[Exciting step toward implementing one of the key recommendations from the Austin Music Census!] The questions surrounding a movement to build multiple creative “hubs” – or possibly one single campus – for Austin’s arts and music communities are becoming somewhat clearer as proponents of those groups continue talks ahead of an August decision on the […]
I remember briefing the National Association of Attorneys General on Google’s support for sex trafficking and ad supported piracy in 2013. Nobody thought in 2013 that any safe harbor protected by the special interests would ever be cut back. The wheels of justice turn slowly, but they do turn. Or as Reverend King said many […]
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[Here’s a reblog from September 2012–the CDA safe harbor was finally cut back today.] Remember Google’s human trafficking problem? Let’s check in and see how successfully the company is hiding…I mean solving…that problem. (There will be screen shots that are easier to read at 200% so you may want to…
PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release: April 10, 2018 Media Contact: Charlotte Sellmyer NMPA MEMBERS SECURE CRITICAL VICTORY OVER WOLFGANG’S VAULT Washington, D.C. – After nearly three years of litigation, NMPA publisher members Sony/ATV and EMI Music Publishing, Warner/Chappell, ABKCO, peermusic, Spirit Music, and Imagem Music, have secured an important win in their ongoing efforts […] via […]
It took an extraordinarily long time for Facebook to acknowledge it needed licenses for the massive amounts of music that it encourages be posted to its profit. In case you were wondering why, the quotable Mark Zuckerberg gives some insight in a recent interview with Vox (which came through despite the “How do you deal […]
As we watch Daniel Ek gorge himself on stock market riches, who is either a royalty deadbeat or the savior of the music business depending on who you believe, here’s some numbers from the Washington Post to comfort you if you didn’t trade royalties for stock. The chart is based on The Trichordist’s “Streaming Price […]
Let’s be clear–one reason why there are problems with mechanical licensing in the US is the loophole created by the government consent decrees that block ASCAP and BMI from issuing a “unilicense” for both performances and streaming mechanicals. I have argued for years that PROs should be allowed to administer existing statutory mechanical licenses for […]
However much we dislike the way Apple uses music as a loss leader to see products, at least they don’t treat their users as a product. Which is more than you can say for Facebook, Google, Twitter and the entire Web 2.0 bunch.
Remember when Mark Zuckerberg was Time “Person of the Year” in 2010? Here’s a strange anecdote from the story in Time that accompanied their fawning over Zuck: On the afternoon of Nov. 16, 2010, Mark Zuckerberg was leading a meeting in the Aquarium, one of Facebook’s conference rooms, so named because it’s in the middle of a […]
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