recorded-music
How Hollywood plans to keep prices up as movies go online
The movie business is often said to follow the lead of the music industry. Watch what happens to music on the Internet, wait a few years, and expect that the same things will happen to Hollywood blockbusters. Think of it as peering into the future, but without the Magic 8-Ball, Ouija board, or astrologer.
Continue reading »Record labels keep blaming P2P, but it’s a hard sell
In response to a new survey suggesting that P2P file-swapping might not be harming music sales , music’s international trade group IFPI today put out a statement. “The net effect of illegal file-sharing in the UK and elsewhere has been to reduce legitimate sales,” IFPI asserts . “This is why spending on recorded music has fallen every year since illegal file-sharing began to become widespread.” In other words, P2P file-sharing is the main cause of the revenue decline and the (very real) job losses in the recorded music business.
Continue reading »Pandora now pushing radio to pay for music, too
The campaign to get radio stations to pay up for the music they play marches on. With revenues from recorded music sales declining, rightsholders have turned their eyes in recent years to commercial US radio, which currently pays songwriters (but not performers or record labels) for the tunes that power their business. The record labels now have Pandora on their side.
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