Monday’s Music Brief: EMI Tests, New Industry Rules, TicketsNow, Wired Layoffs & More
HYPEBOT FEATURES:
- EMI Launches "Your SoundCheck" Online Music Research Community
- Future Of Music Coalition Wants To Rewrite Rules Of The Music Industry
- "Free" Thinker: IODA's Kevin Arnold
- Review Of The Free Music Debate
- REWIND: The Music Industry's Week In Review
- Daily DIY: Make Your Band Sound Great
- MocoNews interviews RealNetwork's Rob Glaser who sees unlimited cell data plans coming with unlimited music
- Ticketmaster owned TicketsNow is going to be required to turn over all secondary ticketing client info. (Billboard)
- Wired.com has layed off 3 out of 25 full-time staffers plus 5 contractors. Included in the layoffs was Eliot Van Buskirk, a respected music reporter who had authored the blog ListeningPost and more recently contributed to tje Epicenter blog. Leander Kahney, Wired.com's managing editor, has requested and teceived a pink slip as well. I sincerely hope that Eliot finds a new job and a new forum quickly. He's a smart and thoughtful writer.
- Come Together: Opening Hands for Brands. Marketers Won't Be Music Industry Saviors but Deserve Some Credit. A guest post by Jon Cohen and Rob Stone from Cornerstone Marketing. (Ad Age)
- Can We Please End The Myth That Anyone Is Trying To Take Away 'The Right Of Musicians To Get Paid'? (TechDirt)
- A full list of winners of The Academy Of Country Music Awards. (press release)
- My apologies for the format and loading problems on Hypebot over the last few days. I was traveling and didn't notice. Next time, somebody please email me…I believe theproblems are fixed now.