Music Business Times Legal News Feed Digesthttp://app.feed.informer.com/digest3/IQFGY1UCDG.html Respective post owners and feed distributors http://feed.informer.com/ Wolfgang's Vault, a site that offers downloads of vintage concerts and other memorabilia once owned by legendary concert promoter Bill Graham, has reached a tentative settlement with rock bands Santana and the Doors, and a number of record labels that sued the site for copyright infringement, http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2008/08/27/vintage-concert-site-wolfgang%2526%2523039%3Bs-vault-settles-labels Delicious/mbtimes/lticker http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2008/08/27/vintage-concert-site-wolfgang%2526%2523039%3Bs-vault-settles-labels? Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:33 GMT A man accused of posting nine previously unreleased songs by the rock band Guns N' Roses on a website where they could be accessed by the public was arrested at his home early today on suspicion of violating federal copyright laws, authorities said. Kevin Cogill, 27, is accused of posting the songs, which were bein http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gunsnroses28-2008aug28,0,6914718.story Delicious/mbtimes/lticker http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gunsnroses28-2008aug28,0,6914718.story? Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:24 GMT The recording industry appears to have won a closely watched copyright infringement case over charges of evidence tampering. Judge Neil Wake ruled Monday that Jeffery Howell, a defendant in Atlantic v. Howell, had willfully and intentionally destroyed evidence related to his peer-to-peer activities after being notif http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10026694-93.html?part=rss&subj=news Delicious/mbtimes/lticker http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10026694-93.html?part=rss&subj=news? Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:03 GMT What we now call the open source movement started as a reaction to the perceived extremism of folks like Richard Stallman with their demand that everything be free. The liberation of content, and the defiance of the copyright industries, remains a fault line between the open source business world and what you might c http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2823 Delicious/mbtimes/lticker http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2823? Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:02 GMT It's still possible that at any given moment the note that has been on the sight since last week - 'Muxtape will be unavailable for a brief period while we sort out a problem with the RIAA' - will be replaced by the mix sharing gloriousness we knew and loved. So we don't want to sound like we're delivering a sort ... http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/08/life-after-muxt.html Delicious/mbtimes/lticker http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/08/life-after-muxt.html? Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:00 GMT There is no polite way to put this: The parties at political conventions kind of suck. I mean, seriously, these are political operatives and reporters we're talking about. There is a ceiling on how much fun there is to be had. The redeeming factor of these orgies of excess is, well, the excess. http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2008/08/congress-riaa-dnc-black-eyed-peas.php Delicious/mbtimes/lticker http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2008/08/congress-riaa-dnc-black-eyed-peas.php? Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:58 GMT We were big fans of Muxtape, but when the the virtual mixtape service shut its doors last week because of legal issues with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), it definitely left us wanting for more. Last night, we heard about OpenTape, a self-hosted open source version of Muxtape ... http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/opentape_host_your_own_muxtape.php Delicious/mbtimes/lticker http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/opentape_host_your_own_muxtape.php? Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:57 GMT By now, we all know how the Recording Industry Association of America nabs alleged file sharers, more than 20,000 lawsuits and counting: Hired snoops from MediaSentry -- aka SafeNet -- log onto Kazaa, Limewire or other file sharing programs, peer into open share folders, take screen shots, download a few files and obt http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/do-riaa-snoops.html Delicious/mbtimes/lticker http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/do-riaa-snoops.html? Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:55 GMT News of hip hop mogul Marion ‘Suge’ Knight's Death Row Records having a new owner, Global Music Group, was premature. The sale was not the ‘done deal’ as reported. GMC never came through with payment for label. The Trustees have filed suit against GMC and are seeking a new buyer for the assets of Marion ‘Suge’ Knights hip hop / rap label Death Row Records. http://www.thuglifearmy.com/news/?id=4500 Delicious/mbtimes/lticker http://www.thuglifearmy.com/news/?id=4500? Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:08 GMT RoyaltyShare, a 35-person company that Bob Kohn launched in 2005 with the founding members of eMusic, is used by some 200 music companies. It offers shared software that generates graphs, pie charts and other visuals that break down where and how revenue is being generated from downloaded content. With a client base of mostly ... http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6589677.html?industryid=47152 Delicious/mbtimes/lticker http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6589677.html?industryid=47152? Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:32 GMT Keyboardist Ray Manzarek and guitarist Robby Krieger are on the hook for more than $5 million after they were found by lower courts to have improperly invoked the Doors' name and images during a 2003 concert tour. After the high court declined to hear their appeal on Aug. 13, they'll have to pay up to drummer John Densmore, the parents of the deceased lead singer Jim Morrison and the parents of Morrison's deceased wife, Pamela Courson, who died in 1974. The case goes back to 2002, when Densmore declined an offer from the other two to go on a concert tour as the Doors. Densmore said ... http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3if8116569e5fd87e4f6190336a73446bd Delicious/mbtimes/lticker http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3if8116569e5fd87e4f6190336a73446bd? Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:48 GMT Both MediaSentry's corporate parent, SafeNet, and the RIAA have insisted that the company does not need to be licensed to carry out the investigations, but the state agency responsible for licensing PIs ruled to the contrary last March. MediaSentry was also given a ... http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080824-business-as-usual-as-mediasentry-ignores-michigan-complaints.html Delicious/mbtimes/lticker http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080824-business-as-usual-as-mediasentry-ignores-michigan-complaints.html? Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:32 GMT A federal court ordered Isaac's writer's share rights sold for about $30,000. The rights have since earned millions for other people, said Lance Freed, president of Rondor Music, which owns the publishing (not writer's) rights. 'He lost millions; it was morally and ethically wrong to take it from him. He was devastated. Every time we met, he'd ask, ‘How much would I have earned this year?' I'd always tell him, ‘you don't want to know - it will make you too sad'. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article4592695.ece?Submitted=true Delicious/mbtimes/lticker http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article4592695.ece?Submitted=true? Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:14 GMT With Joe Biden as their VP candidate, the Democrats selected a politician who has spent most of his Senate career allied with the RIAA and who ranks toward the bottom of CNET's Technology Voters' Guide. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10024163-38.html??=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 Delicious/mbtimes/lticker http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10024163-38.html??=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20? Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:52 GMT British game companies are suing 25,000 people for illegally downloading their software from p2p sites. But get this: the UK music industry is NOT backing the gaming industry, sayng that working with ISPs to educate consumers is more effective than punishing file-sharers. http://www.1upgamers.com/music-industry-on-game-devs-fighting-illegal-file-sharers-youre-on-your-own/ Delicious/mbtimes/lticker http://www.1upgamers.com/music-industry-on-game-devs-fighting-illegal-file-sharers-youre-on-your-own/? Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:05 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/lticker http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16770? Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:30 GMT Johannes Kreidler hopes to question the concept of music copyright with a 33-second song called 'Product Placements' that includes no fewer than 70,200 samples - each of which must be cleared in order for the song to be legally released. This will entail delivering 70,200 forms to German copyright authorities, which Kreidler in http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/08/copyright-monke.html Delicious/mbtimes/lticker http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/08/copyright-monke.html? Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:24 GMT Sellaband, a Netherlands-based company that helps bands raise funds for recording by enabling fans to contribute online, has signed a deal with YouLicense.com, to allow bands using the service to make their music available for licensing to producers, filmmakers, and ad agencies. Sellaband will ... http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2008/08/22/sellaband-offers-fan-financed-recordings-youlicense.com Delicious/mbtimes/lticker http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2008/08/22/sellaband-offers-fan-financed-recordings-youlicense.com? Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:16 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/lticker http://www.ukpa.info/2008/08/22/the-new-mcps-prs-podcast-license/? Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:59 GMT The Performing Right Society has been victorious in a court case to prevent its Dutch equivalent Buma from issuing an illegal pan-European licence for online rights. The decision backs the PRS belief that collection societies cannot issue licences without the consent of rightsholders and the London-based company say ... http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=1035261&c=1 Delicious/mbtimes/lticker http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=1035261&c=1? Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:56 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/lticker http://textpattern.kurthanson.com/kurtsblog/465/must-pandora-die? Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:00 GMT 'You shouldn't be downloading pirated music files, Henry,' says Megan, our to our apparent antagonist. 'I won't get busted, Megan,' Henry replies.'The cyber police aren't looking for us poor college students. We don't have deep pockets.' Too funny for words right? The RIAA LOVES people without deep pockets ... http://www.zeropaid.com/news/9709/RIAA+Comic+Tries+to+Scare+Kids,+Says+they+Face+Years+in+Jail Delicious/mbtimes/lticker http://www.zeropaid.com/news/9709/RIAA+Comic+Tries+to+Scare+Kids,+Says+they+Face+Years+in+Jail? Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:39 GMT With music rights, licensing, and fees becoming top-of-mind issues lately, rights management firms RightsFlow and RoyaltyShare are expanding their footprint in the space. RoyaltyShare has acquired Broad Street Digital from Arbinet. Meanwhile, RightsFlow joined forces with CD Baby-which was recently acquired by Disc Makers-to give CD Baby clients the ability to ... http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3ib059277af12a4655d603c6b6ab7229b8 Delicious/mbtimes/lticker http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3ib059277af12a4655d603c6b6ab7229b8? Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:19 GMT The Pirate Bay had been quite mum over the recent development ever since it came out encrypting the entire internet and getting blocked down in Italy to having their traffic being hijacked by the IFPI. Although it didn’t do much damage to the traffic and had more people flocking in for the site. The Pirate Bay has ... http://startupmeme.com/the-pirate-bay-the-italians-must-set-the-pirates-free/ Delicious/mbtimes/lticker http://startupmeme.com/the-pirate-bay-the-italians-must-set-the-pirates-free/? Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:09 GMT Hong Kong has had a thriving recorded music industry in years gone by, but changes in distribution and the internet have dramatically affected both majors and domestic labels. Membership of the IFPI in Hong Kong extends beyond just the majors to include influential domestic labels with a total of around 76 members ... http://www.music2dot0.com/archives/132 Delicious/mbtimes/lticker http://www.music2dot0.com/archives/132? Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:06 GMT