Business, Services And Guides For Music Labels
If you can’t beat ‘em, might as well join ‘em. At an event today in New York City, Sonos announced that they’re going to be adding compatibility with Amazon’s Alexa voice control and compatibility with Spotify Connect. Today’s event didn’t feature any brand new Sonos hardware being announced, but instead, the announced Alexa support will […]
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Give this round to Revelator. Revelator, billed as the “leader in rights administration for digital assets,” and located in Tel Aviv, Israel, have announced that they’ve locked down $2.5 million in their Series A funding round that was led by Exigent Capital, alongside Digital Currency Group and Israelite early-stage fund Reinvent. This adds to the […]
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There’s sound, sound, sound everywhere we go. Whether it’s hearing the traffic in a busy metropolitan city or the birds singing out in the middle of an open field, sound is unescapable. But it’s going to become even more unavoidable when going on the largest social networking platform. Mashable is reporting that Facebook is now […]
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Et tu, Spotify? First reported here by sources close to the company barely 1 year ago, the New York Post is now reporting that music streaming leader Spotify is now releasing brand new music, which is always a good thing, but not if you’re a free subscriber to the service. We first reported in 2015 […]
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Et tu, Spotify? First reported here by sources close to the company barely 1 year ago, the New York Post is now reporting that music streaming leader Spotify is now releasing brand new music, which is always a good thing, but not if you’re a free subscriber to the service. We first reported in 2015 […]
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Record companies and recording artists should take heed – according to at least one federal judge, sound engineers are performing copyrightable work when they digitally remaster old recordings. The following guest post comes from Michelman & Robinson attorney Michael Poster, as well as Victor Sapphire, Joshua Blechner. Michelman is one of two firms originally launching class […]
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Record companies and recording artists should take heed – according to at least one federal judge, sound engineers are performing copyrightable work when they digitally remaster old recordings. The following guest post comes from Michelman & Robinson attorney Michael Poster, as well as Victor Sapphire, Joshua Blechner. Michelman is one of two firms originally launching class […]
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I don’t listen to music much at the gym. It’s my time to catch up on the news and podcasts. As an LA resident, I’m one of the fortunate few who don’t have to spend much time in my car as my office is 40 feet from my bed. While others are audibly lip synching […]
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A new study published last week by Music Watch, Inc. offers surprising clues as to how exactly music streamers listen to their music. Based on 500 online interviews with Spotify and Apple Music users (sorry, those who prefer Tidal) who “participate in listening to or creating playlists,” the study found, unsurprisingly, that 90 percent of […]
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The following guest post comes from David Israelite, CEO of the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA), a trade association representing American music publishers. It’s a response to an earlier guest post on Digital Music News from Jody Dunitz, a former executive at Sony/ATV who has been a sharp critic of ASCAP, BMI, and the NMPA […]
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