Music Industry News: GigsWiz Ticketing, LimeWire Against Pirates, Kiss YouTube Shutdown & More
- French Study: Music Streaming More Popular Than Downloading (Evolver)
- GigsWiz adds social ticketing features. (MusicAlly)
- LimeWire Disavows New 'Pirate Edition' (WSJ)
- If Other Industries Were As Evil as the RIAA. (Cracked)
- iTunes Store: How It Rose, Why It Matters. (MacTalk)
- SoundCloud says that more than 100 third-party applications for mobile, desktop and the web have been created on its open platform.
More Music Industry News & Commentary:
- Echo Nest founder says "Bands should not have to pay to play at Midem" and offers a solution. (Echo Nest)
- Google Adds Some Snark to Facebook Open-Data Battle (Epicenter)
- The Harry Fox Agency has expanded Nat Annamalai’s role to Vice President, Business Development & Revenue Assurance.
- BT and TalkTalk granted judicial review of UK’s Digital Economy Act. (Music Ally)
- Ask the indie professor: Is it strictly a man's world on tour? (Guardian)
- Why Ridiculous Statutory Rates For File Sharing Are Inappropriate. (TechDirt)
- My Chemical Romance 'scrapped 28 boring songs' (NewsBeat)
- RadarMusicVideos, which helps match pvideo producers with musicians and labels, were chosen yesterday as the best tech start-up by a panel of six judges in the TechCrunch Europa awards.
- Aspiro sees sharp increase in music streaming and downloads. (Music Week)
- WB musicman Danny Gould dies. (Variety)
- How to do band reunions. (Guardian)
- We7 And TDC: Two More Steps On The Path To Transformational Innovation/ (Forrester)
- The official YouTube video channel of American glam legends Kiss has been closed for breaching copyright laws – just weeks after bassist Gene Simmons controversially called for all rights breakers to be sued and jailed. (RockRadio)