Musikbusinessnews: GEMA, Filesharing, PingTune und mehr

Weitere Musikbusinessnews der letzten Tage:

• Urheberrecht: Auch die Gema fordert Geld für Youtube-Einbettungen – Golem.de „“A HREF“ ist kein Problem, „Video SRC“ soll dagegen bald Geld kosten. Dies fordert nun auch die deutsche Gema. Danach soll das Einbetten von urheberrechtlich geschützten Youtube-Videos eine Lizenz kosten.“
• Unexpected Things: Guy Capitalizing On The Concept Of Music SEO By Recording 100 Songs A Day
• Spotifys Web-Streaming fernbedient
• Beats Will Shut Down MOG Music April 15; MOG Founder Joins Stealth Mobile Startup Chosen.fm | TechCrunch
• Raising the stakes: Spotify and Rdio are adopting new freemium models to stay ahead of the pack – The Next Web
• Digital Music Sales Decrease For First Time in 2013 | Billboard Wie zu erwarten war.
• The Secret Sauce Inside Pure’s Sonos-Like Internet Music Speakers | Evolver.fm
• 10% Of All Digital Music Sales Come From One App
• AOL Sells Winamp And Shoutcast For $5-10M To Radionomy, Takes 12% Stake In Belgian Digital Audio Company | TechCrunch
• Record Label Asks Google to Censor Artists’ Twitter Accounts | TorrentFreak „Spinnin’ Records, one of the largest independent dance music labels, has been sending several unusual takedown requests to Google. The record label asked the search engine to take down the Twitter pages of several of its own top artists, including Afrojack, as well as its own account. Google, thus far, has refused to help out with this blatant attempt at self-censorship.“
• File-Sharing Boosts Creation of New Hit Music, Research Finds „The paper provides empirical evidence that file sharing did not reduce the creation of new hit songs. Instead, more new music entered the hit charts, an effect that’s driven by existing artists.The data shows that the output from existing artists increased, while new artists appeared less frequently in the hit charts. However, since the new material from existing artists was greater than the loss from new artists, the “creation” of new music increased overall.“
• Spotifree — Free OS X App For Muting Spotify Ads
• The honest Sonos Play:1 review: six weeks with a $200 internet-connected speaker „It’s great technology that also sounds good, but it could still be easier. That being said, the day that Sonos opens up play to functionality to third-party developers, I’ll be the first one to pick up one of these.“
• Why You Won’t See Beats Music, Pono or YouTube Music Till Next Year
• Musik im Internet: Einsatz, Lizenzen und Suche „Die Suche nach freier Musik im Internet gestaltet sich also schwieriger als bei anderen Medien (z.B. Fotos). Da es keine großen, internationalen Anbieter gibt muss oft darauf gehofft werden, durch Zufall auf ein passendes Portal zu stoßen.“
• 5 Apps For The Lightweight Music Fan – hypebot
• PingTune Raises $1.6M For Music Messaging App
• How to rescue radio
• Live Nation, Parallel Partner For Asian Sponsorships
• Nokia rebrands its Music service to Nokia Mix Radio, completely refreshes Windows Phone app | Windows Phone Central
• How Apple’s New Product Announcements Affect The Music World – Forbes „What many don’t understand is that there are big shops in the audio for video space servicing film and television that use hundreds of machines that need as much horsepower as they can get. Apple now not only gets to move more machines into these facilities, but also keeps potential competitors out of the game at the same time.“