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Despite pub massacre, British songwriter revenue nudges up
CDs now for Xmas only? Performance royalties for British artists increased last year, driven by international agreements. Paid music use overseas was up almost 20 per cent to £166.9m, a healthy part of the £623m recorded by PRS For Music for 2009.…
Continue reading »Pink Floyd Beats EMI in Creativity Flap
Pink Floyd prevailed Thursday in a legal brawl with its label when a British judge ordered EMI to stop selling individual downloads of the acid-inspired group’s songs without permission. The artists behind The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall , and other top sellers claimed its decade-old contract with EMI required the band’s music to be sold as an entire album, not as single tracks in which EMI has permitted iTunes to distribute. High Court of Justice Judge Andrew Morritt of London agreed, ruling the 1999 agreement with EMI was crafted to “ preserve the artistic integrity of the albums.” Pink Floyd said its musical craft surrounding concept albums was being misrepresented when sold in singles.
Continue reading »British Library wants taxpayer to gobble the web
Cost? We don’t know British Library wants to archive the UK web, creating an invaluable national treasure trove of porn, celebrity trivia gossip and Daily Mail comments. But it admits it can’t put a figure on the project – which looks like becoming a huge, open-ended commitment for the taxpayer.…
Continue reading »Why British radio is broken (it’s boring, boring stations)
For those about to Planet Rock… If you only read one story about British radio this year, make sure it’s this one .… ?
Continue reading »BPI rejects scareletter approach to possible pirates
ACS:Law treads lonely path The tactic of using IP addresses extracted from internet service providers to send scare letters to suspected pirates is not something the British music industry would consider.…
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