The decentralized music service Voise.it has released an on-demand radio station as its ICO enters its eleventh day. Voise, one of a number of Blockchain projects seeking to use the technology to revolutionize music content sharing and rights protection, has named the new product Radio DAO.
Source: Blockchain Music Gets Radio Station as Decentalized Platform Voise Continues ICO
The topic of U.S. District Court judge Charles Breyer’s latest decision is itself authorship, and with a crazy number of pop culture references, he explores a situation wherein game players become creative gods and the attendant implications.
Over the past several years, institutions in both the US and the UK have been trying to figure out how to use DNA to solve the art world’s forgery problem. The objective: to develop a tamper-proof label or tag with a unique DNA signature that artists can apply to their work before it leaves the studio.
Source: Injecting Your Painting With DNA Could End Art Forgery | artnet News
Troy Carter, Spotify’s global head of creator services, conceded in his keynote interview today’ at the Music Biz Convention, that artists aren’t being paid enough by streaming services. In a follow-up comment, however, he successfully evaded assigning blame to Spotify or any other streaming service or labels by saying, “We need to reconfigure the value chain.”
Source: Spotify’s Troy Carter Concedes Artists Aren’t Being Paid Enough By Streaming Services | Billboard
Members of the European Parliament will vote today on draft rules that would allow citizens to enjoy legally purchased music and movie streaming subscriptions when they travel to another EU country. It’s hoped that improved access to content will help to dampen frustrations and reduce Internet piracy.
Source: EU Votes Today On Content Portability to Reduce Piracy – TorrentFreak
European Commission president Jean-Claude Junker this week named Bulgarian minister Mariya Gabriel as his candidate for Commissioner for the Digital Economy and Society responsible for overseeing the commission’s Digital Single Market initiative. Gabriel, whose appointment must still be approved by the European Parliament, would replace Günther Oettinger, who had overseen the DSM strategy since its launch in 2015 but was reassigned the budget portfolio earlier this year, and will report to Andrus Ansip, the commission vice president in overall charge of DSM.
Mariya Gabriel
The appointment of Gabriel comes one week after the EC issued a mid-term review of the DSM strategy, in which it called for swift action by the European Parliament and member states to enact its various recommendations.
“The Commission has lived up to its promise and presented all main initiatives for building a Digital Single Market,” Ansip said in the review. “Now, the European Parliament and Member States need to adopt these proposals as soon as possible, for new jobs, business and innovation to take off across Europe.”
The DSM project has been a focus of controversy from the start, as telecom providers, technology companies and copyright owners have all raised objections to one or more of the commission’s 35 legislative proposals and policy initiatives. Agreement on those proposals among the commission, the European Parliament, and the Council for the European Union has been slow in coming. To date, agreement has been reached on only three:
Still pending are controversial proposals to harmonize local copyright regimes among the member states to facilitate EU-wide licensing and distribution of content; an end to geo-blocking that results in consumers paying different prices for digital goods in different EU territories; an update to the cable and satellite directive to facilitate cross-border access to TV and radio programming; an update to the rules regarding content distribution and advertising arrangements; and telecom reform, among others.
Gabriel is currently serving her second term as a member of the European Parliament, where she has focused primarily on visa matters and foreign affairs.
In an interview with Politico Europe Gabriel insisted that her lack of a technical background would not be a handicap in her new position.
Being a commissioner, she told the publication, was “primarily a political job, not a technical one,” adding she was looking forward to working on digital issues because “it’s a field that represents the future.”
Sony/ATV Music Publishing has upgraded its SCORE royalty portal, giving songwriters access to easy-to-navigate, real-time data about their earnings. The portal provides detailed data for both current earnings and historic information that can be sorted and organized by song title, income source, time period and territory.
Source: Sony/ATV Upgrades Royalty Portal to Give Writers ‘Unparalleled’ Access to Data | Billboard
Just as the history of Les Miserables shows how much publishing has changed over the past two decades, it also demonstrates that the challenge of infringement, often presented as a new problem created by digital networks, also existed 150 years ago.
Source: Les Miserables and the Future of Publishing – Disruptive Competition Project
The startup, which claims to have more than 6 million monthly viewers, is expanding the ad-supported service with VOD as it positions itself as a kind of Spotify for premium video. It’s worth noting that Ken Parks, Pluto’s executive chairman, was Spotify’s first U.S. employee and led the music streamer’s negotiations with record labels.
Source: Pluto TV Launches Free Movies, TV Shows On-Demand | Variety
Dart Music, once considered the most promising tech startup in the Nashville music scene, has begun the process of selling off their assets after filing for bankruptcy protection in February.
Source: Once Promising Nashville Music Tech Startup Dart Music Selling Assets In Chapter 11 – hypebot