Hypebot’s New Music Business Briefing For Tuesday October 31st, 2006

– First Robbie Williams, then Korn, now dead people. In a deal that actually makes sense EMI has entered into a partnership with the Dean Martin Trust to act as agent for licensing Martin’s name, image, and likeness.  EMI will continue to market Martin’s expansive recording catalogs on a worldwide basis. (press release)

– Martin Bandier has resigned as chairman and joint CEO of EMI Music Publishing. Roger Faxon, who is currently president and joint CEO of EMI Music Publishing, will succeed Bandier as sole CEO on 1 April 2007.

– Continuing it’s march into emerging markets, digital distributor The Orchard is opening of offices in Greece, Bulgaria and Romania following important new agreements with several labels in those regions. The Orchard will also annnounced that it will release the digital version of Ice T’s upcoming album, “Gangsta Rap” concurrent with the album’s CD release on Melee/Universal. 

– Blogger Siddiq T Bello of Change Is Good analyzes the meteoric rise in BitTorrent use and interviews some of the people behind the most popular sites. (C.I.G.)

– OK it isn’t about music, but it sure changed the way we communicate and market it. Email turns 25 years old this month. (InfoWorld)