A joint statement by the The Society of Authors (SoA) and The Irish Writers’ Union points out that, should England leave the EU without a deal, it could “result in the U.K. adopting an ‘international exhaustion’ framework, meaning that books not intended for sale in the U.K. could enter the country at discounted rates, and publishers would be unable to set different rates for books bound for different countries.”
September, 2018
Next Big Sound opens up its Pandora data on artists
Music-streaming service Pandora’s analytics division Next Big Sound is opening up its data, in an effort to give Pandora metrics a higher profile within the music industry. Until now, artists, managers and labels could see metrics like spins, interactive plays, thumbs ups and station adds for their own artists and tracks, but not others. That’s now opening up.
Apple’s buyout of Shazam: 5 reasons it could change music streaming forever
Apple gaining a better understanding of the artists its consumers follow – as well as the type of music they listen to, and when they’re most active – could inform any number of useful things. Think territory-specific artist exclusives, artist-led video content, 24-7 Beats 1 radio programming schedules, or even a completely new music discovery service.
Source: Apple’s buyout of Shazam: 5 reasons it could change music streaming forever
How Does Blockchain Affect Media and Entertainment? IBM Explains
Chad Andrews, IBM’s global solutions leader for advertising, said blockchain could be used in media and entertainment for storing consumer data in a way that could wrest some power back from the currently dominant data-collection giants like Facebook and Google. “Data [about consumers] can be combined, but different people own it,” Andrews said. “We have to be able to tokenize those data sets into discrete assets that can be traded in the market.”
Re:Create Coalition: Copyright Office still integral to the broader Library of Congress
The Copyright Office’s weak past performance and technology struggles should not be rewarded with more autonomy, but instead answered with continued oversight from the library. MPAA and RIAA’s attempt to create an independent register is a legislative solution in search of an actual problem.
Source: Copyright office continues to be an integral part of the broader Library of Congress
After the copyright win, what strategy for Europe’s media sector?
What the media sector needs is not chiefly subsidies, but faster innovation, thinking across boundaries, across borders. And the EU can help innovate. How? By encouraging publishers and journalists to come together, by ensuring a fair regulatory framework for the media, and by supporting where appropriate investment in technology and skills.
Source: After the copyright win, what strategy for Europe’s media sector?
Blockchain Music Competitors On The Rise
The disconnect between companies and consumers is an ever-present problem in the music/tech industry, with companies like Snapchat frequently having to do damage control in the wake of unpopular updates. Several startup companies are working to capitalize on this disconnect and create a more wholesome option for consumers, several of them doing so with the help of blockchain tech.
Classical Music Streamer IDAGiO Raises $11.7M, Launches in North America
Searching complex and overlapping classical music catalogs can be a problem on traditional streamers. IDAGIO says they’ve solved that problem with better data, curation and proprietary technology. Users can compare more than 290 versions of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, for example.
Source: Classical Music Streamer IDAGiO Raises $11.7M, Launches in North America
The Washington Post’s ambitions for Arc have grown — to a Bezosian scale
It is increasingly the tech stack of choice for major news publishers. But now Arc wants to be the backbone of your digital advertising and subscriptions, too. Just as content management systems took a once difficult task (updating a webpage) and made it one-click easy, this new offering aims to make paywall adjustments simple to pull off on the fly.
Source: Newsonomics: The Washington Post’s ambitions for Arc have grown — to a Bezosian scale
UK newspaper industry demands levy on tech firms
The British newspaper industry’s trade body has said the government should force social media sites such as Facebook and Google to pay an annual financial levy to fund journalism, and set up a regulator that would force them to take legal responsibility for all the content on their platforms.