Monday’s Music 2.0 Briefing: NIN, Lower Royalites, YouTube Live, William Morris & Much More
TODAY’S HYPEBOT FEATURES: N.I.N. Self Releases An Album and Uploads It To Pirate Bay.
> Watch for a major announcement tonight at 8PM EST from 7digital.com.
> LOWER ROYALTIES? Kevin Hockin, who handles operations and marketing for fan based pricing music startup INSISTR told WIRED’s Listening Post that "RIAA member labels are trying to reduce the artist’s cut of a digital sale from 13 percent to 9 percent, and that Apple is trying to lower the payout to artists from songs sold on iTunes down to 4 percent."
> YouTube plans to offer live video by the end of the year. See video interview with YouTube’s Steve Chen and the Pop17 video blog after the jump.
> Booking Agency William Morris is teaming with the Silicon Valley venture capital firms Accel Partners and Venrock to invest in digital media start-up companies. AT&T is also a limited partner. (NY Times)
> With approval appearing increasingly illusive, XM and Sirius have extended their merger deadline to May 1st. (press release)
> Children of the late country music legend Conway Twitty are sueig Sony/ATV. (Reuters)
> A torrent of 700 mp3’s from the bands playing at SXSW 2008 via GarageSpin.
> Hypebot’s Music 2.0 Week In Review
