The wisest among you learn to read your portents well You know there’s no need to hurry, it’s all downhill to hell… Don’t Stand Still, written by The Original Snakeboy, performed by Guy Forsyth on Unrepentant Schizophrenic Americana. GMR Formed Out of Pandora Lawsuits Against Songwriters Affiliated with ASCAP and BMI Yes, the portents are in the […]
As Business Insider tells us: In a research note sent out Tuesday, JPMorgan’s Doug Anmuth lowered estimates for Google’s revenues, citing concerns with “the transition from desktop to mobile search, continued margin compression, and increasing competition from Facebook.” Shortly after the note went out, Google stock hit a 52-week low. That was not a huge […]
The erudite Kristen V. Brown writing in SF Chronicle tells us that “Pandora tries to woo musicians with data, not royalties“, but it turns out that another Pandora charm offensive is failing. The one thing that Pandora could easily do that wouldn’t cost them a dime is of course too valuable for them to give […]
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Artist Rights Are Human Rights As we noted in “No Money For Old Pirates: Working People Unite In Support for Sens. Hatch and Leahy S.3804”, the headline for 2010 is the unification of working people and their unions in fighting piracy. The Songwriters Guild of America, the American Association of…
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As MTP readers will recall, in 2011 Google was able to buy their way out of a criminal prosecution for violating the Controlled Substances Act. The price? Chump change for Google, but it sounds like a lot of money: $500,000,000. Perhaps more importantly, Google promised not to do it…
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Every now and then I get these absurdly childlike emails from the Internet Association (which is yet another Google-dominated lobbying group in Washington). Here’s the latest: If what gets you up in the morning are patent trolls, you’re probably not going to relate to this next bit very well.…
Many years ago, Roger Davies walked into my office in the green bungalow on the A&M lot with a list of issues to cover for his artists. One was a license of “You Are So Beautiful” by Joe Cocker for a major motion picture. We came to have Joe on the label due to Jerry […]
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As we know, Google spends hundreds of millions every year to extend its influence through government, academia and the media. (Although sometimes with the media it extends its influence through theft wrapped in a bunch of excuses). The venerated good government group Public Citizen released a comprehensive report entitled…
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This post is a follow-on to “20 Questions for New Artists” by Chris Castle and Amy Mitchell available here. Great news, you got a track licensed for a weekly network TV show, what’s called “episodic television.” So now what? The network will issue a standard license which is probably…
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