RIGHTS: What the Music Industry Should Do About Copyright

Day 34: Bomb the Music Industry

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Bomb the Music Industry! in the basement at The Ghost House.

RIGHTS: What the Music Industry Should Do About Copyright
This guest post is by Charlotta Hedman (@fjoms), a journalist who blogs for the Music 4.5 project, a series of events for the tech and music industries. Copyright is confusing. Is it working, isn’t it working and if it isn’t working, what should be done about it? We decided that the best way to make some sense of this complicated and often vicious debate was to ask experts and commentators what …
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GENERAL MUSIC INDUSTRY: A Look at the Death of the Record Industry in 1980
If you had your doubts that the ‘sky is falling’ on the record industry, this video will seal the deal. Growth is slowing; there aren’t enough super-sellers to bring revenue back. Albums are over shipped and stores are sending them back. Fans have access to too much free music. Rock is no longer viable. Fans just don’t have to buy record anymore in order to hear music and the industry is in hard …
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Google Launches Music Service…in India?
For months we’ve been hearing rumors about Google Music, the company’s on-demand or subscription or cloud-based music service. One industry insider recently called it the “worst kept secret” in the business–yet very few details have leaked about the service. Today, however, Google quietly launched a new Google Labs feature in India called Indic Music , a search-and-play service that might gives …
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