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More Music News Mon. 8/31/09: Hendrix, Scarcity, Pirate Party, Twitter & More

  • Hendrix Sony Music's Legacy and Experience Hendrix L.L.C. have agreed to a catalog licensing deal that sets the stage for a 2010 worldwide campaign to make Jimi's music, including classics, never before heard archive recordings, and filmed concerts available through every type of media. (press release)
  • Major Record Labels Sorta, Maybe Embracing Direct-To-Fan Projects. (Techdirt)
  • Live Nation offers more all-in concert tickets this week for $10 and $15 with (they say) no service fees, this Wednesday at
    livenation.com
    . (press release) Vote in our Live Nation ticketing poll here.
  • Opinion: Digital, Scarcity And The Impact On The Music Biz. Glenn Peoples explores: Has the digital copy increased the value of the scarce physical event? Or has the drop in revenue in the era of the digital copy unlocked the value that already existed? (Billboard)
  • Pirate A former German MP switches to the Pirate Party. "Herbert Rusche, the co-founder of the German Green Party and former member of the German Parliament, has joined the Pirate Party. Rusche praises the party for its open structure and its efforts to protect people’s privacy and fundamental rights. Those issues, he says, are the ones established parties fail to address." (TorrentFreak)
  • Twitter Could Be The Next MySpace (And That’s Not A Compliment) (paidContent)
  • Nokia's Comes With Music enters South Africa with "a year of free music". (MyBroadband)

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  1. Twitter could be the next Myspace how? You post up 140 character messages, there’s not a lot of room for feature bloat there. Or is this “the next myspace” meaning “we’re scared of seeing black users on our social networks?”

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