Tuesday’s Music Brief: Net Trends, Echo Nest, SF Music Tech, P2P As “Fair Use” & More
HYPEBOT FEATURES:
- Kyle Bylin: Throwaway Culture: When the MP3 Hits the Desktop Recycle Bin
- Is Music Marketing Changing To Meet Shifting Internet Usage Patterns?
- Spotify Partners With Echo Nest For Music Discovery
- WMG Refinances $500M in Debt
- INgrooves Adds Physical Distribution
- The Pirate's Dilemma Revisted – Part 2
MORE MUSIC BUSINESS NEWS:
- Unfiltered SF Music Tech highlights and comments via Twitter: #sfmusictech
- "P2P is Fair Use". Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson is headed to
federal court this summer to defend an accused file-swapper, and he
plans to mount a novel defense: P2P sharing is simply "fair use." (ars) - Analysis: What Can Replace Falling CD Revenues? by Glenn Peoples @ Billboard.biz. The numbers: $270 million (CD sales lost this year) + $119 million (digital tracks gain thus far in 2009) + $33 million (digital albums) -$65 million (mobile downturn in 2009) + $18 million (boost in performance royalties) = – $162 million.
- New York based indie Original Signal Recordings has named Karim Karmi as EVP and GM to oversee label operations. Previously, Karmi held the VP title for 3 years at Epic Records.
- New site soulandjazz.com has launched.
- John Scher and Al Cafaro's Metropolitan Talent, Robert Haber of CMJ and Joanne Abbot Green of the CMJ Music Marathon are merging their operations. Their plan is to create live and internet initiatives primarily aimed at the college music market and stand-alone events throughout the world modeled after the CMJ Music Marathon.
- A quiet revolution rages as web-savvy bands learn how to rule the airwaves. (Guardian UK) "Waning power of record firms and radio has prompted creative explosion among bands, not least in how to reach their fans, say industry experts gathered in Brighton."
- OOiZiT.com, a social network dedicated to exposing new UK music artists, has recieved a 6 figure investment from Zooki Digital. (press release)
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