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More Music Industry News: Cost Of Fighting P2P, LyricWiki,, Fanzines, iTunes Pricing & More

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    Music piracy costs money; does fighting it cost more?  The major music labels say that they stand to lose £200 million this year in the UK alone thanks to Internet file-sharing. But one of the country's biggest ISPs is now slinging around some huge numbers of its own, saying it will actually cost ISPs £365 million a year to adopt "three strikes" rules meant to stem piracy. (ars)

  • Music Publishers push LyricWiki into Wikia's arms (Techdirt)
  • MTV Bump? A little more than a week after making their American television debut performing  at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards,  British band Muse debuted at #3 on the Billboard chart with 128,000 copies sold.  The "Uprising" single saw a week-over-week growth of 341% after the performance, jumping from 12,040 to 53,039 units sold this week.
  • Fanzines – The scene that smells of zine spirit.  It should have died out with flexi discs and VHS, but now a new generation is embracing the DIY world of the fanzine. (Independent)
  • Study: Twitterers More Receptive To Ads Than Other Social Net Users (paidContent)
  • Eminem publisher takes Apple to court over rights. (AP)
  • Nokia extends music contracts in Britain. (Reuters) Poor sales are almost certainly the reason. 
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    Music industry dynamics suggest iTunes price hike. –  Online music consumers likely to pay more if ASCAP and BMI succeed in download revenues grab. (MN Daily) The inane fight by publishers to try to get a performance royalty for downloads continues…

  • A big Hypebot thank-you to the Studio Manifesto blog for the kind words about my post The Music Industry Pays The Price Of Negativity. I agree wholeheartedly that , as they wrote, it is "innovation we need to fix the industry. Nothing promotes innovation
    more than tearing down walls and monopolies…". (SM)

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2 Comments

  1. Performance royalties for downloads? Ridiculous. It’s hard not to see how this wouldn’t completely screw anyone who sells digital music online.
    Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but it seems as if it would also apply to musicians selling on a personal website or CD Baby, TuneCore, etc. Wouldn’t one have to pay royalties for sales/streams of your own music, only to receive 80-90% of it back as a royalty payment many months later? Why would I want to stay with (or join) ASCAP/BMI?

  2. iTunes already saved the music industry by doing the opposite of what others where into, subscriptions. Why do people still want to shove those subscriptions down our throat. We didn’t want them when iTunes was not around and we don’t want it now.

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