More Musc News For Mon. 8/3/09: YouTube $’s, Royalties, Hackers, Free, Techdirt Music Club & More

• Google is using the Chris Brown JK wedding video to prove its case for monetization. "I now pronounce you monetized: a YouTube video case study". (Google)
• More Lawmakers Oppose Performance Royalty (FMQB)
• Soundexchange cuts deals with more webcasters. (Billboard)
• Digital distributor WaTunes adds CD's on demand from Amazon's CreateSpace. (WaTunes)
• Nettwerk signs London rock band The Rifles. (AltSounds)
• Women are thriving in music – but not in the mainstream. (Guardian UK)
• Hackers Whack Music Industry For Punishing Pirate: Hackers have taken revenge on the music industry after Romania’s first convicted file-sharer was given a heavy fine. The industry said they had selected the individual at random, but hackers responded rather less randomly by causing the music industry website to blocked as malicious by both Google and Firefox. (Torrentfreak)
• Set Them Free – Some Thoughts On Free: The Future of a Radical Price (Digital Audio Insider)
  • You can read Chris Anderson's "Free" for free as a Google book or a Scribd ebook or listen to the audio version.
• TechDirt expands its real life experiment with the Connecting with Fans (CwF) and giving them a Reason to Buy (RtB) formula and bundled pricing experiment with iits own Techdirt Music Club.
• The Posies: How Do Bands Make Money Now? (NPR – listen or read)