Friday’s Music Briefing: Piracy @ 95%, Fair Use, HMV, Nokia & More
IFPI releases its latest Digital Music Report: 95% of music downloads are unauthorized, with no payment to artists and producers. Global digital sales grew 25%. (IFPI)- Public broadcasters agree to new web music royalty deal. (AP)
- What fair use? Three strikes and you're out… of YouTube. (ars)
- LA's Indie 103 FM goes online only. (FMQB)
- Music retailer HMV buys into UK live music company MAMA.(Times UK)
- UK retailer cuts price of Nokia's Comes With Music cell. (DMW)
- R.I.P. Manager Gary Kurfirst. (The Ramones, Talking Heads)
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Anybody else catch the second link, where Yahoo TechNews says terrestrial radio doesn’t pay royalties?
“Traditional AM and FM broadcasters are currently exempt from copyright royalty rates for over-the-air radio play since — under the logic of the current law — that airplay is thought to provide free promotion for artists and labels. But the broadcasters are subject to the new rates for any songs streamed over radio station Web sites.”
Whoops.