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The
U.S. Government Backs Led Zeppelin In Its ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Copyright
Infringement Case
By Marsha
Silva (Digital Music News) -- More than 120 artists and industry organizations
have lent their support to Led Zeppelin in the ongoing copyright infringement
case over ‘Stairway to Heaven’. Now, Zeppelin’s got another unexpected
ally.
Take
Five (The Big Five Stories and Data You Need To Know)
By Mark
Mulligan (Music Industry Blog)
Cloudflare
Goes Public, Warns of Threats Posed by Copyright Infringing Users
By Andy Malt
(CMU) -- Internet services company Cloudflare filed to go public last week.
Within the necessary papers required before its IPO, the company warned potential
investors that being drawn into copyright infringement lawsuits was a
significant threat to its future.
Amazon
Responds to Counterfeit CD Allegations
By Paul
Resnikoff (Digital Music News) -- Here’s Amazon’s full statement.
Sing
On, Vocal Deepfakes
By Vanessa
Chang (Slate) -- A.I.-generated sound-alikes hold promise (?) for music and
beyond. Now vocal deepfakes—like
deepfake videos and photos—are thus poised to intensify an already alarming
crisis around evidence, trust, and authenticity. Certainly, it’s worrying that
vocal avatars could be deployed in the manner that deepfake video and photos
have been.
Ed
Harcourt on Establishing and Maintaining a Career as a Songwriter
By Andy
Price (MusicTech) -- With a multi-faceted career as journeyman songwriter,
composer, producer, live performer and highly regarded Mercury Music Prize-nominated
artist in his own right, the prolific Ed Harcourt’s perspective on the
music-industry landscape of the 21st century is invaluable.
How
To Build Your Own Artist Development Team: The Music Publisher
By Camille
Barboni (HpyeBot) -- In this piece we explore the role of the music publisher,
looking at the services they perform as well the relationship between the
publisher and the other members of your artist development team.
71
Great Ways Of Rewarding Your Music Fan Subscribers
By Dave Cool
(Htpebot) -- Once an artist has started selling fan subscriptions, it's
important to establish a rewards system which consistently gives back and keeps
them engaged enough to stay subscribed.
With
Music Coming To Podcasts, Radio Gets In Tune
(Inside
Radio) -- The door is cracking open to music use in podcasts and that could
open up new on-demand opportunities for radio stations. This is according to
executives behind PodcastMusic.com, the just-announced licensing clearinghouse
that will begin allowing podcasters to legally put songs in their shows
starting next year.
Game Over? Not
Yet…
By Kenny
McAlpine (Pursuit) -- Old technologies like gaming consoles are being
reimagined and reinvigorated by creative musicians, harking back to the lateral
thinking that gave us the Game Boy
New
Map Shows Locations For All The Movies, TV Shows And Music Videos Filmed In
Miami Beach
By Johnny
Diaz (South Florida Sun Sentinel)
Music Industry Job
Board (August 19, 2019)
By James
Shotwell (Haulix Daily)
Top 20 Keyboard Intros of
All Time
By Rick
Beato (YouTube)
How
Peter Fonda’s LSD Trip With The Beatles Produced A Classic John Lennon Lyric
By Randy
Lewis (Los Angeles Times)
[Couldn’t
help running this again. Adorable. If
this doesn’t make you smile, check to see if you still have a pulse.]
Fly Me
To The Moon
5 year old
Sophie Fatu -- [Song written by Bart Howard]
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