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Berkleemusic’s online classes start next week. Learn about music, the future and your part in it. Study with Berklee faculty from anywhere in the world. Improve your skills and become part of an online community of like-minded musicians. Learn to navigate the emerging digital music business, and gain effective techniques in publishing, marketing, management, touring, music supervision, […]
Music is a much smaller and less significant part of many people’s lives than 10-20 years ago. There is more competition for our attention and the value of music has declined precipitously. This graphic shows the rise of digital against physical music, and the overall impact of piracy, widespread distribution and digital media on the […]
“In a digital world there’s no up-front cost to have infinite inventory that replicates itself on demand as a perfect digital copy and it only does that after it’s been authorized to do so, which is usually with a purchase. It has really been a shift from having infrastructure and access to distribution to just […]
Many people have asked me to explain the current status of royalty payments for online music. A thorough discussion of this past year’s agreement on mechanical royalties was produced by my friends at the Future of Music Coalition. There is also a good summary on the meeting of the Copyright Royalty Board this past fall […]
MySpace had everything it needed to establish a truly revolutionary music model. Loads of indie artists and millions of fans all interacting online on the MySpace platform and the opportunity to connect them and enable commerce. Bands could post their tracks and sell them directly to their fans, all that was really missing was a […]
The state of the music business is obviously in transition, but new models are beginning to work at various levels that shine a very positive light on the future of the music industry. For example, some of the predictions made in the Future of Music Book and in other places are beginning to come to […]
Challenge the conventional thinking about the business of music, and explore new ways of creating, financing, promoting, and distributing it.
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