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 Mark Schafer

Last.fm Announce Full Track Offer

Music website Last.fm announced on January 23rd that it will begin offering full tracks online for free. The website, now owned by CBS, has secured licensing agreements with the four major record labels, as well as thousands of independent labels. Last.fm derives its revenue from advertising and...

by Noelle Ventresca

The Continuing Story of Qtrax

As music consumption changes, new business models emerge. One such company, Qtrax is stepping out with one of the first advertiser-supported free and legal P2P file-sharing sites. Currently Qtrax contains DRM-laden music only suitable for Windows PC, but it plans to release a version for Mac OS X...

by Sarah Demarco