Dae Bogan of ChazBo Music presents “Social Media 101” panel w/ Director of Artist Relations of Myspace.com, Roslynn Cobarrubias AND President of SKEE.TV, Ryan Tomlinson at iStandard Producers’ Beat Camp
Dae Bogan of ChazBo Music will present and moderate the “Social Media 101” panel with guest co-panelists Roslynn Cobarrubias (Director of Artist Relations at Myspaceand Producer/Co-Host of Third Floor Radio at Skee 24/7) and Ryan Tomlinson (President of Skee.TV) at iStandard Producers Beat Camp at SAE Institute Los Angeles.
This event is open to the public. To view the full schedule of events and to purchase tickets, visit www.beatcampla.com
Dae Bogan moderates panel “Networking & Brand Building” featuring GRAMMY Award Winning Producers The Midi Mafia at iStandard Producers’ Beat Camp
Dae Bogan will moderate the “Networking & Building Your Brand” w/ The Midi Mafia panel at iStandard Producers Beat Camp at SAE Institute Los Angeles on Saturday, September 14th.
This event is open to the public. To view the full schedule of events and to purchase tickets, visit www.beatcampla.com
The Midi Mafia Bio:
Consisting of Brooklyn native Bruce Waynne and Canadian transplant Dirty Swift, this unlikely production duo shot to prominence during the summer of 2003 as their megasmash single “21 Questions” by 50 Cent was getting radio spins across the country. Sitting on top of the Billboard charts for weeks on end with their first placement as a duo offered Bruce and Swift a unique perspective on the benefits of teamwork and also validated their individual struggles in the cutthroat world of music and entertainment. Prior to having met inside a tiny attic studio in a Brooklyn neighborhood while working with the same artist, former indie rapper Bruce Waynne and ex-Canadian Champion DJ Dirty Swift were on seemingly parallel paths to success but both looking for the missing ingredient that would become their tipping point. Says Swift of their partnership, “we both do the same thing but we approach it from different perspectives and it allows us to focus on our strengths.” As the single “21 Questions” shot up the charts in the summer of 2003, it was clear they had found the magic formula they had both been striving to create and The MIDI Mafia was born. Read More…
NMPA Sues Fullscreen: Easy Fix
The National Music Publishers Association has sued Fullscreen, Inc. for the monetization of YouTube channels containing thousands of videos with thousands of copyrighted music covered or synched. The way I see it, Fullscreen has 1 of 2 options to resolve this (which I believe will be handled out of court via a nice settlement):
- Enter into an agreement with NMPA to make sure royalties are flowing to publishers through Harry Fox Agency (the same thing YouTube did last year upon suit from NMPA)
- Enter into direct synch and mechanical license deals with publishers and record companies, like it has already done with Universal Music Publishing earlier this year.
The consequence of both fixes will be a reduction in ad revenue it generates from the over 15,000 YouTube channels with which Fullscreen has monetization agreements.
Read the piece in LA Times.
Grooveshark And The Inherent Problem With User-Generated Content (UGC)
It appears that Grooveshark is a platform that allows end-users to upload and share songs. The problem with that model (if early Napster didn’t teach us anything) is that while even if another end-user pays for the download; Grooveshark is still infringing on the copyright owner rights of reproduction and distribution. Further, one could argue that by allowing website visitors to stream the song before buying and downloading it; Grooveshark is also infringing on public performance rights. And that’s just the songwriter/publisher side. I do not believe Grooveshark is acquiring mechanical licenses for each song it allows to be purchased and downloaded; so they’ll also have a problem with the record labels.
I’m interested to see where this all goes. Read, “Grooveshark Signs an Agreement With the Largest Music Publisher In the World…” on Digital Music News website http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2013/20130828grooveshark
IFPI Digital Music Report 2o13: Global Recorded Music Revenues Climb For The First Time Since 2013
One of the statistics that stood out to me in this piece was that “performance rights income increased in value by an estimated 9.2% in 2012 and now accounts for around 6% of overall industry revenues, up from 3% in 2007.” This increase is directly related to the growth of digital streaming platforms both into new markets (the piece states that streaming platforms are in 100 countries compared to 23 countries the year before) as well as the increase in users (paid and unpaid).
Pandora, Rdio, Mog, Spotify, iTunes Radio, etc. all pay a micro-penny statutory rate to SoundExchange and a negotiated royalty rate (either based on percentage of revenue or usage-based) to ASCAP/BMI/SESAC for digital public performance. They pay similarily to foreign PROs as well. Read More…
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