A review of Steve Knopper’s Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age The record industry has fallen on…
This June, Universal Music Group (UMG) announced it would be pairing with Virgin Media, the U.K. based telecommunications giant, to offer Virgin Broadband subscribers unrestricted…
Shock and grief were expressed by many this June as the world lost one of its most influential pop-stars, Michael Jackson. Jackson transformed the world…
In preparation for a highly anticipated fall 2009 tour, Ticketmaster introduced a paperless ticketing strategy for Miley Cyrus , making it the first exclusively ticket-less…
In a decade of declining record sales, only the most enterprising artists survive. Record sales can be an unreliable source of income, and although touring…
This article addresses the effective use of social media marketing. It presents best practices for leveraging the new technologies, and presents an argument against the…
The world stands at the precipice of a Chinese century. As has appeared increasingly obvious for several years, the United States, recently at the very…
A recent law passed by the French Lower House brings the promise of controversy and the possibility of anti-piracy legislation throughout Europe and the United…
Over the past year, Jim Griffin has been working on a collective licensing plan that would allow college students across the country to download an…
On March 30th, Google announced the launch of a long-rumored, legal music downloading service available exclusively to mainland China. The service, called Google Music Search,…
Live Nation and Ticketmaster announced their intent to merge early in February 2009. Many questions have been raised about the legality and the effects of…
Bringing an end to the age of ‘one-price-fits-all’ songs on the iTunes Store, Apple launched its long-anticipated three-tiered pricing system earlier this month. As the…
It is no surprise that the music industry has been in a state of severe tumult the past couple of decades, mostly attributable to digital…
