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More Discussion about Film & TV Licensing

Licensing

Alexandra Patsavas, probably the most influential music supervisor working today, took some time to answer questions at the Billboard/Hollywood Reporter Film & TV Music Conference, along with estate manager Jeffrey Jampol.
It’s interesting to see how that discussion played out. Jampol, whose job is to protect the heritage of his legacy rock estates, cautioned acts against [...]

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When Does a 360 Music Deal Make Sense?

Featured Article

For major touring acts, it’s a no brainer. Ditch the major labels, cash a fat advance check, and head out on the road.

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Learn How to License Your Music to Television and Film

Featured Article

From a return on investment point of view, music licensing can be easier for some musicians than playing gigs or trying to get radio airplay.

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Music Business Education Reaching High Schools

Featured Article

After hearing so much great response from our profile of Drexel’s campus-based music business program, I’m noticing more stories about schools that model their student-run record labels and booking agencies along the same principles. This week, the Los Angeles Times profiles a school that’s offering the same kind of real world experience, only at a [...]

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Bebo Sale Spotlights Online Music Licensing Controversy

Licensing

Two years ago, as Billy Bragg tells it, the founder of British social networking site Bebo came to him for advice about avoiding the same music licensing pitfalls that Bragg had railed about during the evolution of MySpace. As I wrote previously, Bragg’s lobbying resulted in MySpace clarifying its terms of service so artists could [...]

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Drexel’s Student-Run Record Label Reshaping Music Business Education

CD Releases

When I was in school — and I did have to walk uphill in the snow to get to class, so get off my lawn — the campus radio station was where you had to be if you wanted a career in the music business. I chose Ithaca over Syracuse and Temple as soon as [...]

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Download “Falling Slowly” from the Once Soundtrack for Free

Indie Music Resources

This week’s sponsor:

Seems like everyone’s on the free bandwagon this week. I don’t know if this was on the site before the Oscar win, but you can download a copy of “Falling Slowly” in MP3 with no DRM, right from the Fox Searchlight website.

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Getty Images Buys Pump Audio

Licensing

It’s a $42 million price tag for Pump Audio, the little independent music rights clearing house that could. I remember that, when they first launched, Pump Audio looked dangerously like one of the song sharks we often write about here. But they reached out to the independent music community and did a great job building [...]

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How Local Record Stores Can Stay in Business

Selling CDs

It’s not the first time we’ve covered the issue here, but amidst the horror story that has become the chart of overall music sales, there’s a quiet confidence among the owners of America’s finest record stores. The Columbia Free Times devotes an exceptional amount of space to the truth that a record store owner who [...]

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Where can you still make money in the music business?

News

While our regular readers ask me that question all the time, another group of people is just as curious about the answer — Wall Street.
Clem Chambers from the investment website ADVFN offers a guest commentary in Forbes Magazine about his ideas for the real winners and losers in the entertainment industry shakeout. While he’s not [...]

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