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Digital Music

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Is public domain harming choice for the public?

It’s nearly 2010… for a lot of you, the only thing on your mind would be top 10 albums of the year (I’ve already chosen a definite 3), but there are a lot of people very excited about the stroke of midnight come the 31st of December, it’s because a lot of works will fall [...]

Hey Spotify how about…

Spotify certainly rule the headlines as far as streaming start-ups go. 2008-9 has seen a massive increase in presence, users and hype. Today brings the announcement that their iPhone app has now been approved. There was a lot of ‘will they, won’t they’ hype about this because Apple have recently taken a lot of heat [...]

RIP: A Remix Manifesto

If you haven’t seen this film yet, then where have you been? “RIP: a remix manifesto” a documentary about copyright and how it’s restricting the art it was built to protect. The docu film from Brett Gaylor is apparently 6 years in the making discussing the culture that has been created through the ability of [...]

Who to follow on Twitter in music…

Quite a few of these type posts banded about. But I feel I get a lot out of twitter so I’m always happen to hype it up to anyone who’s willing to listen. Jon Bounds has a good introduction for anyone who’s new to it.
Twitter is what you make of it. For me it’s great. [...]

Make more money from online sales…

So, your an artist or label who’s selling music rather than giving it away. Even better, your giving away a track or more to promote the record more or whatever your viral marketing strategy is. On average with iTunes, a label/artist will receive £0.49p from each sale plus mechanical’s if that’s applicable. This is non [...]

Are we paying too much for digital music?

This post origianlly appeared and was written for the Gigbeth Conference website.
We face many tough decisions in life. And the choice between downloading a new album for £7.99 on iTunes or ordering it off Play.com for the £6.99 is one of the hardest. Whether your a consumer of music or a rights owner, you have [...]

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