Wednesday’s Music Brief: Digital 45’s, CD Baby, EMI, Song Adoption, NZ 3 Strikes & More

I'm feeling much better (thanks for your well wishes), back at it full force, and a looking forward to next Tuesday at the New Music Seminar in NYC.

HYPEBOT FEATURES:

• Rhino's Digital 45: A Format Worth Copying
• Romplr Makes Music Interactive
• EMI CEO Leoni-Sceti" "We've Clearly Lost Touch"
• CD Baby Grows Up With New Design & Features
• Indaba Enables Online Collaboration From Recording To Remix
• Ten 2-for-1 Tickets To NYC New Music Seminar

MORE MUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS:

• Live Nation is letting the fans help pick "No Service Fee Wednesdays" promotion.
• Discord At EMI – The label's private-equity owners and its lending bank are playing different tunes. (Forbes)
• RIAA: Tenenbaum "fair use" defense is laughable.The
  first P2P trial in the US ended with a $1.92 million verdict. The
  second begins in two weeks, but the recording industry has just moved
  for summary judgment on the issue of "fair use," hoping to undermine
  one of the key defense strategies. (ars)
• UK regulator sniffs around Live Nation, Ticketmaster merger. (Register)
• A song adoption formula to consider: Listeners * Optimal Frequency Rate * Social Situation Rate * Conversion Rate = Song Fans. (Music Think Tank)
• Indie artists are getting fast turnaround time for submissions to Pandora. (Digital Audio Insider)
• Trade magazine Pollstar has an overview of the year in concerts and live music so far. 
• Modified 3 Strikes Back on Agenda For New Zealand Pirates – After the previous Labour government failed in its attempts to set up an ISP code of practice to deal with copyright infringements via section 92a of the Copyright Act, today sees new proposals revealed. ISPs won’t be expected to police their networks, but instead decisions – including 3 strikes – will be made by the Copyright Tribunal. (TorrentFreak)