Saturday, May 14, 2016

At WIPO, Music Industry Points Fingers At YouTube For Hiding Behind Safe Harbour

YouTube is recognised by many as the world's biggest music platform. Listening to music on YouTube is free for users. However, according to the music industry, it pays very little in terms of revenue, mostly from advertising. It is time that the safe ...


WAVfn Offers Free Informative Community For Musicians And Music Industry Entrepenuers

Wav In this piece Danny Quick explains WAVfn, a new service being launched which targets all manner of music industry personnel from artists to entrepreneurs, bringing them together in a collaborative community.


YouTube launches tool to enable 'faster, more accurate royalty distributions'

YouTube has built a new tool which it says will deliver 'more accurate reporting of music content' to music publishers and collection societies.


'You're the Katie Hopkins of the music industry': A Manchester rapper's open letter to Azaelia Banks

You're a boss level troll but a low level human being; at this point babes you're pretty much the Katie Hopkins of music industry. It was hard for me to NOT feel personally attacked and defensive when you slated the UK Rap scene, something I have been ...


Friday, May 13, 2016

The music industry seems to love YouTube

Why do they keep saying they hate it? Yes, it's a system that works better at scale, but so is the entire music industry. It's not like they weren't already focused on blockbusters.