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RECORD
INDUSTRY NUGS FROM AROUND THE WEB...
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The
Chicago Promoters' Ordinance Kills
Independent Music:
A Documentary from the Streets
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Our
friends from JaGoFF
spent their summer vacation getting
the word out on the ill-conceived
Chicago
Promoters' Ordinance and have
filmed
a documentary to prove it. This
Promoters' Ordinance, if passed
into law, would effectively "drop
a bomb on Chicago's independent
music community, if not nuke it
entirely." according to Jim
DeRogatis at the Chicago Sun-Times.
Don't write this one off because
this horrible idea can easily catch
on across the country. Do yourself
and everyone a favor - WATCH IT,
EMBED IT, DOWNLOAD IT. SHARE IT.
Here
is a bit of the background story.
DO
SOMETHING about it.
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Goodbye, DRM; hello "stealable" Digital Personal Property
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From ARS Tech, "People hate DRM, but one IEEE study group has a possible fix for many of its problems: make digital content easy to steal from others. The moment that happens, consumers can be trusted with content." Read more.
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Pirated music may cripple Japanese phones
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by : NewsPig |
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From
CD Freaks, "The music industry, the Japanese government and telecoms are reportedly working together on a way to disable phones with pirated music on them." Read
more.
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Copyright law threatening
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by : NewsPig |
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From
Calgary Herald, "It is increasingly apparent that modern copyright law is utterly and completely incompatible with the right to privacy."
Read
more.
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Music industry calls for filesharing tax
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by : NewsPig |
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From
Inquirer, "THE LATEST CUNNING PLAN of the music industry is to get the government to bring in a tax to pay what it claims to have lost to 'pirates'. "
Read
more.
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iPod fee proposed to compensate artists for copying
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by : NewsPig |
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From
CTV, "When was the last time you made a mix tape? " Read
more.
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Could an iTunes subscription service save the record biz?
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by : JaGoFF |
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From
CNET , "According to an analysis in today's Billboard Online, the usual summer slump in digital download sales is more pronounced this year, and ringtone sales continue their steep decline." Read
more.
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UPDATE:
Chicago's
Promoter Ordinance
" Why the Event Promoters Ordinance
should be rejected"
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In response to the ridiculousness
of a proposed Chicago "Promoter
Ordinance", Law Professor,
Henry
H. Perritt, Jr has written a
fantastic white paper entitled,
"Why the Event Promoters Ordinace
Should be Rejected" Among
his findings? Well for one he finds
the proposed ordinance to be "UNCONSTITUTIONAL"
on many levels. For those of you
in the dark, Jim DeRogatis had the
right take on it when he called
it "a law that will pretty
much drop a bomb on Chicago’s
independent music community, if
not nuke it entirely". From
our view, this is NOT an understatement.
The entire nation's creative community
is effected by this. In the city
that helped to foster gospel, blues,
soul, rnb, house, industrial, etc...
this is completely unaccecptable.
PBS/Chicago
ran a piece on the issue last
week, if you need to catch
up.
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Other
Record Industry News From Around
The Web
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30 DIY music books free for the taking
Hands-On With Spotify for iPhone: Is iTunes Dead? - Wired
Sony Music is in a music row with Universal and a hit Latin pop sensation - DailyTech
A New Project: Cover tracks for 33 cents.
How
UK Government spun 136 people into 7m illegal file sharers - PC Pro
UK
Musicians Oppose Draconian Disconnect
Policy - EFF
Calls
grow to scrap 'potentially racist'
Form 696 as music industry suffers - Guardian
Toronto
Copyright Townhall: Canadian Record
Industry Mobilizes In Panic, Everyone
Loses Out - TechDirt
YouTube
music industry video agreement is
'a landmark deal' - Telegraph
How
'horrendous failure' led to Rock
Band - CNN
How
'horrendous failure' led to Rock
Band - POP Matters
Project
30-90 music festival aims to rock
on renewable energy - NOLA
MONKEYS
ARE METAL! - Skull N Bones
Music
Critic Explains Why The Music
Industry Is Better Off Embracing
Fans - TechDirt
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Want
to tap into the power of Bit Torrent?
Mininova is a torrent that welcomes
original content creators and publishers
to upload your content and have it distributed
to the masses. The only catch is that
you have to apply and be approved. Good
luck and go get 'em.
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Amie
St.
The folks at
Amie St. have struck on the golden idea
of selling indie music at prices that
are dictated by the marketplace. DRM FREE
of course. Highly Recommended for artist
and listener alike.
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