbled upon Drew Smith, an independent artist from Hamilton, Ontario. What caught my eye was the following headline, which had me incredibly intrigued: 'My brother outsourced his new music video to Bangalore, India. This is what he got back.' Was I intrigued? Big time. Was the video going to be a lesson in what not to do? Was it going to become a viral sensation because it was so awful? OR...was the end product something he could become incredibly proud of? See for yourself... http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2012/02/indie-artist-outsources-music-video-to-bangalore-india-wth-surprising-results.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FDqMf+%28hypebot%29&utm_content=Netvibes Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2012/02/indie-artist-outsources-music-video-to-bangalore-india-wth-surprising-results.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FDqMf+%28hypebot%29&utm_content=Netvibes? Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:51 GMT Two founders of The Pirate Bay have launched a new file-sharing site called Bayfiles, which they claim will respect copyright rules and comply with legitimate requests to remove content. Unlike The Pirate Bay, Bayfiles is not a BitTorrent tracker. Rather, it is a one-click-hosting service or ‘cyberlocker’ – similar to Megaupload, RapidShare and Hotfile – that allows users to upload movies, music and other files and easily share them with other people online. The site itself offers no search functionality or file directory, so only those who have received a link will be able to see what has been uploaded... http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/pirate-bay-founders-launch-legal-file-sharing-site-38216 Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/pirate-bay-founders-launch-legal-file-sharing-site-38216? Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:13 GMT Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, following a recent anti-piracy legislative debacle with SOPA and PIPA, will lead his second effort of 2012 to push Internet-regulating legislation, this time in the form of a new cybersecurity bill. The expected bill is the latest attempt by the Democrats to broadly expand the authority of executive branch agencies over the Internet... http://news.yahoo.com/democrats-continue-internet-coup-cyber-bill-035414457.html Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://news.yahoo.com/democrats-continue-internet-coup-cyber-bill-035414457.html? Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:08 GMT Universal Music yesterday announced a new partnership with Dutch company the Talpa Media Group in relation to yet another talent TV show format to be called 'The Winner Is'. Talpa is also the company behind talent franchise 'The Voice’, which is due to come to British screens in March via the BBC, and Universal is the record label partner on that programme too... http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/universal-partners-on-yet-another-musical-telly-talent-show/ Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/universal-partners-on-yet-another-musical-telly-talent-show/? Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:59 GMT CueSongs provides a simple way for anyone to find well-known, pre-licensed music recordings and immediately purchase the right to deploy them on their websites, on Facebook, YouTube, in apps, online advertising and other micro-usages. CueMusic's co-founder Peter Gabriel says. 'The old world of music licensing is still the exclusive province of the few. It's too expensive for most, rarely available online and can be painfully slow and complicated. By introducing low prices and easy online access, CueSongs is creating a new market for music, to satisfy a huge untapped demand that can begin to provide new income streams for artists... http://brand-e.biz/cuesongs-new-market-for-music_19352.html Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://brand-e.biz/cuesongs-new-market-for-music_19352.html? Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:53 GMT Will CEO Howard Stringer's departure, whose stumbles came to epitomize the struggles of the once-great Sony Corp., turn things around? It's impossible to know. But things certainly have not gone well at Sony over Stringer's seven-year tenure. The company that was once on the cutting edge is now widely regarded as clueless and arrogant. It stumbles, and then stumbles again when tries to explain itself... http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/02/02/howard-stringer-departing-sony-after-seven-years-of-stumbles/ Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/02/02/howard-stringer-departing-sony-after-seven-years-of-stumbles/? Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:43 GMT Technology has finally caught up to the late Alan Lomax’s imagination. His vast archive — 5,000 hours of sound recordings, 400,000 feet of film, 3,000 videotapes, 5,000 photographs and piles of manuscripts — is being digitized so that the collection can be accessed online. About 17,000 music tracks will be available for free streaming by the end of February, and later some of that music may be for sale as CDs or digital downloads... http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/31/arts/music/the-alan-lomax-collection-from-the-american-folklife-center.html?_r=4&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1328520629-ada1a5vw04/kSCO8TL4qzw Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/31/arts/music/the-alan-lomax-collection-from-the-american-folklife-center.html?_r=4&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1328520629-ada1a5vw04/kSCO8TL4qzw? Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:34 GMT There's a price on Paul Geller's head – $17 billion, to be exact. That's the amount that UMG Recordings, an arm of multimedia giant Universal, is suing Geller and his employer for in a New York federal court. The 29-year-old Geller has been personally named, along with the other senior executives of the Gainesville-based Escape Media Group, as a defendant in a copyright infringement suit targeting the company's online-streaming music site Grooveshark. The site allows its users to upload songs directly to its servers. The songs are then made available to anyone who wants to listen to them for free with no strings attached... http://orlandoweekly.com/news/eagle-vs-shark-1.1265934 Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://orlandoweekly.com/news/eagle-vs-shark-1.1265934? Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:43 GMT The U.S. Southern District of Manhattan Court is not allowing investors who bought Vivendi stock on the Paris stock exchange from 2000 to 2002 to pursue the company in an ongoing shareholder lawsuit that alleges the company misled investors about its financial health. Under then-CEO Jean-Marie Messier, Vivendi a decade ago revamped itself from a water conglomerate to a company with media and entertainment holdings, such as Universal Music Group, which it still owns... http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/vivendi-court-decision-foreign-shareholders-286449 Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/vivendi-court-decision-foreign-shareholders-286449? Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:36 GMT