Music industry legend Clive Davis and guitar hero Carlos Santana teamed up this week in an historic effort to curb piracy. They released a CD not worth stealing. A couple of days ago I nearly won $140,000. Well, actually $70,000. A very senior major label A&R exec sent me a copy of Santana’s new...
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What is soulless, boring, cheap, petty, antiquated, and generally moronic? Answer: a music publisher. If you don’t believe me, just take a meeting with the Harry Fox Agency. Roger Faxson became the latest in a string of CEO’s at EMI a couple of months ago and finally began last week to start throwing deck...
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Last year database giant Oracle filed for and won a $2 million default judgment against industry laughing stock Qtrax. If you’ll recall, Qtrax bounced a $1.8 million check to Oracle. In a classic “the dog ate my homework” defense, Qtrax argues a litany of excuses as to why the judgment against them should be...
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As everyone on earth knows by now, Steve Jobs introduced a refreshed line of iPods, an updated iTunes with social networking and a “re-imagined” Apple TV on Tuesday. Will any of this result in more music sales? Hell no. It’s common knowledge that the recording industry has become Steve Jobs’ bitch. And the TV...
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