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lorenrochelle:

Google is getting into the online music business. TechCrunch has learned that the search giant will partner with iLike and LaLa to integrate clips into its search engine.

-Interesting.

(via onemoretimewithfeeling)

infoneernet:

If you have been blessing everyone around you with cell phone “performances” of Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies,” rest assured that your cell phone provider won’t have to pay royalties on it. A federal court has ruled that ringtones played aloud in public are not infringing on the content owners’ copyrights because they don’t constitute a true performance. (In other news, children are still allowed to sing songs without paying royalties.)

Joking aside (actually, that’s less of a joke than you might think), the ringtone argument was made by the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) earlier this year when it sued certain mobile carriers in the US in an attempt to force them to fork over royalties every time a customer’s ringtone is played. Even though the carriers were already paying for download rights to the songs, ASCAP argued that each ring was a “performance” and therefore those download payments weren’t enough.

Seen at ars technica

IMO: Like crabs in a bucket, I would like to see an overall shift in attitude that the public is wanting - more open more free, artists and labels get paid - but music is a gift to us all, you cannot grasp a rainbow. Would I be so bold to predict that the industries that reflect this peacful value will thrive? Or will it be like Jack Black’s character Dewey Finn said:

- The Man.


Oh, you don't know The Man ?


Well, he's everywhere.


In the White House, down the hall.
Miss Mullins, she's The Man.


And The Man ruined the ozone,
and he's burning down the Amazon,


and he kidnapped Shamu
and put her in a chlorine tank.



There used to be a way to stick it
to The Man. It was called rock 'n' roll.


But guess what. Oh, no.


The Man ruined that too
with a little thing called MTV !


So don't waste your time


trying to make anything cool
or pure or awesome.


The Man's just gonna call you a fat,
washed-up loser and crush your soul.


So do yourselves a favor
and just give up !