David Pakman is Wrong on The Price Of Music (and streaming subscriptions)
Is there anyone left in the record business with common sense and a calculator? David Pakman wrote an interesting piece asserting the problem with streaming services getting up to scale is a matter of...
View ArticleMerlin on YouTube music payouts: ‘Their figures are by far the worst’ | Music...
“The ironic thing is that the service that pays the least is the service that’s the most well funded and run by the biggest company in the world: their figures are by far the worst, whether you measure...
View ArticleT Bone Burnett’s plea: The piper must be paid| LA Times
Fans can still hear the work of America’s musical pioneers, thanks to online and mobile services. Through downloads and streams and services such as Pandora and Sirius XM Radio, these giants’...
View ArticleSwimming Against the Stream: Musicians Fight for Their Worth in the Internet...
The cops were getting lots of calls. Drivers were worried. There was a woman walking down the road — the narrow part of Highway 1, just north of L.A. And she was pushing a baby carriage. When the cops...
View ArticleArtists Will Receive Nothing from the $3 Billion Beats Acquisition, Sources...
The three major labels secured an equity share in Beats Music as part of their licensing agreements with the service. But according to multiple sources close to those negotiations and Beats’ subsequent...
View Article!! Gizmodo Reports Google to Censor Videos By XL Recordings, Domino Records,...
This just in from Gizmodo regarding the YouTube Music Pass for which the major labels have already made a deal with Google. Indie labels however are being bullied by the tech giant with the threat of...
View ArticleYouTube steps up row with indie labels by confirming imminent video blocks |...
This story is taking on a lot of dimensions of what it might be and what it might mean, Music Ally tries to get some late breaking insight. Of particular note is the comment by Radiohead manager Brian...
View ArticleYouTube’s Ultimatum and The Economic Survival Of Musicians | Hypebot
By copyright and intellectual property attorney Wallace E. J. Collins III, Esq.. The most serious problem facing the artist community is that, at some point, it becomes economically unfeasible to...
View ArticleThe Pirate Bay must be fought for the sake of exploited musicians | The...
In Australia, there is very little that a musician can do to stop illegal streaming and downloading sites from using their work. These illegal sites make massive amounts of money from ads and nothing...
View ArticlePandora: money trumps morality, ran ads for anti-gay group.
Above Pandora CFO Mike Herring shows how down with the gays Pandora really is! The link goes to a custom Pandora radio station for “Oakland Pride Radio.” Wow that’s really going out on a limb...
View ArticleMusic Streaming is “just dressed-up piracy” says Rosanne Cash| Hypebot
Hypebot noticed this Facebook post from Rosanne Cash which echoes the sentiments of many artists, that streaming in it’s current form and economics is pretty much legitimized piracy… READ THE FULL POST...
View Articlec3 ”#thatsongwhen 10k people listened, the artist got paid $60 and the major...
c3, The Content Creators Coalition is enlisting musicians and songwriters to share their true stories of Spotify plays, payments and thoughts to raise awareness around unsustainable digital service...
View ArticleStreaming Is the Future, Spotify Is Not. Let’s talk Solutions.
It’s not that streaming can’t work. It can. It’s that Spotify is a bad business model that has unsustainable economics and exploits artists because it is a wall street financial instrument and not a...
View ArticleThis Weekend in NYC : Benefit for Content Creators Coalition (c3): Defend...
Saturday, October 18, 2014 @ 8:00 pm A Benefit Concert for c3 Featuring John Zorn, Eric Slick (Dr Dog), Steve Coleman, Marc Ribot, Henry Grimes, Marina Rosenfeld, Trevor Dunn, Brandon Seabrook, Satomi...
View ArticleLet The Heads Roll…More Genius From The Record Industry Braintrust or Mark...
Happy Halloween and welcome to the scary stupid post of the day… We’ve been saying this for a long time, music streaming math just doesn’t add up. Would someone please buy some calculators for the...
View ArticleJay Frank’s Magical Mystery Streaming Math… Or, Brotha Can Ya Spare A...
Music industry exec and blogger Jay Frank commented on our post BUT SPOTIFY IS PAYING 70% OF GROSS TO ARTISTS, ISN’T THAT FAIR? NO, AND HERE’S WHY…. Jay’s comment is typical of the thinking that has...
View ArticleHow to Fix Music Streaming in One Word, “Windows”… two more “Pay Gates”…
We’ve written about this before in two posts, Why Spotify is not Netflix (But Maybe It Should Be) and Streaming Is the Future, Spotify Is Not. Let’s talk Solutions. In Both posts we talk at length...
View ArticleBREAKING! Apple Announces Itunes One Dollar Albums and Ten Cent Song...
Satire – but not by much. Apple Computer announced today that for it’s Itunes Music Store to remain competitive in the digital distribution marketplace for music they would be changing their retail...
View ArticleAbsolute Must Read : How To Make Streaming Royalties Fair(er) | Medium
The record industry has completely disconnected the relationship between artists and their fans whereby the artists catalog is now an aggregated asset to leverage (the label’s) equity in a tech start...
View ArticleGrooveshark “Offline by Christmas”… | Digital Music News
Infringement should not be a business model. On September 29th, the United States District Court in Manhattan found Grooveshark guilty of massive copyright infringement, and specifically named CEO Sam...
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