Authors Guild: We don’t want to be like RIAA - Zd Net Asia.com

The Authors Guild agreed to a controversial settlement with Google because it feared repeating the mistakes that the music industry has made in dealing with digital works, it said last Friday. Google and the Authors Guild have struggled to get final

Did The Recording Industry Really Miss The Opportunity To ‘Monetize - Tech Dirt
There’s been a lot of talk in the last year or so about the fact that the recording industry supposedly “missed an opportunity” to “monetize” online music a decade ago when it failed to come to an agreement on licensing with Napster. The idea was

Music’s lost decade: Sales cut in half in 2000s - Inside Fidelity
If you watched the Grammy Awards Sunday night, it would appear all is well in the recording industry. But at the end of last year, the music business was worth half of what it was ten years ago and the decline doesn’t look like it will be slowing

Listen for less - Boston Globe
Since Shawn Fanning created Napster while he was a student at Northeastern University in 1999, Boston has been a nexus of digital music downloading. But that world has changed dramatically. Napster still exists, but downloading songs has gone from

Music’s lost decade: Sales cut in half - CNN Money
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — If you watched the Grammy Awards Sunday night, it would appear all is well in the recording industry. But at the end of last year, the music business was worth half of what it was ten years ago and the decline doesn’t look

Music Industry Responds To Decade-Long Sales Slump - 411mania.com
What killed the biz and what can bring it back A recent article in CNN Money dealt with the declining sales within the music industry. The industry has reported a loss every year since 2000, with sales and licensing plummeting from $14.6 billion

1st play of charity single cheers Haiti - The Sun
The three-year-old was one of thousands on the stricken isle thrilled by our star-studded cover of REM’s hit Everybody Hurts after we got it played on their national radio. You need Flash Player 8 or higher to view video content with the ROO Flash

Authors Guild: To RIAA or Not to RIAA - HomepageDaily
The RIAA won victory after victory, defeating Napster and Grokster with groundbreaking legal rulings. The RIAA also went after countless individuals, chasing down infringement wherever they could track it down,” the guild said in a blog post Friday

Grandma’s new Siemens - IT Pro
My mother in law got a new washing machine yesterday. Not normally the topic of a magazine devoted to IT professionals but stay with the thought. Most men, let’s face it, are mere amateurs when using a washing machine. We take one look at the