Posts Tagged ‘MySpace Music’

It might be my own issues since I was passed over… MORE »

@revmatty: ...and you are...?

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It might be my own issues since I was passed over… MORE »

@revmatty: ...and you are...?

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After weeks of speculation that he had the job in… MORE »

'Cuz he did such a good job at MTV dealing with their digital media efforts.

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MySpace’s Branding Ineptitude Results In Another Casualty

Tucson electropoppers …Music Video? MORE »

Notfernuthin', but "...Music Video?" is a shitty band name.

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CNet is reporting that the long-vacant CEO post… MORE »

@botswana: Ha, the original CNet item had "she"s all over the place, and now there's not a pronoun to be seen!

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MySpace Music Warms To The Idea Of Indies (A Little)

There was some controversy around the role of indie labels in MySpace Music (the digital distribution center that was going to change the music world as we know it!); those labels wouldn’t receive the same equity in the site’s profits as the majors, essentially bringing the same stratification that exists in the old-time music business to the new music economy. MySpace still isn’t offering equity to those labels, but it did manage to sign an indie collective featuring such high-profile names as Animal Collective and… Chairlift? MORE »

@defendme: As far as I know, Merlin (as a bundler) handles their digital rights, if only for the UK. Physical distribution and the sort of rights Myspace needs agreements for are often two entirely different things.

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Oh, That’s Annoying

After my fourth stream of the new Lily Allen… MORE »

You listened to a Lily Allen song four times in a row?

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YouTube Starts Selling Music, I Think

Nearly two years ago, Google dropped $1.65 billion on YouTube. As one can imagine, the company’s imagineers are trying to come up with all sorts of fun ways to make money, including a doohickey that links to Amazon’s MP3 store and iTunes from videos. There are also plans to sell concert tickets and merch and other things. Sounds neat, right? MORE »

If it helps any, I got this email from youtube on the twenty-fifth of September regarding a video featuring a Gnarls Barkley track:

Your video has been identified by YouTube's Content Identification program as containing copyrighted content which UMG claims is theirs.

Your video is still available because UMG does not object to this content appearing on YouTube at this time. As long as UMG has a claim on your video, they will receive public statistics about your video, such as number of views. Viewers may also see advertising on your video's page.

Claim Details:
Copyright owner: UMG
Content claimed: Some or all of the audio content
Policy: Allow this content to remain on YouTube.

* Place advertisements on this video's watch page.

Applies to these locations:
Everywhere

UMG claimed this content as a part of the YouTube Content Identification program. YouTube allows partners to review YouTube videos for content to which they own the rights. Partners may use our automated video / audio matching system to identify their content, or they may manually review videos.

If you believe that this claim was made in error, or that you are otherwise authorized to use the content at issue, you can dispute this claim with UMG and view other options in the Video ID Matches section of your YouTube account. Please note that YouTube does not mediate copyright disputes between content owners. Learn more about video identification disputes.

Sincerely,
The YouTube Content Identification Team
© 2008 YouTube, LLC

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Someone In The Digital Music Business Making Sense Shocker!

I’m not ready to forgive Last.fm for what its application did to my computer (although I should probably update my Commodore 128, so that might not be their fault), but the social-music site’s COO, Spencer Hyman, talked to Forbes about the company’s place in the post-MySpace Music economy–and he might have established himself as one of the few sane voices in digital music in the process. MORE »

I agree. Last.fm has done an admirable if not spectacular job of growing, evolving and keeping their model relevant.

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Techcrunch’s Michael Arrington–a long proponent… MORE »

@alarusse: I don't know why people keep referring to the marketing aspect of free music. If it's already free, why bother marketing it?

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