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Lala Could Help Apple Redefine Ownership of Content | Mobile Technology News

15 minutes ago ago from Latest mobile technology news and headlines, all in one place.

Having transformed the music business once with iTunes and iPods, Apple is getting ready to do so again with a web-based service, according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal. If so, the influential online music store could again change the industry by changing what it means to own a song. About a week ago, Apple bought music-streaming service Lala in a move that was widely interpreted as signaling the computer maker's intent to make ...

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Avoid Getting Sued for Playing Music for your Business

16 hours ago ago from Music

If you are a business owner or manager and are currently playing music in your venues or considering implementing music on hold, you need to be aware that the music you use must be licensed, or it will be considered illegal use of copyrighted music. If caught, you could be facing steep fines or possible legal action. The music industry is coming down hard on businesses that are unaware of or disregard proper licensing of copyrighted music, as ...

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Speaker Biographies Part 6 - Miami Music Festival and Conference (Miazine.com)

17 hours ago ago from MiaZine.com - The Original Miami e-Zine

M I A Z I N E . C O M Derrick Floyd Derrick Floyd is a singer/songwriter who has been involved with music for as long as he can remember, landing now as the National Product Specialist for leading music software company, IK Multimedia. Using his trademark, easy going style, songwriting and playing talents, Derrick continues to tour the country demonstrating the IK Multimedia product line to schools, universities, events, trainings and ...

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Legal Aspects of the Music Industry

2 hours ago ago from Resources For Your Entertainment And Music

Music Business Whether you realize it or not, the creative side and the business side of the music business is inevitable linked. Unfortunately, for artists, the business side of the industry is boring and overly technical but that does not change the fact that you must be informed to stay successful. These two sides become linked with talk of music contracts. Music contracts are legal documents that specify terms and conditions for all ...

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4 Ways One Big Database Would Help Music Fans, Industry

7 hours ago ago from The Music Industry Report

wired MySpace Music’s acquisition of imeem revealed, for the umpteenth time, a major problem with the music business — not piracy, nor the ongoing failure of pure-play ad-supported music services, but rather that each digital music service grows in its own data silo. This impacts us in all sorts of negative ways. In this latest example, some imeem users are upset that their carefully constructed playlists are gone, for now anyway. ...

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What will power next-generation businesses?

1 day ago ago from ZDNet Blogs

This is a new Internet-powered business landscape. Self-organizing peer production is the motive force and network effects are the new market share. The ongoing and seemingly inexorable decline of traditional media continues to be the canonical example of what happens when the ground rules get changed in an industry that is fundamentally unable to adapt to new market conditions. A great analysis recently posted by Umair Haque at Harvard ...

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