A blog. About music and the music industry. Sometimes idealistic. Sometimes realistic, but always with passion. This blog can help you to set up a musical career and will keep you in touch with the most relevant developments in the dynamic world that music is. It is intended to give an insight into the prejudices and misunderstandings which exist in and over the music industry and to support, advise and motivate composers, authors, publishers and other professionals.
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Buma Jr. is an entire new and free initiative of Buma/Stemra. It’s especiallyment to advise young composers and authors about author rights and to help them get their musical careers. With Buma Jr. we want to create a springboard for young composers and authors. Each day I talk to a lot of young talent who create their own songs but haven’t had much air on radio and TV or live yet. We would like to help these young talented songwriters. So we offer the members of Buma Jr. acces to a a network of experts and professionals in the music industry, they receive a wealth of exclusive benefits such as discounts on equipment and studio time and get tips and advice on copyright and writing songs.
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In the autumn of 2010 Buma/Stemra came up with a new initiative for composers and authors: Buma on Tour. Organiser Wim van Limpt: ‘With Buma on Tour we guide composers and writers in the world of copyright. This takes place at diverse locations throughout the country in for example, a 1-on1 meeting with our staff. However, Buma on Tour includes more that.’
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With 2000 song writers, 2300 unique website customers per day, web surfers from more than 130 countries, 150 participants in the final assignment, 10 finalists and 9 international special guests, the first Dutch Writers Camp of Buma/Stemra in October 2009 was a success.
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The Russian based “Pirate Pay” startup is promising the entertainment industry a pirate-free future. With help from Microsoft, the developers have built a system that claims to track and shut down the distribution of copyrighted works on BitTorrent. The company has developed a technology which allows them to attack existing BitTorrent swarms, making it impossible for people to share files. Their first project, carried out in collaboration with Walt Disney Studios and Sony Pictures, successfully stopped tens of thousands of downloads.
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Anyone expecting to see a radical change in listening habits in the move from music ownership to music access, may be disappointed. The first ever weekly top 100 chart of streamed plays is broadly similar to the chart of downloads purchases and, therefore, the overall singles chart. Streaming appears to give more of a boost to current hits than to older songs. The chart is compiled from both free and ad-funded services including Spotify, We7, Napster, Deezer, Zune and ChartsNow.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee will hold a hearing on Universal Music Group’s proposed acquisition of rival EMI Music, adding another step to a lengthy regulatory review of the $1.9 billion deal.
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EMI Music Publishing could lose its grip on one of the most famous pieces of film music ever created — “The Pink Panther Theme,” written by the late Henry Mancini for the 1963 film. Mancini’s publishing company, Northridge Music Inc., controlled by the composer’s heirs, filed a claim at the American Arbitration Association that seeks more than $1.35 million in unpaid “net profits” on music for the original Pink Panther film. The heirs also want EMI’s administration rights terminated due to alleged malfeasance and breach of fiduciary duty. The jazzy theme music made the singles charts in 1963 and won three Grammy Awards.
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Court filings have shown that MP3tunes Inc, the ‘online music locker’, has filed for bankruptcy in a US court but its ongoing battle with EMI Group over copyright will still go ahead. Regardless of the bankruptcy filing, MP3tunes and chief executive Michael Robertson are still liable to go to court to face allegations of copyright violation in a suit that was originally brought by EMI in 2007 and was joined by fourteen other record companies and music publishers. MP3tunes is noted for being one of the first companies to offer the ‘locker’ or ‘cloud’-based music service that is offered today by the likes of Google, Amazon and Apple. The company was launched in 2005 by Robertson after having stepped down as CEO of MP3.com.
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