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Weekly Digest on the Music Industry – June 21, 2009

Posted on 21. Jun, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci in Music Industry Trends

BREAKING NEWS

Music Labels Win $2 Million in Web Case [NYT]

Record Labels’ $1.9 Million Win in Thomas Retrial Constitutional?[EFF]

What’s next for Jammie Thomas-Rasset? [Ars]

BUZZ, COMPANIES & TRENDS – MUSIC

Music Charts Won’t Recognise Free Streams Yet [Moconews]

-The Economy of Digital Music- A Harvard Study

• Yet Another Study Shows That Weaker Copyright Benefits Everyone [TechDirt] Download the Full Study here
• Read also Harvard Study Finds Weaker Copyright Protection Has Benefited Society [MichaelGeist]
• Harvard Paper on P2P Flawed But Worth Reading [BillBoard]

Virgin Unlimited

• Virgin Media & Universal Launch Unlimited Download Service, But… [Hypebot]
• Analysis: Virgin Media’s unique unlimited music service [MusicAlly]

More Lawsuits and Old Victims

• Another Music Start-Up Sued: EMI Takes Grooveshark to Court [MediaMemo]
• The Seeqpod.com Sale: So, What Does $125,000 Buy, Anyway? [DigitalMusicNews]
• Italy Is The Latest Country To Realize IP Address Alone Does Not ID File Sharers [TechDirt]

R.I.P MySpace?

• MySpace Cuts U.S. Staff By Nearly 30 Percent [PaidContent]
• Yes, MySpace can be saved [CNNMoney]
• MySpace Music set for September UK launch [Telegraph]

Imeem and Warner

• Exclusive: Warner Music Group Gets Back Together–Very Cautiously–With Imeem [MediaMemo]

UK News

• Digital Britain: piracy-battling strategy revealed [MusicAlly]
• Spotify joins push to get music lovers to pay for content [NewMediaAge]

Artists

• Let’s Prove That Artists Don’t Need Major Labels To “Make It” [Hypebot]
• The New Black: Mos Def’s T-Shirt Experiment…[DigitalMusicNews]
• Kings of Leon Launch Record Label. [Glasswerk]

Radio

• Sirius unveils iPhone App: reviews not so good (updated) [Reuters]
• Enjoying ‘Jelli’ Radio? Now, Try ‘Jelly’ Radio...[DigitalMusicNews]

EMusic

Q and A: eMusic CEO Explains Controversial Price Increase, Sony Deal [Wired]

BUZZ, COMPANIES & TRENDS – MOBILE

DRM Never Die? Protections Will Remain on Comes With Music…[DigitalMusicNews]

Songbird releases iPhone Sync Workaround [RWW]

Less Well Known Artists Make Use Of Mobile Platforms To Interact With Fans [TechDirt]

Palm Pre struggling to drive downloads from App Catalogue [IntoMobile]

Debate heats up over Apple threat to disable iTunes sync with Palm Pre [ComputerWorld]

iPhone 3G S First Take [CNet]

BUZZ, COMPANIES & TRENDS – SOCIAL MEDIA

Analysis: Twitter Is Effective, But How Effective? [BillBoard]

What’s Ghetto? Pushing Digital Album Sales On Twitter (Video) [TechCrunch]

Music Critic Promises to Tweet 1,000 Record Reviews [Switched]

Your Online Music Marketing Report Card [Hypebot]

READS

The Passion Index - MusicMachinery

How Thomas-Rasset case would have played out, had we not been in the Parallel Universe – Ray Beckerman

How The Recording Industry Changes Its Own Story -TechDirt

Narm Presentations- Enjoy

NARM 2009 State Of The Industry: Michael Masnick from NARM on Vimeo.

NARM 2009 Keynote Interview With Ian Rogers from NARM on Vimeo.

Tags: Mobile Content Trends, Music Industry Trends