More Music News Fri. 8/21/09: Slacker Turmoil, We7 vs. Spoitfy, Stopping Leaks, Twitter, Sinatra & More
- More turmoil for online music start-pps: Slacker CEO steps down. (WSJ)
- Teen fashion and music retailer Hot Topic's Q2 loss widens; sees Q3 profit below Street. (Reuters)
- "Now Downloading The Shirt On Your Back" – Are a fashion t-shirt plus a download code enough to get people to buy music? (NY Times)
- Sheryl Crow sells music catalog for about $10 million (WSJ)
- WE7 works to distance itself from Spotify and that services major label owners: "We pay for every play". (Music Ally)
- Musicians look for pay in a free world. (NPR)
- Most mobile startups are developing apps for mobile multiple platforms. (MocoNews)
- How can artists prevent their work from being leaked? Barely a month goes by without a hotly anticipated album appearing online before the official release. But is there anything artists can do to stop their work from being illegally downloaded? (Guardian)
- Twitter is getting ready to unveil a new feature that will add longitude and latitude to any tweet. (NY Times). Commercial accounts are coming too. (VentureBeat)
- EMI Publishing forms a joint venture with L.A. Reid. (press release)
- The Pirate Bay: Copied, Shared, and Resurrected (Epicenter)
- Universal Music buys the international rights to Frank Sinatra's albums. (paidContent)
- Bug Music registers 5 consecutive quarters of market share growth. (press release)
- What will YouTube do next? (Fortune)
- New FoxyTunes version – share tunes on Twitter, Last.fm, Facebook (FoxyTunes)
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