Music Business Times Publishing News Feed Digesthttp://app.feed.informer.com/digest3/UXTJUIMZBC.html Respective post owners and feed distributors http://feed.informer.com/ 2008 will see UK songwriters earn more from their music being broadcast or performed overseas than they do from sales of domestic physical product for the first time, according to PRS. PRS mid-year results show that $108.41 million was collected from overseas to be paid to UK songwriters so far this year, with the most money ... http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=1035278&c=1 Delicious/mbtimes/pticker http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=1035278&c=1? Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:16 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/pticker 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/pticker http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2823? Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:02 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/pticker http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6589677.html?industryid=47152? Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:32 GMT BMI kept alive its 24-year record-breaking revenue streak by posting $901 million in revenues for the fiscal year ended June 30, a 7.4% increase from the prior year. BMI's CEO Del Bryant noted, 'Our pro-technology and pro-business attitude has made it possible for BMI to grow revenues more than 7% each year over the past 10 years, almost doubling our income in that period.' http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i67f2ad037eba0dd6e71273482f4dd8da Delicious/mbtimes/pticker http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i67f2ad037eba0dd6e71273482f4dd8da? Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:40 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/pticker 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/pticker 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 George Jones kept talking like Donald Duck, driving producer Billy Sherrill to the brink. Jones was drinking heavily, in the midst of his 'Twilight Zone' period. Sherrill was trying to stop the duck talk and debauchery long enough to record 'He Stopped Loving Her Today.' That song 'took a year to make, and 10 years off my life,' he says. http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080824/ENTERTAINMENT01/808240338/1055/ENTERTAINMENT01 Delicious/mbtimes/pticker http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080824/ENTERTAINMENT01/808240338/1055/ENTERTAINMENT01? Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:48 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/pticker 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/pticker http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/08/copyright-monke.html? Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:24 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/pticker 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/pticker http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=1035261&c=1? Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:56 GMT Many countries take a cut out of foreign royalties and give it to their indigenous writers (claiming the need to support local talent). The French take this a step further, forcing their radio stations to play 40% French music dur http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/08/what_does_the_future_hold_for.html Delicious/mbtimes/pticker http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/08/what_does_the_future_hold_for.html? Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:01 GMT CD Baby, a unit of Disc Makers that operates a CD and download store for independent artists, on Wednesday announced a partnership with RightsFlow, a provider of online digital music licensing and royalty processing services for U.S. distributors ... http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2008/08/20/cd-baby-taps-rightsflow-offer-licensing-services Delicious/mbtimes/pticker http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2008/08/20/cd-baby-taps-rightsflow-offer-licensing-services? Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:29 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/pticker http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_10256494? Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:04 GMT The UK music industry has‘no plans’ to join British games companies in taking direct legal action against illegal file sharers. Five games companies have written to 25,000 people in Britain suspected of illegal downloading. They have demanded $550 in order to avoid further legal ... http://www.mcvuk.com/news/31555/Music-file-sharing-watchdogs-refuse-to-follow-games-lead Delicious/mbtimes/pticker http://www.mcvuk.com/news/31555/Music-file-sharing-watchdogs-refuse-to-follow-games-lead? Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:01 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/pticker 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/pticker http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2008/08/music_biz_still_trying_to_kill.html? Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:59 GMT With a total monthly unique user count of something around 25 million - up from 3 million in 2006 - The Pirate Bay is clearly doing very well for itself. It also means it's attracting a lot more attention. Attention that didn't work out very well for the recently closed and sued into oblivion TorrentSpy. While TPB ... http://www.techdigest.tv/2008/05/the_pirate_bay_3.html Delicious/mbtimes/pticker http://www.techdigest.tv/2008/05/the_pirate_bay_3.html? Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:41 GMT It is rumored that Playlouder, a website that offers, via BitTorrent, free music downloads to British users, will partner with Virgin media to give a wider range of playlists to its subscribers. Although people don't pay anything to listen to their favorite songs, the artists and distribution companies are retributed http://forum.torrents.ro/world-wide-web/4492-legal-peer-peer-music-website-may-sign-virgin-media-u-k.html Delicious/mbtimes/pticker http://forum.torrents.ro/world-wide-web/4492-legal-peer-peer-music-website-may-sign-virgin-media-u-k.html? Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:39 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/pticker 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/pticker 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/pticker 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/pticker 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 We were a bit surprised last month when Denise Barker, who had been fighting the RIAA in a file sharing lawsuit decided to take the strategy of admitting guilt but challenging the constitutionality of the Copyright Act. That seemed like a longshot that was unlikely to play well in court - especially a court that had http://techdirt.com/articles/20080818/1936552018.shtml Delicious/mbtimes/pticker http://techdirt.com/articles/20080818/1936552018.shtml? 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