On March 30th, Google announced the launch of a long-rumored, legal music downloading service available exclusively to mainland China. The service, called Google Music Search,…
It’s been in your pocket since the mid-90s. It’s been more of an essential than your home phone since the early millennium. And now it…
Live Nation and Ticketmaster announced their intent to merge early in February 2009. Many questions have been raised about the legality and the effects of…
Bringing an end to the age of ‘one-price-fits-all’ songs on the iTunes Store, Apple launched its long-anticipated three-tiered pricing system earlier this month. As the…
It is no surprise that the music industry has been in a state of severe tumult the past couple of decades, mostly attributable to digital…
The inauguration of our Nation’s 44th president, Barack Obama, was met with a spectacle of music the likes of which had never been seen. Artists…
I am sure a lot of you have heard of the NAMM Show. Primarily, NAMM is held for retailers to make orders from manufacturers. That…
As the world met economic turmoil in October of 2008, no industry tat could hide from the effects of the downturn. Yet, the entertainment trade,…
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, which represents record labels worldwide, just released its Digital Music Report 2009. It is available for free at…
The current state of our country’s economy is frightening. With the recent $85 billion federal bailout of AIG, the unstableness of the stock market, and…
When the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was signed into law in October 1998, the bill included two important provisions: one surrounding Digital Rights Management (DRM),…
Scarcity, Theft, and Evolution in a Digital World Obsolescence of Reality The dawning of the information age has heralded a revolution in consumer power. Producers…
In the past, philanthropy was often a matter of simply giving money away. Charity was seen as a privilege and was frequently limited to a…
So you’re the business manager of folk-bluegrass group Apples and Oranges. The band’s catchy new single “Pickin’ Two” just aired in an episode of Weeds.…