Senate Passes Webcaster Settlement Act 2009
The U.S. Senate has passed the Webcaster Settlement Act of '09. A similar bill passed the House several weeks ago. If signed by the President, the bill would suspend controversial. Continue reading
Friday’s Music Briefing: RIAA Wins $19M From Thomas, Spotify Premium, $4.6M For Concerts Online, MySpace UK & More
HYPEBOT FEATURES: RIAA vs. Thomas-Rasset Verdict: Guilty + $19.2M "Mom, I Need Help Marketing My Music" What The Ad Industry Thinks Of The Music Industry Video:Duncan Hutchinson Of Rights Flow. Continue reading
Video: Twitter & The Death Of Rock Criticism
THIS IS A MUST WATCH: At the 140 Characters Conference, Rolling Stone and Idolator critic Christopher R. Weingarten shared a witty and all too true overview of how music blogs,. Continue reading
More Major Label vs. Startup: EMI Sues Grooveshark
VS. Grooveshark has become the latest music startup to be sued by EMI. Under the motto "Millions Of Songs. Find Yours", Grooveshark combs a database of 6 million songs. Continue reading
Let’s Prove That Artists Don’t Need Major Labels To “Make It”
Help Build A Database Of Music 2.0 Success Stories During every interview, convention panel, startup negotiation or conversation with an industry peer, there is inevitably a moment when someone says. Continue reading
Your Online Music Marketing Report Card
This guest post is from Nick Crocker who runs Native, a digital agency based in Australia. You can read his blog or follow him on Twitter. Not every artist needs. Continue reading
Publisher Bug Music & Kings Of Leon Launch Label
Indie publishing giant Bug Music has launched a new record label with Kings Of Leon. Details of the first release on the imprint, The Features “Some Kind of Salvation,” will. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
Despite Troubles, Poll Shows MySpace Still Important To Social Music
Earlier this week May stats were released that Facebook has passed MySpace in users and pageviews both in the US and wordwide. Yesterday, MySpace announced a re-organization that will see. Continue reading
New Album Releases Hit Hard By Sales Downturn
A Nielsen study presented last week at NARM (link to full presentation after the jump) contained some particularly bad news for artists and labels releasing new albums. As steep as. Continue reading
