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And To Whom They Must Pay Royalties In Order To Sell Music In Their Stores
In order for a digital music service like AmazonMP3 and others to allow a song to be downloaded, it must get two separate licenses and make two separate payments.
The licenses are:
-One from the person or entity that controls the recordings (like a record label)
-One from the person or entity that represents the rights of the songwriter
Keep reading on blog.tunecore.com
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As the 90s came to a close, the business of music began to change profoundly. New technology allowed artists to record and produce their own music and music videos, and the internet became a free-for-all distribution platform for musicians to promote themselves to audiences across the world. The result was an influx of artists onto the cultural scene, and audiences were left wondering how to sort through them all. In this episode we discuss these massive changes, and reveal how music blogs and websites have arisen as the new arbiters of quality.
Featuring:
Jon Cohen, Co-Founder, FADER Label
Ryan Dombal, Senior Editor, Pitchfork
Blake Whitman, VP of Creative Development, Vimeo
Anthony Volodkin, Founder, Hype Machine
Music by:
Flex Blur: soundcloud.com/flex-blur
Mindthings: jamendo.com/en/artist/mindthings
Dub Terminator: jamendo.com/en/artist/DUB_TERMINATOR
Nestor Gonzalez: jamendo.com/en/artist/Nestor_Gonzalez
Special Location thanks to Converse Rubber Tracks Studio
Artists from Music Video Section:
Rihanna – We Found Love – vimeo.com/33123323
Miss Eaves – Diva Pop – vimeo.com/34415367
My First Earthquake – We Float – vimeo.com/31941995
Moullinex – Catalina – vimeo.com/19723907
Sleigh Bells – Riot Rhythm – vimeo.com/16668477
Morning Teleportation – Expanding Anyway – vimeo.com/14304059
Da Silva – Les Stations Balnearies – vimeo.com/33569324
Goose – Synrise – vimeo.com/20913850
Tim and Puma Mimi – Perspective – vimeo.com/11742651
DYE – Fantasy – vimeo.com/30798517
Dan Wholey – Amateur Rocketry – vimeo.com/29672263
Health – We Are Water – vimeo.com/10818338
Colours – Colourfornia – vimeo.com/26906724
Dancing Pigeons – Ritalin – vimeo.com/13639493
The Naked And Famous – The Sun – vimeo.com/27790801
The Limousines – vimeo.com/18665622
Flying Lotus – Kill Your Co-Workers – vimeo.com/15568767
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Twitter: @pbsoffbook
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Produced by Kornhaber Brown: kornhaberbrown.com
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Bandcamp has just launched the Bandcamp Facebook app, which puts all the functionality and content of your Bandcamp site into a tab within Facebook. Here’s how to set it up.
They also recently introduced the bio, photo and links sidebar. Read all about it here.
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The digital music industry is set to double from $7.4 billion to $20.1 billion in 2015, according to a new study. That’s a compound annual growth rate of 22.1% over the period. Subscriptions will be the fastest growing segment, growing at a compound annual rate of 60.8% to 2015.
In terms of digital music market value, the US, Japan, UK, France and Germany are the key digital music markets, together accounting for 79.5% of the global market in 2010. keep reading on hypebot.com
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This map provides a detailed summary of the business flow within the music industry. Look closely at how and where money changes hands and try to work out where you might fit in. Read more on musicthinktank.com
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Watch Facebook’s F8 Conference today here live at 10AM PT / 1PM ET today.
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Just weeks after launching in the U.S., Spotify has fallen victim to a uniquely American phenomenon: an out-of-the-blue patent infringement lawsuit.
Read more on www.hypebot.com
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TuneCore 2.0
The 34 Improvements in TuneCore 2.0
Here’s the list:
- • distribution into unlimited stores for every release (as opposed to a per-store charge)
- • unlimited songs on an album (as opposed to a per-song charge)
- • faster live times
- • marketing and promotion of releases to the stores for placement
- • marketing and promotion of artists and their music to brands
- • Apple Artist Ping pages
- • streaming media players which tie into YouTube/Twitter/Flickr, and much more
- • faster takedowns
- • faster accounting periods
- • changes to album art, song titles, genres, and so on, after a release was already live in a store
- • more digital stores
- • faster (and simultaneous) uploads
- • the ability to playback a song after it’s uploaded
- • accepting different lossless codecs on the songs (.wav, .flac, and so on)
- • moving iTunes trending reports to daily from weekly
- • a mobile app that can display iTunes trending data
- • educational information on copyright/publishing
- • faster response times from Artist Support
- • without paying for distribution, the ability to upload music and art and have us store it
- • the ability to download assets or send them around in a SoundCloud-type way
- • the ability to give away a song for free in exchange for an email address
- • tracking streams from the TuneCore streaming media player
- • delivery of a .PDF booklet bundled with a release
- • an automated system that pre-IDs any entry errors which might have Apple reject the release
- • an artist MySpace Music ID finder that auto-connects the release to your TuneCore distribution so you get paid on streams
- • huge increases in clarity and organization of sales data display, showing up to 14 places to the right of the decimal with custom reports
- • TuneCore-branded compilation albums made available for free download via Amazon and other places
- • TuneCore charts
- • direct deposit of revenue into bank accounts
- • for those that want it, data feeds to label A&R staff
- • master/synch placement
- • volume discount packages
- • Twitter customer support (a late addition)
- • mobile sales app
- • daily iTunes reports (its currently a manual process but we should be able to automate shortly)
Flat rates are coming soon:
- • $49.99 a year for an album (unlimited songs and stores)
- • $9.99 per year for a single (unlimited stores)
- • $9.99 per year for a ringtone
find out more on www.tunecore.com
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As the first main slide of this exclusive presentation shows, over the past three months, over 60% of survey respondents declared they’d watched music videos on a computer, versus less than 20% who had legally downloaded music.
Read more on blog.midem.com
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Google publicly promised an ambitious music service including subscriptions and a cloud music locker months ago, but talks with the labels appear to have stalled. Google Vice President Andy Rubin says the company isn’t about to give up, though they aren’t interested in just creating another iTunes.
read more on hypebot.com
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