The rebirth of venture capital, originally fueled by the equity related collapses of the early 2000s, is in the air. Publications like Fortune and the Wall Street Journal seem fixated on the…
As the year 2010 winds to a close, the final Music Business Journal release of the semester is here just in time to accompany your…
With the advent of online marketing, social media platforms, music streaming services, and music piracy…
On October 26th 2010, the rogue P2P service LimeWire was shutdown. Thirteen separate record companies – all represented by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) – sued for mass copyright infringement.
Video is the fastest growing segment on the Internet and a quick glance at the top ranked videos on YouTube will reveal music videos occupying almost all of the top slots.
The digital age of music has introduced new legal forms of music consumption that do not correlate clearly with the previous licensing laws
With the advent of sound recording at the end of the nineteenth century, many different kinds of sounds – from musical performances and important government…
Spotify Music streaming certainly seems to be a formidable combatant against illegal file sharing and P2P users. The cloud-based streaming service Spotify has been much…
The advent and progress of Internet Technology is one of the greatest things to happen to music since the invention of the phonograph. It is…
With the rise of online file sharing and data-streaming, copyright infringement is currently at an all time high. Now, the future of the industry finds…
As we emerge from the depths of winter, I hope you enjoy this latest issue of the MBJ. I continue to be amazed at the…
Currently, there are hopes that music streaming may become an important source of revenue, possibly replacing traditional physical revenue. There are already two types of…
Recently, I visited Nashville and was able to interview Linda Edell Howard, a top music lawyer. Nashville, where Howard has her practice, has a different…
Over the last year, as the economy and the music industry lingered, many asked where the money was . Indeed , a hot topic at…