Just How Much Do The Music Labels Not Understand?

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Music labels thrive while some online
music services may disappear

Music labels thrive while some online
music services may disappear 09/22/2004 09:13 PM
The music download business has been very good to the labels. For the stores, it's another story altogether.

Music Labels Wary of Apple?

Music Labels Wary of Apple? 05/05/2004 03:43 PM
According to the Independent, licensing issues may not be the only thing holding back iTunes Europe. The article claims that the five main record l...

Music Labels Focus On Ringtones

Music Labels Focus On Ringtones 08/18/2004 05:22 AM
It appears that the music labels, rather than actually looking to figure out how they're going to deal with this digital music issue, are, instead, simply walking naively into the next mess. Since they haven't quite figured out really how to make downloadable music work yet (though, they keep hoping they have) they're turning to the new revenue source they never expected: ringtones. They've suddenly noticed that kids are paying $2.50 for a fragment of a song they won't pay a $1 to download completely, which leads to things like Warner Brothers actually advertising ringtones rather than the regular music itself. WB is now specifically advertising ringtones from the next Green Day album, including the lovely one with a member of the band saying: "It's your mother. I know. She's with me." It's no surprise that the labels are focusing on this market, given the basic economics, but they seem to be doing so under the assumption that they won't face the same problem they faced with file sharing. In fact, with the release of things like Xingtone, the labels are going to have increasing difficulty holding onto this market. But rather than figuring out ways to deal with it, they're just jumping on a bandwagon while it's hot. It's a short term strategy from the ultimate short-term thinkers.

Watchdog Sues Music Labels

Watchdog Sues Music Labels 01/06/2004 05:42 AM
A Belgian consumer advocacy group sues the music industry's largest labels for selling CDs that won't play on your car stereo or computer.

Music Labels Aim to Pocket a Comeback
with New CD

Music Labels Aim to Pocket a Comeback
with New CD 06/21/2004 02:20 PM

Music Labels Look TO Corral iPod

Music Labels Look TO Corral iPod 06/22/2005 02:01 AM

By launching the copy-protected CDs without iPod compatibility, the labels are raising the stakes in an ongoing conflict between Apple and the rest of the music business, which wants the tech company to open its proprietary iPod and let others sell antipiracy-protected songs that work on the device. By Ben Fritz, Variety.com

Music labels tap downloading networks

Music labels tap downloading networks 11/15/2003 03:16 AM
globetechnology.com Nov 15 2003 2:43AM ET

Music Labels Tap Downloading Networks

Music Labels Tap Downloading Networks 11/14/2003 07:32 PM
AP via Newsday Nov 14 2003 6:28PM ET

Music Labels Aim to Pocket a Comeback
with New CD (Reuters)

Music Labels Aim to Pocket a Comeback
with New CD (Reuters) 06/21/2004 09:25 AM
Reuters - Some of the world's largest record companies are testing a new music format in Europe known as the pocket CD to spin new life into faltering music singles.

Labels seek end to 99c music per song
download

Labels seek end to 99c music per song
download 04/09/2004 04:13 PM
Too cheap

Major Music Labels Promote New CD Format

Major Music Labels Promote New CD Format 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
Consumers will soon see a new digital music format in their local stores. Called DataPlay digital media, these news discs are smaller than CDs and represent the music industry's latest attempt to distribute music in a copy-protected format. Three of the top five record companies -- Universal Music, EMI Group and BMG -- have already signed on.

Music labels should be celebrating the
Grokster decision

Music labels should be celebrating the
Grokster decision 08/23/2004 06:36 AM
Cory Doctorow: Jim Griffin, founder of the Pho music/tech mailing list, weighs in with an impressive and passionate email about the P2P-legalizing Grokster decision and what it means for music labels.

Here's why you should applaud today's decision: It brings us closer to monetizing peered sharing and putting real money in the pockets of artists, labels, publishers, and other rights holders. How? Because it moves them one step closer to the correct judgment, which is that it is now impractical and inefficient to control the quantity and destiny of digits -- especially so those that carry mass media like music -- in the increasingly friction-free world of digitization. When that judgment is drawn, service licensing begins. Until that judgment is drawn, product-based control continues in vain. Publishers long ago accepted technology and license it today -- they licensed Napster -- and their revenues are climbing; sound recording companies continue to resist every new technology and refuse to license, and their revenues are falling. This decision will benefit the music business the same way getting arrested for drunk driving benefits an alcoholic, summoning forth the day of reckoning and hastening rehabilitation.

This judgment doesn't destroy distribution -- it enables licensing. How? It reminds one of the parties in the licensing battle that one of the vines it was relying upon to to cling to the past will no longer be viable. Hyper-efficient delivery destroys distribution, meaning that the just-in-time delivery of digits will eventually destroy their distribution entirely. That is a ways off, but from what I'm hearing back-channel it is not too far off, as Apple prepares its tiny wireless iPod with no hard-drive but enhanced Wi-Max (metropolitan-wide high-bandwidth wireless) connectivity; it won't destroy downloading over night, but it will take a whack at its market share, and slowly but surely shift the market away from distribution/downloading and towards delivery/streaming.

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Apple Strikes Deal With 3 Music Labels
(AP)

Apple Strikes Deal With 3 Music Labels
(AP) 07/21/2004 07:52 PM
AP - Apple Computer Inc. has struck licensing deals with three of Europe's largest independent music labels, ending a discord that would have kept many local favorites off the new iTunes Music Store in Britain, France and Germany.

EU music labels seek copyright expansion

EU music labels seek copyright expansion 06/17/2005 07:14 PM
Seeking to achieve parity with US copyright law, EU Big Music demands greater protection for European artists. Term of Copyright arms race to follow.

Music Labels Look to DVD's as Sales of
CD's Decline

Music Labels Look to DVD's as Sales of
CD's Decline 12/27/2004 01:21 PM
Sales of music-related DVD's are on the rise, a welcome piece of news for major labels still suffering from declines in CD sales.

Labels seek end to 99c music per song
download | The Register

Labels seek end to 99c music per song
download | The Register 04/12/2004 11:33 AM
Labels seek end to 99c music per song download The Register .. current online price

theregister.com/2004/04/09/pigopolist_price_hike
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Record Labels Change Their Tune On Free
Web Music

Record Labels Change Their Tune On Free
Web Music 06/01/2004 09:55 PM
"A year ago, there were certainly labels that weren't willing to release any single prior to the CD being released," said Eddy Cue, vice president for applications and Internet services at Apple, which operates the iTunes download store. "I'm not aware of anybody who falls into that equation today. Everybody gets it now." By Chris Nelson, MacNewsWorld (via MyAppleMenu)

" Labels seek end to 99c music per song
download | The Register"

" Labels seek end to 99c music per song
download | The Register" 04/13/2004 09:53 AM

Euro iTunes stores to get music from
indie labels

Euro iTunes stores to get music from
indie labels 07/12/2004 05:55 PM
Apple is close to a deal with independent record labels that will allow its European iTunes Music Stores to sell their tracks, The Times newspaper reported on Monday...

AudioLunchbox indie music service adds
100 new labels

AudioLunchbox indie music service adds
100 new labels 05/20/2004 07:17 AM
AudioLunchbox.com, a music download service that features independent artists and labels, announced Wednesday that it has added 100 new labels and plans to have 250,000 additional tracks online by mid-July. The service features higher music downloads encoded at higher bitrates than is available at the iTunes Music Store, available in the user's choice of either MP3 or Ogg Vorbis formats.

Apple strikes deal with Euro music
labels

Apple strikes deal with Euro music
labels 07/24/2004 09:22 AM
Boston Globe Jul 24 2004 1:07PM GMT

Music Labels To Use New Copy Protection
To Prevent CD Burning

Music Labels To Use New Copy Protection
To Prevent CD Burning 06/02/2004 10:10 AM
As if anyone didn't see this one coming... The various music labels are now experimenting with new copy protection technology on (what they'd still like to call) CDs that would limit the number of times you could burn a copy of the CD. Basically, they'll now be spending more money (which will be passed on to consumers) to make sure the product you buy does less. Doesn't seem like the greatest of business strategies, but the industry isn't known for its longterm thinking. In the meantime, it will take less than a day for the real counterfeiters to get around this technology, and the only people who will actually be inconvenienced are people trying to burn a copy for fair use, who will suddenly find they can't do what is perfectly legal to do.

Sony, Bertelsmann agree to merge music
labels

Sony, Bertelsmann agree to merge music
labels 11/07/2003 08:52 AM
Will the anti-trust troops say yes?

Apple Strikes Deal With Euro Music
Labels (AP)

Apple Strikes Deal With Euro Music
Labels (AP) 07/23/2004 01:22 PM
AP - Apple Computer Inc. has struck licensing deals with three of Europe's largest independent music labels, ending a discord that would have kept many local favorites off the new iTunes Music Store in Britain, France and Germany.

Record labels wary of Apple's music
dominance

Record labels wary of Apple's music
dominance 05/05/2004 05:14 PM
According to The Independent, record labels in Europe are dragging their feet in licensing songs to Apple because they fear the success of a Euro iTunes Music Store could dictate which artists succeed or fail by deciding which to promote more...

Yahoo! News - Music Labels Tap
Downloading Networks

Yahoo! News - Music Labels Tap
Downloading Networks 11/19/2003 08:04 AM
they're selling that information to the recording industry .. Recording Industry's Unexpected Benefit from P2P .. mostaccurate measure of song popularity to date .. reported by AP .. reporting .. Go Figure .. report

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Music labels monitor P2P nets to list
most popular songs

Music labels monitor P2P nets to list
most popular songs 11/18/2003 05:58 AM
Chart attack

AudioLunchbox indie music service adds
100 new labels (MacCentral)

AudioLunchbox indie music service adds
100 new labels (MacCentral) 05/20/2004 07:09 AM
MacCentral - AudioLunchbox.com, a music download service that features independent artists and labels, announced Wednesday that it has added 100 new labels and plans to have 250,000 additional tracks online by mid-July. The service features higher music downloads encoded at higher bitrates than is available at the iTunes Music Store, available in the user's choice of either MP3 or Ogg Vorbis formats.

Music labels talking price hike for
online tunes

Music labels talking price hike for
online tunes 04/22/2004 10:38 AM
The record industry thinks that 99 cents a song (which is what Apple charges at the iTunes Music Store) is too cheap, and the five major labels (Universal Music Group, EMI, BMG, Sony and Warner Music) are discussing a song price hike ranging from US$1.25 to $2.49 per song, Matt Buchanan writes in a Washington Square News column...

Apple, European Independent Music Labels
Set Deal (Reuters)

Apple, European Independent Music Labels
Set Deal (Reuters) 07/21/2004 04:50 PM
Reuters - Apple Computer Inc.(AAPL.O) clinched licensing deals with a trio of Europe's independent music labels to bring acts such as The White Stripes and Basement Jaxx to iTunes Europe customers for downloading, the company said on Wednesday.

PluggedIn: Ringtones make sweet music
for labels (Reuters)

PluggedIn: Ringtones make sweet music
for labels (Reuters) 06/24/2005 03:06 PM
Reuters - Ringtones, those song snippets that announce incoming mobile-phone calls, are now making noise at the top of the pop charts and on the bottom line of multibillion-dollar businesses.

Peter Gabriel, Brian Eno want to sell
their music online not to record labels

Peter Gabriel, Brian Eno want to sell
their music online not to record labels 01/26/2004 10:58 PM
Canadian Press via Canada.com Jan 27 2004 2:45AM GMT

Major indie music labels join European
iTunes stores

Major indie music labels join European
iTunes stores 07/21/2004 11:18 AM
Apple today announced that it has signed licensing agreements with three of the largest European independent music labels, Beggars Group, Sanctuary Records Group and V2, adding tens of thousands of additional tracks from leading artists to the iTunes Music Store in the UK, France and Germany...

Operators and labels slam plans for
computer-to-mobile music transfer

Operators and labels slam plans for
computer-to-mobile music transfer 09/16/2004 02:58 PM
New Media Age Sep 16 2004 6:49PM GMT

Local Online Firm Settles Copyright
Dispute with Music labels

Local Online Firm Settles Copyright
Dispute with Music labels 08/31/2004 02:24 AM
Yonhap News Aug 31 2004 6:06AM GMT

Weed Music - 96Decibels.com Launches
"Send a Song" a Peer to Peer Email
Marketing Channel for Musicians and
Labels

Weed Music - 96Decibels.com Launches
"Send a Song" a Peer to Peer Email
Marketing Channel for Musicians and
Labels 04/01/2005 03:44 AM
While the media watches Streamcast (Grokster, Morpheus) defend itself in court from the legal wranglings of the major entertainment industry players, a new breed of file sharer is emerging. This file sharer actually owns the right to redistribute the artists music and in so doing is rewarded for the effort – completely legal and even encouraged by the artists and their labels. [PRWEB Apr 1, 2005]

Something you would need a TV to
understand

Something you would need a TV to
understand 05/04/2004 02:27 AM
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I wish I didn't understand

I wish I didn't understand 04/09/2004 04:09 PM
Just a quick note to my few friends in Spain... I had my first chance to visit your beautiful country...

Why I'd like to understand bl0gging

Why I'd like to understand bl0gging 09/18/2004 05:35 AM
People ask me often what is a "blog". It annoys me to no end that I cannot give a simple answer, because it tells me how little I understand of the phenomenon.

A big discussion point in Finland at the moment is that "blogs" have been translated as "internet diaries". There is an danger of confusion here: If I tell you that I play go, and that it is an "old chinese boardgame", you will immediately understand its nature. But if I say that "I blog, and it's like writing a diary on the web", your next question will be "do you really write about your sex life in public?" And that is because the word "diary" has a private connotation. Reading someone else's diary is peeping and wrong. Reading things that someone else published in the hopes that someone would read them and give feedback, is not. Diary = private, blog = public.

Most of the significant weblogs in the world are not diaries. But that's another subject for a later day.

Perhaps I am an elitist, purist and academic. But I would still really, really like to be explain to my grandmother what it is that I care so much about.

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