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Weekly Digest on the Music Industry – June 21, 2009

Posted on 21. Jun, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

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]

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Weekly Digest on the Music Industry – April 19, 2009

Posted on 19. Apr, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

BREAKING NEWS

The Pirate Bay Verdict: guilty

-Wired: Why File Sharing Will save Hollywood, Music.

A good read on the importance of sites like The Pirate Bay “The complete DNA of social media was right there, from the very start of P2P”: buddy lists, user uploads, filtering content by user, viral marketing, ad-supported content and the potential of mining valuable data. “Even as the content industry celebrates another false victory over file sharing, the world is moving on, to cloud-based, on-demand streaming services — some licensed — where you can hear music and watch videos faster and in a more social way than you can with bit torrent. And as content holders look to monetize those networks, P2P networks provide the only useful template, because they share so many characteristics with today’s social-media networks”

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Weekly Digest on the Music Industry -April 5, 2009

Posted on 05. Apr, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

BREAKING NEWS (SORT OF..)

-Google launches a free ad-supported music service in China with the blessing of the labels. [WSJ]

TRENDS

-Why buy when you can listen free?

- The agreement between Spotify and 7Digital sparks a debate on the mixed streaming-store business model.  Glenn Peoples at Billboard views Lala as a possible winner because of its more focused user experience. [Billboard]

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The BlackBerry App World and the mobile music stores new ecosystem

Posted on 04. Apr, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

It’s StoreMania again. This time thanks to RIM.

At CTIA, the new Blackbery App World was announced. The store has hundreds of apps available at launch, and RIM says it expects around a thousand to be available in its first week. Like Apple’s store, RIM’s offers both free and paid apps that download directly to your device.

The Blackbery Store has a nice inteface, but some oddities. The main one is that it is only available for relatively recent BlackBerry models–the ones with trackballs, starting with the Pearl which means that millions of people with older models can’t use the app store.

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