This week, Q News and 17 other small Australian news publishers clubbed together to form the Public Interest Publishers Alliance, which wants to collectively negotiate licensing deals with Google and Facebook. With support from the Minderoo Foundation – the charity of mining billionaire Andrew Forrest – the group will take advantage of new collective bargaining rules recently introduced by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).
Source: News media bargaining code: New publisher alliance takes on big tech
The Jonas Brothers are giving fans a new way to access exclusive videos — charging $5 per month for the privilege — on Scriber, a smartphone-based subscription startup. Jonas Brothers followers who subscribe via Scriber are promised “unique, behind-the-scenes videos and updates” directly from the singing trio.
In this era of low attention spans, Tiktok and Snapchat, there is one industry that still commands attention- gaming. Music can take many lessons from this- make music listening immersive, make music itself interactive rather than immersive, make the release of new things an event. This is what people really mean when they talk about the metaverse, the other buzzword of our times.
One of the distinguishing features between the metaverse and real world is that everything in the metaverse will have been 100% manufactured and, therefore, will have a “creator” of some shape or form. Consequently, almost all elements of the metaverse are likely to be someone’s intellectual property (IP), which raises the “IP is everywhere” problem.
The 2022 report highlights the Confederation’s diverse services including lobbying, development of best practices, technology, and the systems to support data exchanges, help identify works and pay royalties quickly and accurately. CISAC has reported “steady progress” for the extension of the ISWC music identifier and improvements in music data reporting. It follows a major upgrade to the system completed in 2020.
Hipgnosis says it has acquired “100% of all of Timberlake’s copyright, ownership and financial interests of the Writer and Publisher’s Share of Public Performance income, and the catalog of musical compositions written by Justin Timberlake”. Also included in the sale to Hipgnosis are the worldwide administration rights to the compositions, subject to the remaining Term of Universal Music Publishing Group’s administration rights.