Category Archives: Musician Issues

Future of Music: Newsletter #120 (March 11, 2014)

Greetings, FMC friends! After a long and cold winter, many of us are excited to be escaping to the sunshine of Austin, Texas this week for great music, excellent tacos, and a jampacked SXSW schedule. Meanwhile, there’s plenty of excitement heating up in the world of policy. Read on for all the latest happenings.

1.  FMC On The Road: SXSW
2.  Artist Revenue Streams: New Case Study!
3.  Comcast/Time Warner Cable Merger: Bad News For Musicians
4.  On Copyright: Congressional Hearings Resume
5.  Health Care Update
6.  Best of the Blog
7.  Work for FMC
8.  SF MusicTech: Register Now!
9.  How Are We Doing?

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Musician Issues: DMCA – The Top 10 Stories on the Must Read List (Digital Millennium Copyright Act)

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This week congress will hear testimony on the DMCA as part of it’s on going review of the Copyright Act. Here’s 10 essential posts and articles to read to understand the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Google Receives Its 100 Millionth Piracy Notice. Nothing Changes… | DMN Safe Harbor Not Loophole: Five Things We Could Do […]

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Musician Issues: What YouTube Really Pays… Makes Spotify Look Good! #sxsw

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Is this the future of music? We continue to look at more artist revenue streams. We’ve been waiting for someone to send us this kind of data. This info was provided anonymously by an indie label (we were provided screenshots but anonymized this info to a spreadsheet). Through the cooperative and collaborative efforts of artists […]

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