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What’s in the latest issue of Music & Copyright? 7 Aug 2013 | 01:52 pm
Just so visitors to this blog know what Music & Copyright is all about, we thought we would start blogging what each issue contains. In short, Music & Copyright is a fortnightly newsletter that covers...
Should this website be allowed to have a Facebook profile? 25 Jul 2013 | 12:37 pm
Earlier this month Music & Copyright conducted its third annual survey of unauthorized music download sites. Like last year and the year before, advertising for a large number of blue-chip companies a...
Demystifying Pan-European digital-music rights, second edition 4 Jul 2013 | 05:52 pm
Informa Telecoms & Media today announced the publication of the second edition of its highly successful report Demystifying Pan-European digital-music rights. The report neatly illustrates what repert...
Rock and dance burst the pop music bubble 26 Jun 2013 | 12:44 pm
New research published today by the Informa Telecoms & Media news service Music & Copyright reveals that global retail sales of rock music increased 2.9% last year, to US$6 million, from US$5.8 millio...
The impact of streaming on download sales and why there is no simple answer to the question of cannibalization 12 Jun 2013 | 12:45 pm
In the past few months the publication of detailed national digital-music sales figures has illustrated great differences between countries’ digital-music-buying habits. Published analysis of digital-...
Question – will the rise in the number of subscribers to music services such as Deezer and Spotify mean lower download sales in the future? 5 Jun 2013 | 06:26 pm
New digital-music business models are commonly touted as being a replacement for the current favorite. The emergence of Deezer and Spotify, for example, has often been reported with the term “iTunes-k...
Calls for a new look at the DMCA safe harbor protection as music companies head back to court in battle against MP3tunes 28 May 2013 | 08:13 pm
Talking to rights holders in the run up to the CISAC World Creators Summit in Washington, it seems that few agree that any country has the right balance between certain technology companies’ use of mu...
Google jockeys for space in US’s increasingly crowded music-streaming sector 16 May 2013 | 04:24 pm
Google has launched a music-subscription service to complement the sale of music downloads from Google Play. The strangely titled Google Play Music All Access will go up against the likes of Spotify, ...
UMG leads the new order of recorded-music companies, Sony dominates music publishing 1 May 2013 | 04:05 pm
Music & Copyright’s annual survey of the recorded-music and music-publishing sectors has revealed how much Universal Music Group (UMG) and Sony have benefited in market-share terms from the breakup of...
Has the music industry forgiven Justin Timberlake for his MySpace links and accusations of artist exploitation? 28 Mar 2013 | 02:31 pm
Depending on where a musician sits in the music industry value chain, a top-10 list of what’s most important to an unsigned artist will differ greatly to one compiled by a million-album seller. Scratc...
