Thursday’s Music Brief: EMI Sues Grooveshark, P2P Trial Circus, GameSoundCon, Startup $’s & More
HYPEBOT FEATTURES:
- Let's Prove That Artists Don't Need Major Labels To "Make It"
- More Major Label vs. Startup: EMI Sues Grooveshark
- Video: Twitter & The Death Of Rock Criticism
- Your Online Music Marketing Report Card
- Publisher Bug Music & Kings Of Leon Launch Label
MORE MUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS:
- Tenenbaum P2P circus: judge's "indulgence is at an end". In the high-profile file-sharing against Boston grad student Joel Tenenbaum, the judge has demanded that Harvard Law prof Charles Nesson stop violating the law and start following her orders. (ars)
- Amazon MP3 goes live in France with 500+ album downloads at 2,99 EU each. (Amazon.fr)
- New "official" BPI UK indie only charts to debut later this month. (Aalrab) And indie labels react. (Guardian)
- GameSoundCon is a new video game music and sound conference featureing two days of seminars and panels teaching game audio creation and production. The inaugural events will be held in on September 24 -25 in Los Angeles and then November 13 and 14 in San Francisco. (press release)
- Need startup cash? Add Twitter. $23.3 million in VC love and counting… (ChubbyBrain)
- Brands Should Be Wired Into Music Discovery (Ad Age)
- When the Music Industry Screws You, 2009 edition (or My Man Van) Hunt. (Limits Of Science via Topspin)
- iTunes warns against the use of unsupported media players like the (unamed) Palm Pre. (Apple)
- College radio stations are holding their own as world turns digital. (Chicago Daily Herald)
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