Catalogue sales keep dominating the news, but would anyone actually invest directly in a musician or a band? What would the return need to be to get interest for this? And, can we move beyond investing related to future streaming revenues? Perhaps towards tokenized fandoms? Source: Would you invest […]
New York City-headquartered Primary Wave and Los Angeles-based Oaktree Capital Management revealed their multimillion-dollar agreement on June 11. The transaction will see Oaktree – which in May of 2020 fronted most of a $260 million loan to Endeavor, per reports – take a minority interest in […]
Music execs: Article 17 exceptions could create new safe harbor
Out of the 27 Member States, only The Netherlands, Hungary and very recently Germany have fully adopted the Directive; France has adopted some of the provisions and some additional legislative steps for the remaining ones; Italy has also gone through some legislative steps and a Government Decree […]
The evidence of history is that every great new technology ultimately expands the market for entertainment. It is also full of examples of established players seeking to thwart the rise of new means of consuming content. While music lost vital years fighting the internet, the games business […]
In the interview, published on Saturday, the graphics card chief described a future that is not too distant from the NFT space right now: “The art that you have is a digital art. You own it using NFT. You’ll display that beautiful art, that’s one of a kind, and it’s completely […]
Whether it’s filmed under contract or created DIY-style, like a cam show, porn that is altered and shared without the consent of the performers is an affront materially as well as morally. Deepfakes can be difficult to defeat from a defamation angle, so perhaps a more effective remedy would be to […]
House lawmakers on Friday introduced sweeping antitrust legislation aimed at restraining the power of Big Tech and staving off corporate consolidation. If passed, the bills would be the most ambitious update to monopoly laws in decades. The bills — five in total — take direct aim at Amazon, […]
By changing the way music sales were counted, SoundScan changed the way music was sold. It established a clear and transparent way to count sales that couldn’t easily be gamed by stores, which in turn changed the practice of tabulating sales “from a subjective methodology to an objective […]
New initiative focuses on 'prioritizing transparency with creators'
