Music Business Journal | Berklee College of Music

Jason Mendelson, co-founder of the venture capital firm Foundry Group, recently co-authored “Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist”(John Wiley, 2011) with...

The arrival of Spotify to the United States in July of 2011 brought a lot of attention – good and bad – to the newest music consumption trend of subscribing to services that provide...

‘Graduated response plans’ are geared towards fighting illegal online file sharing and have been implemented over the past two and a half years in France, New Zealand, and...

Jason Mendelson On Venture Capital

by Peter Alhadeff & Aaron Gottlieb 1

Reassessing Spotify

by Frederic Choquette 2

ISP Takedown Notices

by Emilie Bogrand 3

by Haven Belke

A Year in Review

2011 was a year of hit records, powerful female artists, the discovery of electronic dance music within the US, and more genre crossovers into the main stream, especially rap/hip-hop. Live music did better than in 2010 and the majors continued their cost-cutting measures, with the demise of EMI...

by Peter Alhadeff and MBJ Staff

Toward Global Rights

Music is a complex commodity bundled with many rights. As intellectual property, it requires licenses to transact legally. But in today’s marketplace, clearances from owners or intermediaries can be difficult to track both nationally and internationally. Often, many parties are involved...

by Giuseppe Mazziotti