Over the past year, Jim Griffin has been working on a collective licensing plan that would allow college students across the country to download an…
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,…
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 morning of February 16th, 2009 marked the beginning of a trial in Sweden the likes of which the world had never seen before. The…
Topspin Media is a music company co-founded by Peter Gotcher (who also co-founded DigiDesign, the company behind ProTools) and Shamal Ranasinghe. The company is in…
Early in February, Live Nation and Ticketmaster decided to merge into one company instead of renewing their previous commitments to working with one another. This…
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…
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,…
Richard Thaler and Cass Sunsteain’s book, Nudge: Improcving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Yale University Press, 2008), is ostensibly about “choice architecture,” or how…
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…
At the annual Macworld conference last month, Apple announced multiple major changes to its iTunes music store. For music lovers, the most notable of these…