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Lots of buzz about the Chely Wright situation. We’re shocked, shocked to hear that someone in the fan club encouraged folks to pose as military family members to encourage jocks to play the single. Of course, this has been going…

Our IndieBiz.com members participated in a great conversation about songwriting royalties the other day. Here’s an example I wish we could have discussed — did you know that Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, one of the folks who legislates issues affecting…

Seth Godin spent a few days in the room with record industry executives who wanted to rediscover what it is they’re actually selling. The Smoking Gun Lefsetz is there…

David is really serious about this, folks. He puts a lot of energy into telling new members about the service, but we both agreed that we can help folks better by putting as much energy as possible into helping the…

I keep nudging you about unusual merch opportunities: here’s what Joe Perry’s up to…

Apparently, the half of pool of musicians who told the Pew Survey that they don’t want their audiences sharing music is about to beat down the half of the pool of musicians that do. Sigh. Come on, kids. There’s plenty…

The Pew Research Center has released results from its study of musicians’ attitudes towards file sharing, and the numbers don’t surprise. Artists are split between folks (like Don Henley and Metallica) who believe file swapping needs to be stopped now,…

CD Baby announced yesterday that they are teaming up with Bitpass to make the 300,000+ tracks in CD Baby’s digital distribution library available at BitPass’ online music store, Mperia.  This partnership brings increased revenue opportunities and valuable new exposure for…

Wired covers the "kinder, gentler" copyright bill on its way to the House.

Universal’s new digital skunk works releases some online-only titles today. [via PaidContent]

Remember those songs you used to have posted at MP3.com? They’re ba…ack…

Just when you thought the holiday season would be safe from goofy new legislation, the guv’mint wants to keep you from skipping commercials on your TiVo and put your audience in pound-ya-in-the-a** prison for three to ten years for sharing…