In the last week a major report has been released in the UK on the state of IP and economic growth. This is really quite significant because what it serves to do is to look at the issues of copyright and patenting not from the subjective point of view of corporations in the content industry, [...]
I came across an interview with Michael Chugg earlier today, via a posting in Facebook. (Amazing that Facebook now appears to spread news in the long tail better than any other technology). He was talking about the lack of support for new and emerging musicians by commercial radio in Australia. Obviously a comment of this [...]
In Australia we are in the early stages of a federal election. The interesting thing about this election is that it was preceded first by a “palace coup” in which the deputy Prime Minister essentially ousted the existing and elected PM. This took place, it appears, as the result of the party apparatchiks determining that [...]
Amazing to think that it wasn't too long ago that EMI Records ruled the waves… This was the company that in the '60's brought us the Beatles, The Beach Boys, Gerry And the Pacemakers, Freddy And The Dreamers… Pink Floyd, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Cliff Richard, The Band… And then more recently artists such as [...]
You may have seen reference in the media to a new Rolling Stones documentary “Stones In Exile” shot during the year long orgy that the band conducted during the recording of Exile On Main Street – which is about to be re-released. As you would expect the Stones have been doing some PR to support [...]
You are an aspiring songwriter, and you get a shot at writing the theme song for a new TV series. It might be successful. It might not. You don’t know, but you do know that the guy who came up with the idea had one of the longest running series in the history of British [...]
Amazing isn't it…? There are only two major recording artists that are not legally available as digital downloads – one is AC/DC and the other is The Beatles. But someone has now put together all of the Beatles songs and videos into a “YouTube” styled interface so that you can access them all in one [...]
I had a coffee with Laurel Papworth yesterday to catch up on life in general, but also to tap her brain with regard to a project that I am putting together. The project is in regard to a possible infringement action on behalf of a songwriter that I signed back in 1979. The first song [...]
Historically, music publishing catalogues are valued at a multiple of the NPS (Net Publisher Share) with the multiple increasing or decreasing according to the perception of the future earnings potential. The NPS is the gross margin the publisher keeps after the songwriter has been paid and is made up of a basket of Performing Rights [...]
(Our previous article was the first upset.) This time, Canadians have made the top ten list of countries that are “out to get” the content industries. They share this dubious honour with the following countries. Priority Watch List (Links retrieve country specific pdf reports.) Argentina Canada Chile Costa Rica [...]