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Though the site may seems similar to those such as 8tracks and Spotify, the boys insist that Mugatunes stands alone. 
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Over the weekend we heard the news that Sony Pictures has been hacked by a group known as “GOP” (who aren’t the same people as the US Republican “Grand Old Party”, presumably). GOP claims to have stolen many of Sony’s “secrets”, including copies of films that haven’t been released, or at least released outside of cinemas yet.
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The music industry can turn to the technology startup incubator model and collaboration with academia to help solve its technology problem.
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The best way to support an artist is to pay then directly. — Ethan Diamond
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Blend is a music collaboration platform that allows you to upload your music publicly or privately and to collaborate with and remix the music of others. They've been in private beta but are now open to the general public.
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Crowd-funded concerts are the future, according to Dave Grohl. Is he serious? Are we?
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By Clyde Smith Are you a songwriter hoping to collaborate with others or a musician looking for a songwriter with which to collaborate? You’ve now got at least 3 more options you may not have known about to connect with songwriters.
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The unravelling of the music industry may have brought enormous change and disruption, but music still maintains an intrinsic value
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The alternative currency phenomenon is real, as weird as that might feel to those of us who would never consider shelling out cash for points to buy special pixels for that Farmville game we never really got around to playing. Bitcoin, despite the issues mentioned below, shows that alternative currencies can become quite real to certain people, which can then make them real enough in general, causing them to take on a value of their own outside the traditional financial system.
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The demise of the music industry can actually work for musicians as a moment of liberating grace. You can make a sane living in an unpredictable economy.
Gabriel Alejandro Del Valle's curator insight,
January 16, 2014 2:58 PM
The most interesting article is this one. It shows how musicians life are changing because they cant make money off music like they used to. Piracy has beaten all artist by allowing people to download music for free. I actually agree that the Music Industry is dying do to piracy and its hard to actually make a living with music. But on the other end music will never die as long as consumers can still listen.
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Six years ago, Maggie Vail and Jesse von Doom launched CASH Music, a nonprofit with the express goal of building open-source tools to help musicians reach their audience—and make a living. Vail originally cut her teeth at the Kill Rock Stars label, while von Doom’s background was in web development. Both wanted to streamline the musician-to-audience experience. And so they made the CASH (which stands for Coalition of Artists and Stakeholders) platform open-source, allowing artists and labels to build networks in their own unique and flexible ways.
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It has been 13 years since Metallica’s drummer, Lars Ulrich, identified the screen names of more than 300,000 Napster users in a copyright infringement lawsuit. The tarring he received in response — being derided as greedy and insensitive to fans — still makes musicians think twice before complaining about the problems with digital music.
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The authors have through this research determined that the artists in the Norwegian recording industry have 4 main sources of income: live revenue, state subsidization and grants, collection distributed to artists, and sales of music physically and digitally. It turned out the declining record sales, which dominate the media picture, only amounted to about 19% of the total artist income in 1999. Today after many years of decline it is 11% of the total income for artists. As such the media were right to point out that record sales are dropping and income will decline, however the total importance of this income source was never more than 20%. This is a reflection of the calculations that from a record sold from producer to retailer, only about 20% in average of the sales amount is returned to the record artists. Live revenue on the other hand has an artist share of about 50% from all income and hence all income increases here will have a larger effect both negatively and positively if the total amount in the industry changes.
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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is currently embroiled in another antitrust case, this time involving the iPod and its inability to play music from competing services.
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At one level Taylor Swift’s split with Spotify is the story of ongoing upheavals in the music industry and one artist’s approach to contain the impact. At another, it is symptomatic of a struggle for the relationship with the end customer that is going on across much of B2C.
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The BitShares Music Foundation, a non-profit organization, will be launching the BitShares Music blockchain shortly. It’s unit is the Note and it is the only way to interact with this blockchain. For the network to thrive, there must be an active ecosystem of users using Notes. To ensure this happens, the foundation will issue out 20% of Notes in a pre-sale. All Note sales are to be done in Bitcoin, from an address you control, not from an exchange.
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MIXLUV is launching a KICKSTARTER campaign on OCTOBER 7th to rally support for a new venture that will bring social music collaboration to life by offering musicians, songwriters and engineers the chance to meet, collaborate and centrally manage their world of music through the MIXLUV platform.
zorena mills's curator insight,
August 20, 2016 3:57 PM
A new site that will help any and all artist in collaborating with music. All in all even though there is are social media sites where there is ways to get your music can be heard. Yet there are so many up and coming artist that are never heard of or even are searching for others to work with and build a list to the work the artist has done. The pros are the connection with other artist. The cons are you never know who you will work with until you meet the person. This is about taking chances. 
Joseph Scott's curator insight,
October 13, 2016 10:50 PM
This channel goes to show the importance of networking and meeting the right people in the music industry.
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What makes a “maker”? By definition, the term can apply to artists, crafters, and anyone who creates anything. But the past decade has seen a more specific “maker movement” emerge amongst nerds and techies, one focused on making mediums like electronics, robotics, and 3D printing more accessible for hobbyists, connecting the dots between open-source tech projects and Etsy-centered handmade craft culture.
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The music industry has seen more upheaval than most industries in the last 20 years, from pirating to iTunes. Yet, another player has entered the game and changed everything: music streaming.
Antonio Abbatiello's curator insight,
October 11, 2014 12:25 PM
I enjoyed this article because it spoke about the differences between iTunes pirating and the newest addition music streaming. I believe this is a credible source because it was published in Forbes magazine which is a very credible source. I believe that Forbes is a good source for audio industry professionals because it speaks about the business side of the industry. I chose this article because it shows how the industry has gone from hard copies of albums to a device that is able to find any song by just searching.
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Irish music in a traditional idiom finds itself in the best of times and the worst of times. On the one hand Irish traditional music has become a global phenomenon, lending its symbolic and commercial weight, replete with what Irish cultural historian Luke Gibbons calls, “the communal Prozac of the heritage industry” (1996:172), to anything from Riverdance™ to Xena,™ Warrior Princess and its ethereal glances of uilleann pipe incidentals. Commercially speaking, the music has never been as popular, a boon for those determined to make a living playing the music that they live by. On the other hand we find that the embedded cultural practices and values that have supported the transmission and life of the music are being threatened as a result of the very embeddedness, their being taken for granted, that has guaranteed their lack of articulation thus far.
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In the decade and a half since Napster first emerged, forever changing the face of digital culture, the claim that “internet pirates killed the music industry” has become so ubiquitous that it is treated as common knowledge. Piracy is a scourge on legitimate businesses and hard-working artists, we are told, a “cybercrime” similar to identity fraud or even terrorism.
RACHEL BETTS's curator insight,
August 13, 2014 12:16 AM
Piracy: Copyright laws are not on your side. This is not a rebirth of Napster and the law is coming to get you! 
JustTheBeginning's curator insight,
February 9, 2016 9:54 PM
A great thing I could take away from this book has to be the way it throughly describes how ruthless the industry is becoming. The effort people are going to breakaway these restrictions ins't something that should just be overlooked no more how minor the issue seems to us as people who just inherently choice to abide the laws which are broken these are a big concern to us in a way as well.
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The musician fires back at David Byrne, Thom Yorke, David Lowery and others who argue the Web is bad for artists
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When the New York-based band Spirit Animal released “The Black Jack White” last spring, the band’s frontman didn’t have high hopes about the streaming music service. He loves the platform and subscribes to it but didn’t think Spotify would help his band this early in its career.
Colin Begin's curator insight,
October 8, 2013 11:59 AM
After reading this, it really shows the importance of social media in this generation. With so much technology today, spotify is a great way to get you're music out there. Social medias play a huge role, In this day and age, sites like facebook, twitter, and instagram, are the sites that most people go on and retrieve daily information about music as well as many other things. 
Courtney Aiello's curator insight,
October 10, 2013 11:41 AM
I originally subscribed to Spotify thinking it wouldn't last either, but with their user-generated playlists (something that Apple slowly erased from iTunes) it is gaining momentum. It's not suprising to learn, either, that Sean Parker was an early investor-Napster was the ancestor of Spotify. It will be interesting looking forward to see how many lesser-known bands will gain new followers from Spotify.
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With platforms such as Spotify and Last.fm acting as potential shields against the laziness of piracy, would it be too fool-hearty to propose that social media could help save the music industry?
Cami's curator insight,
August 16, 2015 3:26 PM
Does the money add up with all the decrease in CD sales. With everything going digital it's good to know what to do to help promote yourself digitally. |
