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Tag Archives: licensing
Synchtank – a music tech start-up by music people for music people
We’re following up our post about Hitlantis with an interview with another music tech start-up who pitched at the last Music 4.5 event. Synchtank is another software focused start-up with big ambitions. By Charlotta Hedman Some will probably get what … Continue reading
Guest comment: How to stay relevant in changing times
By David Keevill In 2005, Trent Reznor on NIN’s magnificent With Teeth snarled at us, asking ‘You Know What You Are?’ In July of 2011, he asked the same question again, but this time it was less of a global … Continue reading
Guest comment: The importance of transparency
By David Keevill In a world where every little scrap of information can be inferred from a man’s life, barring the interference of super-injunctions that is, it’s entirely baffling why there is still this air of mystique that surround the … Continue reading
Licensing from a start-up’s point of view
By Darshan Sanghrajka Imagine you’re a tech start-up. Imagine you have some very smart coders. Imagine you have a great product idea. Now imagine, that you’re bootstrapping the whole idea. What’s to imagine? It can be done. Now imagine you’re … Continue reading
Insight from the collective licensing debate
After our Music 4.5 events we’ve asked friends and participants to put together their thoughts and epiphanies. This is the first insight by The House London’s chief chimpanzee Darshan Sanghrajka. The death of collective licensing can only be decided by … Continue reading
Creative Commons and why we can’t just all get along
By Charlotta Hedman When Creative Commons took a leap over the Atlantic to Europe it ran into some unexpected problems in the music sector. This has given Paul Keller, a copyright policy advisor and one of the directors of Amsterdam … Continue reading
The European perspective on the Hargreaves Report
By Mars Mertens Following the Copyright discussions in Europe from various perspectives it’s quite interesting to see the comments and recommendations in the DIGITAL OPPORTUNITY Report. The report is written from the perspective of the UK Creative Industries. However the … Continue reading
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Positive reactions to the Hargreaves report
During the last six months Ian Hargreaves, professor of digital economy at Cardiff University, has had the eyes of the IP industry on him. He’s been tasked with writing a report for UK prime minister David Cameron on how IP … Continue reading
Is it time to re-brand the way we monetise music?
It’s not just the UK economy that shrunk during 2010, the music industry also faces revenue losses. According to the IFPI Digital Music Report 2011 the global recorded music trade revenues fell by an estimated eight to nine percent last … Continue reading
What the music industry should do about copyright
By Charlotta Hedman Copyright is confusing. Is it working, isn’t it working and if it isn’t working, what should be done about it? We decided that the best way to make some sense of this complicated and often vicious debate … Continue reading