Tag: music business

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    Anti-trust looms over major labels legal blitz

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    Serial entrepreneur Michael Robertson is embroiled in a legal fight against the recording business – and not for the first time. His MP3Tunes locker service has raised the ire of EMI in a case that continues this week. But isn’t it weird, he asks, how the Big Four divvy up the litigation against music start-ups…

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  • Right idea, wrong time: Snocap’s corpse washes up at Imeem

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    Timing is everything in business, and having a visionary idea too early can prove fatal. So it is with Shawn Fanning’s Snocap, which has formally announced today that it’s being acquired by Imeem. Or what’s left of it – most Snocap employees were laid off last year, with Fanning long gone. Snocap was created to…

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  • So is sharing a folder copyright infringement?

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    A US Judge on Monday upheld the view that sharing copyrighted music is infringement. It’s a defeat for defendant Denise Barker and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and a victory for the four record labels in the case, led by Warner’s Elektra. The Copyright Act is fairly clear. It defines “publication” as “offering to distribute copies…

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  • Creator haters at the LSE

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    “one last fag, then bop, bop, bop” – Wolfie Smith London School of Economics I saw one of the most disturbing of all. If you thought people don’t behave in real life like they do online, think again. Here were all the most unpleasant aspects of online behaviour – ignorance, rudeness, groupthink, and a general…

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  • US students, alumni to get legal P2P

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    US colleges and their alumni may be offered the right to P2P file-sharing under one of the most radical copyright reforms in a hundred years, The Register has learned. The amnesty would be part of a “covenant not to sue”, covered by a collective licence that offers the right to exchange major label repertory over…

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    An interview with Feargal Sharkey

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    Feargal Sharkey needs little introduction. A chart-topper in his own right, and as the lead singer of one of the greatest pop groups of all time, The Undertones, he subsequently crossed into regulatory and policy work – constantly agitating for musicians, songwriters and performers. At the start of the month he joined British Music Rights,…

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