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LA Weekly: News: Music Industry Puts
Troops in the Streets

LA Weekly: News: Music Industry Puts
Troops in the Streets 01/10/2004 01:33 AM
Music Industry Puts Troops in the Streets .. begin making street raids in California .. taken their fight to the streets .. 'what a bunch of assholes'

laweekly.com/ink/04/07/news-sullivan.php
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Music Industry Seeks Digital Radio
Copying Limits

Music Industry Seeks Digital Radio
Copying Limits 06/11/2004 02:49 PM

Music Industry Seeks Digital Radio
Copying Limits (Reuters)

Music Industry Seeks Digital Radio
Copying Limits (Reuters) 06/11/2004 12:54 PM
Reuters - Digital radio broadcasts that bring CD-quality sound to the airwaves could lead to unfettered song copying if protections are not put in place, a recording-industry trade group warned on Friday.

Music industry seeks rules to curb
piracy via digital radio (AFP)

Music industry seeks rules to curb
piracy via digital radio (AFP) 06/17/2004 01:12 PM
AFP - The music industry's main trade association is seeking government rules to require digital radio to use technology to prevent illegal copying and piracy of songs.

Hollywood and the music industry face
off against the heavy hitters of the
high-tech industry in a Supreme Cou

Hollywood and the music industry face
off against the heavy hitters of the
high-tech industry in a Supreme Cou 03/27/2005 03:49 PM
Baku Today Mar 27 2005 5:57PM GMT

GotRadio Partners with All Headline News
Corp to Provide Targeted Entertainment
News Headlines for its New Internet
Radio Portal and Music Membership
Subscription Service

GotRadio Partners with All Headline News
Corp to Provide Targeted Entertainment
News Headlines for its New Internet
Radio Portal and Music Membership
Subscription Service 06/08/2004 02:59 AM
GotRadio selects All Headline News to provide up to the minute entertainment headlines on www.gotradio.com. [PRWEB Jun 8, 2004]

New PC-software supports consumers of
music downloads in disadvantages of
music industry

New PC-software supports consumers of
music downloads in disadvantages of
music industry 09/13/2004 03:06 AM
German company RapidSolution Software has released the Windows software Tunebite. Music tracks purchased from the Internet are copy-protected and involve important restrictions for many users when they are played back. With the option to re-record them while they are played, Tunebite legally provides the user with new music files without restrictions. This ensures that music bought from Apple iTunes, Sony Connect, AOL or other music platforms in the Internet can be played back and listened to from everywhere. [PRWEB Sep 13, 2004]

Music Industry Welcomes Federal
Government Commitment To Copyright
Revisions QRS Music Technologies, Inc.
Intr

Music Industry Welcomes Federal
Government Commitment To Copyright
Revisions QRS Music Technologies, Inc.
Intr 03/25/2005 07:11 AM
Music Industry News Network Mar 25 2005 7:53AM GMT

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Music |
Ferdinand win Mercury Music Prize

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Music |
Ferdinand win Mercury Music Prize 09/08/2004 11:05 AM
Franz Ferdinand wins the Mercury Music Prize, the top UK music award

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3636272.stm
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Can VCs Change The Music Industry?

Can VCs Change The Music Industry? 06/02/2004 09:37 PM
People sometimes like to compare record execs to venture capitalists, but one major difference between the two is that, at least VCs realize that the nature of business (even their own) tends to change over time. The record execs still seem to want to deny that. Perhaps things will start to change, now that VCs are starting to get into the music business, looking to build up companies that can challenge the old guard with new technologies and new business models. Of course, the last time VCs tried to get involved with new technologies and business models for the music biz, those VCs got sued by the music biz.

Music industry promises no P2P let-up

Music industry promises no P2P let-up 12/19/2003 07:38 PM
Personal Computer World Dec 19 2003 5:59PM ET

Music industry sues 477 more

Music industry sues 477 more 04/29/2004 01:59 AM
Boston Globe Apr 29 2004 5:53AM GMT

But that Would Have Killed the Music
Industry, Right?

But that Would Have Killed the Music
Industry, Right? 06/05/2005 11:24 PM

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“ ‘We propose to acquire the rights to digitally duplicate and store THE BEST of every record company's difficult-to-move Quality Catalog Items [Q.C.I.], store them in a central processing location, and have them accessible by phone or cable TV, directly patchable into the user's home taping appliances, with the option of direct digital-to-digital transfer to F-1….

All accounting for royalty payments, billing to the customer, etc. would be automatic, built into the initial software for the system.

The consumer has the option of subscribing to one or more Interest Categories, charged at a monthly rate, without regard for the quantity of music he or she decides to tape.’

-- Fran k Zappa invents Rhapsody, Napster in 1983” [Good Morning Silicon Valley, via Shawn]

Music Industry Sues 493 Over Downloads

Music Industry Sues 493 Over Downloads 05/24/2004 04:05 PM
AP via Los Angeles Times May 24 2004 8:42PM GMT

Help the music industry figure out which
way to jump

Help the music industry figure out which
way to jump 12/14/2003 09:53 PM
Aaron Swartz has started a blog to record and discuss "alternative compensation schemes" -- business models for music in the era of P2P nets.

Here's the proposal in a nutshell: Some group of people pay a small fee (like a couple dollars a month). In return, they can download whatever they want, however they want. We track what is downloaded and then distribute the money received, in proportion, to the people responsible for the songs. Everybody wins: users get all the music they want, software developers can continue innovating, and the industry gets paid.

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Music Industry Warms To Downloads

Music Industry Warms To Downloads 09/08/2004 09:03 AM
A Japanese version of Apple's iTunes has been unable to get started due to opposition from the local recording industry, which deems its copy protection measures to be inadequate and has refused to offer its music catalog. By Asahi Shimbun (via MyAppleMenu)

Music industry extends piracy war

Music industry extends piracy war 04/12/2005 07:42 AM
More than 900 illegal file-sharers face legal action as the music industry steps up its anti-piracy war.

The Big Picture: The Music Industry in
Review

The Big Picture: The Music Industry in
Review 05/19/2004 06:01 AM
The Big Picture: The Music Industry in Review .. Here's that one, long sentence

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New Business Models For The Music
Industry?

New Business Models For The Music
Industry? 09/15/2004 04:23 AM
NPR is running a three-part series looking at potential new business models for the music industry in the face of the ongoing changes brought about by digital technologies for the creation and distribution of music. The three business models are all interesting, and some are already being tried, but it seems unlikely that any will get all that far. The first goes back to times past and looks at the idea of "patronage." The idea is to get a wealthy individual (or, more likely, company) to pay for musical output. The NPR piece suggests that this could be modified as a way for hardcore fans to repay a band, but another interesting concept could be corporate sponsorship. The second idea is bringing back the always popular, but often discr edited, idea of micropayments. Without rehashing all the old arguments, micropayments only work in some very specific circumstances, and do more to shrink a musicians potential market than to grow it. The final idea is some sort of general tax on ISPs, which has strong proponents but raises all sorts of problems concerning why some users are subsidizing others and who gets how much money. Of course, there are other business models that could work today, don't require a huge change in the way things are done, and gives people real value for their money: recognize that the music is a promotional tool for other stuff (professional liner notes, fan clubs, concert tickets, clothing, access to the band, backstage passes, you name it) and suddenly the state of the recording industry doesn't seem so dire.

Recording Industry leaking Music

Recording Industry leaking Music 12/05/2003 02:12 AM
This is very funny as the recording industry continues to support the RIAA it seems some of it's industry insiders...

IMesh to Pay Music Industry in
Settlement (AP)

IMesh to Pay Music Industry in
Settlement (AP) 07/20/2004 07:53 PM
AP - An Israeli technology company that makes popular software for downloading music over the Internet agreed Tuesday to pay $4.1 million to the recording industry for copyright infringement, a significant victory for music labels.

Music Industry P2P Claims Dismantled

Music Industry P2P Claims Dismantled 04/10/2005 05:52 AM

Music Industry Looks East to Tackle
Piracy

Music Industry Looks East to Tackle
Piracy 04/12/2005 06:10 AM
Music firms are launching their first lawsuits in Asia as the crackdown on net piracy continues. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry announced this morning it had filed 963 lawsuits, with some of them in Japan. Other countries targeted this time round include the Netherlands, Finland, Ireland and Iceland.

Music sales in Japan have fallen by nearly a third in the past five years - the country has the world's second-largest market for music. John Kennedy, IFPI chairman and chief executive, said: "The industry has decided this is the time to act. The Japanese are law-abiding citizens and it may be this delivers the short, sharp jolt that we need there."

The lawsuits come as legal online alternatives such as Napster and iTunes continue to expand. The industry is also calling for ISPs to take a more pro-active approach by going after those who illegally upload material themselves.

View: IFPI | IFPI announcement
View: Napster | iTunes
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Music Industry Sues More Computer Users

Music Industry Sues More Computer Users 04/28/2004 09:30 PM
SiliconValley.com Apr 29 2004 1:52AM GMT

Will Mobile Phones Save The Music
Industry?

Will Mobile Phones Save The Music
Industry? 01/27/2004 12:40 PM
Here's a meme that's been growing rapidly over the last six months or so: mobile phones will help save the music industry via things like ringtones. Certainly, there's plenty of evidence that lots of people (generally the younger market who is considered the "Napster Generation") have been willing to pay for ringtones. However, what amazes me about this is that people seem to ignore history. Mobile phone platforms are increasingly being pushed to open up, and creating a file sharing service for ringtones is easy enough. The one thing that ringtones have going for them is that (unlike with the regular music industry) there's already authorized downloads offered. Still, assuming that ringtone file sharing for free won't occur seems to be a bit short sighted. Besides, it's still difficult to figure out how long companies can get away with charging people to make their phones ring differently.

Music Industry Puts Troops in the
Streets

Music Industry Puts Troops in the
Streets 01/17/2004 10:48 PM
According to a report by Ben Sullivan in LA Weekly, the Recording Industry Association of America is using a new tactic against those who distribute unauthorised copies of music from the RIAA on the streets of the US. It appears that the RIAA is allowing suspected copyright violators to be mislead into believing that its own agents are really policemen.

Music industry sues 477 more computer
users

Music industry sues 477 more computer
users 04/28/2004 05:36 PM

Music Industry Sues More Computer Users
(AP)

Music Industry Sues More Computer Users
(AP) 04/28/2004 02:42 PM
AP - The recording industry sued 477 more computer users Wednesday, including dozens of college students at schools in 11 states, accusing them of illegally sharing music across the Internet.

Maney: Meet the next big threat to the
music industry

Maney: Meet the next big threat to the
music industry 04/06/2005 04:39 AM
USA Today Apr 6 2005 8:47AM GMT

Music Industry DRM Firms Want You To Pay
To Restrict Your Fair Use

Music Industry DRM Firms Want You To Pay
To Restrict Your Fair Use 06/02/2004 02:58 PM

You know, I wrote this big, stupid rant (which is after the jump if you really want to read it) but let me cut to the quick: The music industry just took your lunch money, and now they want you to pay them to do it again.
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Industry Sues 532 Music File
Distributors (AP)

Industry Sues 532 Music File
Distributors (AP) 01/22/2004 10:21 AM
AP - The recording industry on Wednesday sued 532 computer users it said were illegally distributing songs over the Internet, the first lawsuits since a federal appeals court blocked the use of special copyright subpoenas to identify those being targeted.

UK Music Industry Stomps on Imported CD
Seller

UK Music Industry Stomps on Imported CD
Seller 01/22/2004 10:21 AM

Michael Song on Chinese music industry

Michael Song on Chinese music industry 09/10/2004 12:01 AM

We just had a very interesting meeting with Michael Song, managing director of Taihe Rye Music. He is Chinese, but spent six years at Texas A&M and returned to China in 1996 to work in the budding music scene in China. He is in the agency business and represents the #1 male musician in China.

He explained that the legal music CD business in China is about 5%. In other words, 95% of the CDs on the market are pirate copies. He said that it was the teenagers who were passionate about the artists and liked to hang out in the record shops that tended to buy the legal CDs. Even in the top artists, CD sales only represented 30% or so of their income, while less known musicians actually lost money on CDs. The CDs are important, however, as a marketing and promotion vehicle.

Because the mass media is state owned, it is difficult to use the mass media for promoting artists. For this reason, it appears that the successful artists in China tend to be more talented, singer songwriters who tend to be popular longer compared to artists in markets such as Hong Kong and Taiwan where pop idol style artists are highly promoted and often lack talent or long term potential.

He told us that his artists got revenue share deals with percentages a bit worse than their counterparts in the US, but much better than in Japan. Most of the revenue comes from advertising/endorsements and concerts, but he is aggressively working on new business models involving alternative media such as the Internet and mobile devices.

My "take-away" was that in a market where the record industry basically doesn't function, artists and agents are going to be pushing the cutting edge of music business models and might in fact discover the post DRM/RIAA business model before Hollywood does. Obviously, it helps to have a huge growing market such as China, but I think it would make sense for artists and music industry people to keep an eye on China for breakthroughs in the music business.

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Record Industry Sues 493 More U.S. Music
Swappers

Record Industry Sues 493 More U.S. Music
Swappers 05/27/2004 10:48 AM
?A U.S. music industry group said Monday it had sued 493 more people for copyright infringement as part of its campaign to stop consumers from copying music over the Internet. The Recording Industry Association of America has now sued 2,947 individuals since last September in an attempt to discourage people from copying songs through ?peer to peer? networks like Kazaa and LimeWire.?

Music Industry Pins Hopes on Downloads
(AP)

Music Industry Pins Hopes on Downloads
(AP) 01/11/2004 12:27 PM
AP - After four straight years of declining CD sales, the recording industry is hanging hopes for a recovery on music fans going digital — and being willing to pay for it.

Music Industry Pins Hopes on Downloads

Music Industry Pins Hopes on Downloads 01/11/2004 03:45 PM
San Jose Mercury News Jan 11 2004 2:09PM ET

Internet2 legally hacked by music
industry

Internet2 legally hacked by music
industry 04/14/2005 02:08 AM

Music industry pins hopes on downloads

Music industry pins hopes on downloads 01/11/2004 03:45 PM
Boston Globe Jan 11 2004 1:47PM ET

Music industry sues 532 in piracy suits

Music industry sues 532 in piracy suits 01/22/2004 10:16 AM
globetechnology.com Jan 22 2004 2:08PM GMT
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