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AOIR 8 Vancouver, 50 Parties, etc. (Oct. 2007)

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

Heya. I am presenting in a panel at AOIR this year (the title of my presentation/paper is "The Technical Micropolitics of the Online Music Industry, 1997-2007", abstract here). For those of you who've followed my blog, you'll know something of what to expect, except that I'll be strictly framing up ...

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On Last.fm and royalty payments

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Clear Channel didn't get away with it, and now Last.fm is taking heat for not paying out royalties to independent artists. Last.fm, recently purchased by CBS, is now heating up indie music business blogs with this policy, even though it's been in place since the company started. Why so, asks the ...

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FMC, A2IM force Clear Channel to pay royalties to independent musicians

Friday, July 20th, 2007

There's some great news in Future of Music Coalition's latest newsletter about Clear Channel's treatment of independent musicians. In just ten short days of campaigning (including blogging, negotiating with the radio giant directly, and filing a Request for a Declaratory Ruling at the FCC) the organization (with help from A2IM) ...

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20 Years of Scratch Records

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

There's a pretty good yarn in last Wednesday's Vancouver Courier about Scratch Records, an independent music institution in Vancouver for 20 years now. For those of us old enough to recall Scratch's origins as the-little-indie-store-that-could below street level in Gastown, it's great, and inspiring to see this label/shop/distributor steadfastly navigating ...

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