Radiohead’s Thom Yorke has a striking interview in the Guardian in which he sums up the band’s realizations about what David Lowery calls the “New Boss” reality: “[Big Tech] have to keep commodifying things to keep the share price up, but in doing so they have made all content, including music and newspapers, worthless, in […]
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While it remains to be seen exactly what the contours of a deal might be, Zoë Keating‘s advocacy of data sharing with artists by online music retailers is getting some traction. Beats is making positive noises in that direction and I would expect others to follow shortly. This is something of a privacy law challenge, […]
IAGO By Janus, I think no… Othello, Act 1, Scene 2, by William Shakespeare Information Wants to be Monetized In an excellent analysis, Ben Sisario of the New York Times almost puts his finger on Google’s problem with professional artists. He identifies both sides of what would appear to be a kind of split […]
Greg Sandoval is one of the great reporters on tech and music. While I don’t always agree with him, I think he’s fair and one thing I know for sure–he is old school when it comes to getting facts and sources right. So when Sandoval says Spotify is going back to the well to drive […]
Après moi, le déluge Attributed to King Louis XV of France Right after Google’s YouTube acquisition, Googler Zahava Levine appeared on a bar association panel in Los Angeles and sneered at the assembled entertainment lawyers that even though YouTube was using their clients’ works without permission, YouTube would continue to rely on the DMCA notice […]
The SF Music Tech conference ended this week, an excellent platform for Zoë Keating, more later about her ideas for online music services sharing fan data with the artists they exploit. It was refreshing to see SF Music Tech continuing the theme started last year by David Lowery. The usual old school “Deep Thoughts” kumbaya […]
We’ve all heard the various canards from the freehadis–you can’t compete with free (meaning you can’t compete with advertising-supported piracy), and as recently as yesterday in the Guardian, the explanation for piracy is that music and movie companies haven’t “updated their business model” (whatever in the world that means), so they deserve to be stolen […]
MTP readers no doubt saw the coverage on last month’s installment of the USC-Annenberg Innovation Lab transparency report that identified ad networks that facilitated IP theft. Now we see that this month’s report names brands. You can read all about it here. Here’s a sample of the top brands driving brand sponsored piracy and theft […]
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