Music industry
Why is the music industry so cross with Google?
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- Thursday, 16 January 2014
The IFPI and RIAA have renewed their attack on the internet giant, claiming broken promises over tackling piracy.
Four Fearless Predictions For The Music Industry In 2014
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- Tuesday, 07 January 2014
In the past 12 months, we've seen new releases by acts from Jay Z to Katy Perry, continued sparring between streaming services and rights holders–and twerking. So much twerking.
Why Music Streaming Is More Lucrative For Labels
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- Tuesday, 07 January 2014
In the great streaming royalty debate, the focus has been on tiny royalty rates per stream.
Springing leaks – how musicians are standing up to the marketeers
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- Tuesday, 07 January 2014
It's been called a revolution in music PR: a brave new world that involves sitting around doing naff all.
Top List of Most-Pirated Artists in 2013
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- Friday, 03 January 2014
Musicmetric's numbers represent albums and tracks downloaded using BitTorrent, a protocol for peer-to-peer file sharing that enables the transfer of large files.
Call for major record labels to change for digital age
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- Friday, 03 January 2014
Over the past 20 years the music industry has had to deal with plummeting CD sales, online piracy and new ways of listening to music via the internet.
UK Police Intellectual Property Goes Global
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- Tuesday, 10 December 2013
A ground-breaking initiative led by the new Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) to target websites providing unauthorised access to copyrighted content has shown an immediate global impact.
The Cost of Free
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- Monday, 09 December 2013
When it comes to recorded music, today's consumers enjoy a free ride and seem to have all the answers. Song sharing is there for the taking and, in any case, the old music sales model is archaic.
Shifting Sources of Artist Income: 1999-2012
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- Friday, 06 December 2013
If artists make more than three times the percentage from concerts as they do from recordings, does it matter if people are stealing their recordings? Or, is that just a label problem?
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