Why the New “Interactive Album” Concept: A Bargain at Any Price?
You’ve probably seen the stories (like this one) about a rumored “new” format for packaging prerecorded online music into the new digital or interactive album. If true, the promise of some new type of...
View ArticleSize is Relative – It’s the Number of Credit Cards On Account That Matters
There are currently 100 million active credit cards on account with iTunes. And according to Apple, iTunes is the number one music retailer in the world. Not “number one in online downloads,” but...
View ArticleMOG Steps Up From Blogs to Subscription Music Service – Licensing Prowess as...
With today’s introduction, MOG’s All Access service, at $5/month for full interactive-stream access (pick any song, any artist in the catalog and stream the songs without playback restrictions),...
View ArticleIn Google Music Search Space Nobody Will Hear You Scream “No, I Meant ‘Iggy...
For many months, nay years me and my ilk have wondered, “What will Google’s play be in online music?” License content and sell it through Google Checkout? Buy a small upstart music service? Well, the...
View ArticleSoundtrckr Tries to Marry Location, Music: Marriage Made in Heaven or Shotgun...
Just when you thought there weren’t any more ways one could use “social” as a modifier for music, along comes Soundtrckr (www.soundtrckr.com). What Soundtrackr has done is marry streaming music, shared...
View ArticleSteps to Towards Taming the Complexities of Content Licensing Content in a...
One of the serious challenges facing media companies and new online (and I include mobile in “online”) distribution intermediaries is knowing what content is available to license out (media and content...
View ArticleGoogle’s Move to Copyright Cop Had to Happen
It’s quite interesting to note how one blog post can both illuminate and obfuscate hugely complex issues. An example? Here’s one right here. Google’s chief legal counsel, Kent Walker, pledges that...
View ArticleWhy the New “Interactive Album” Concept: A Bargain at Any Price?
You’ve probably seen the stories (like this one) about a rumored “new” format for packaging prerecorded online music into the new digital or interactive album. If true, the promise of some new type of...
View ArticleSize is Relative – It’s the Number of Credit Cards On Account That Matters
There are currently 100 million active credit cards on account with iTunes. And according to Apple, iTunes is the number one music retailer in the world. Not “number one in online downloads,” but...
View ArticleMOG Steps Up From Blogs to Subscription Music Service – Licensing Prowess as...
With today’s introduction, MOG’s All Access service, at $5/month for full interactive-stream access (pick any song, any artist in the catalog and stream the songs without playback restrictions),...
View ArticleIn Google Music Search Space Nobody Will Hear You Scream “No, I Meant ‘Iggy...
For many months, nay years me and my ilk have wondered, “What will Google’s play be in online music?” License content and sell it through Google Checkout? Buy a small upstart music service? Well, the...
View ArticleSoundtrckr Tries to Marry Location, Music: Marriage Made in Heaven or Shotgun...
Just when you thought there weren’t any more ways one could use “social” as a modifier for music, along comes Soundtrckr (www.soundtrckr.com). What Soundtrackr has done is marry streaming music, shared...
View ArticleSteps to Towards Taming the Complexities of Content Licensing Content in a...
One of the serious challenges facing media companies and new online (and I include mobile in “online”) distribution intermediaries is knowing what content is available to license out (media and content...
View ArticleGoogle’s Move to Copyright Cop Had to Happen
It’s quite interesting to note how one blog post can both illuminate and obfuscate hugely complex issues. An example? Here’s one right here. Google’s chief legal counsel, Kent Walker, pledges that...
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