Music Biz Academy Digest - Issue #19 - September 17th, 2001
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WELCOME....
Welcome to the September 17th edition of the Music Biz Academy
digest.

As large as the subscription base for this newsletter is, it's
likely many of you who receive this have had your lives
irreversibly changed by the terrorist attacks that took place
this last week. Many of you have lost friends or family, or, at
the very least, know someone who has. I think it safe to say that
we have all been changed, and we will never forget the events of
September 11th, 2001.

Even in this time of darkness, however, there is a light that
shines brightly - our love for country, and our support for those
now taking on the overwhelming task of putting things right. I
was telling a friend of mine just yesterday that in my short 35
years of life, I don't remember ever seeing our country rally
behind one cause with such a unified voice. The patriotism
displayed has been awesome, and inspiring, and takes us back, at
least in some small way, to the root of what this country is all
about - one nation under God, standing together for freedom,
justice and liberty.

I would also like to express my condolences to those lost from
the U.K., Japan, India and others. The World Trade Center was not
just the U.S. trade center, but a global marketplace where those
supporting democracy supported freedom in the U.S. and the world
their day to day lives.

My heart goes out to you all, including those at the Pentagon,
and those brave souls on United Airlines Flight 93. Let freedom
ring!


IN THE MUSIC WORLD...
In terms of the music business, most of the news circulating over
the last two weeks involved how the record companies are
attempting to combat piracy. You may recall that last issue we
reported that the big five record companies were already
releasing encrypted CDs into the marketplace to prevent CD
ripping. Well, already lawsuits are brewing, as an unnamed
Californian woman has sued country music record label Fahrenheit
Entertainment for allegedly misleading its customers by shipping
CDs protected with an anti-rip mechanism built in. This writer
predicts that anti-rip CDs are going to become an accepted part
of life, as file sharing of non-protected music is going to be
near impossible to stop without completely shutting down the
Internet. The record labels, if they want to prevent copying, are
going to have to focus on encrypting the source CD, rather than
on depending on copyright laws and protections already in place.


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TIPS FOR WORKING WITH THE PRESS
http://www.musicbizacademy.com/knab/articles/workingpress.htm
Music journalists are a strange breed. They are, for the most
part, a fickle group of individuals with their own inconsistent
musical tastes, egos, and attitudes. Here are some important
facts for you to know about the people who may write a review of
your new record.


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HUNTER GRAPHICS
http://hunter-graphics.50megs.com/
Chris Hunter is a master of several artistic forms, including
illustration and desktop publishing. But the reason we've
selected him for our directory is his fantastic poster art for
musicians. If you're in need of posters, don't miss Chris'
portfolio.


C&C STUDIOS
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C&C offers affordable EnhancedCD/CD Extra production packages for
independent artists, and they are perfect for presentation to A&R
personnel. EnhancedCD / CD Extra disc will play music tracks
derived from your DAT master (or other high quality audio source)
in an audio CD player and when inserted in a computer CD-ROM
drive the multimedia data is immediately accessible, including
band member bios and interview video clips, interactive printable
lyric text and even performance video clips! Other services
include multimedia authoring, video digitizing & compression,
video archiving to CD-ROM, VideoCD, DVD and Lightwave 3D
modeling/animation for output to video or multimedia.


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THE DIRTY LITTLE SECRET ABOUT KAZAA AND IMESH
http://www.bob-baker.com/buzz/scumware.html
The first time I experienced it, I thought, "Some bastard has
hacked into my web server and changed my code!" I clicked on View
Source and saw that the HTML code hadn't been changed at all. So
what happened? Well, it all has to do with greed and people
ignoring principles of common decency. Let me explain ...


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TERRORIST ACTS BRING CITIES, MUSIC BIZ TO A STANDSTILL
http://www.billboard.com/billboard/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1054\
992
The U.S. music industry went into a state of near-total paralysis
yesterday (Sept. 11) following the deadly terrorist attacks on
the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in
Washington, D.C. The second annual Latin Grammy Awards, scheduled
for last night at the Forum in Los Angeles after relocation from
Miami, led a list of nationwide cancellations last night. Latin
Academy senior VP Enrique Fernandez says all events surrounding
the awards have been postponed; no new dates have been set.


US RECORD LABEL SUED OVER ANTI-RIP CD TECHNOLOGY
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/21610.html
An unnamed Californian woman has sued US country music record
label Fahrenheit Entertainment for allegedly misleading its
customers by shipping CDs protected with an anti-rip mechanism,
Web site Music Target has reported. The suit centres on the album
Charley Pride: A Tribute to Jim Reeves because it apparently
gives no indication that the copyright protection mechanism
prevents the disc being played back on a PC CD drive.


THE RIAA CAN STOP NAPSTER, BUT NOT THE WORLD
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?nid=14552
In the past few weeks, a host of Napster alternatives have been
monopolizing the scene. A recent survey of the Top Ten programs
being sucked down at CNet's Download.com showed that a full six
of the ruling wares are Napster alternatives. And, check this,
they're not just similar to Napster; they're better than Napster.
The revolution is over. Bootlegging is now a part of life. Thank,
quite literally, the world. The reason: Many of these newfangled
peer-to-peer file trading programs are coming from outside the
U.S., putting them and their programmers outside the jurisdiction
of the Recording Industry Association of America.


NAPSTER ECLIPSED BY NEWCOMERS
http://www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,46596,00.html
Months after shutting down its file-trading service, Napster has
finally been displaced by four new applications that allow users
to trade music, movies and software, a new study concludes.
Four new file-sharing systems -- FastTrack, Audiogalaxy, iMesh
and Gnutella -- were used to download 3.05 billion files during
August, according to research firm Webnoize.
That's more copyrighted material than was ever shared using
Napster and bad news for the major record labels hoping to stop
the trading of digital music.


MUSIC STARS COMPLAIN OF STRINGENT CONTRACTS
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/06/business/06MUSI.html?ex=1000526400&en=1ea7bece\
3fa29d96&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVER
LeAnn Rimes, the 19-year-old country music star, has been under
contract to Curb Records since she was 12. Today, she startled
the 150 people at a state Senate hearing here when she said that
she might be 35 years old before she finished delivering the 21
albums that she owes the record company.
Ms. Rimes and other singers, including Don Henley and Courtney
Love, sparred with music industry executives at the hearing,
called by the Select Committee on the Entertainment Industry. The
panel is examining part of the California labor code that gives
music companies the right to keep artists under contract or sue
them if they do not deliver a specified number of recordings.


NAPSTER IS DEAD. LONG LIVE MORPHEUS
http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/GAMArticleHTMLTemplate?tf=globetechnology\
/TGAM/NewsFullStory.html&cf=globetechnology/tech-config-neutral&slug=RVMORP&date\
=20010903
Morpheus, available through the MusicCity Networks Inc. Web site,
has become the most popular file-sharing network of its kind. It
now boasts more than 550,000 simultaneous users -- a 15-fold
increase over the number of people it had on-line in May. That's
similar to what Napster had about a year ago, and it grows by the
day.


STEALTH WAR AGAINST CD PIRACY
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/new_media/newsid_1524000/1524662.\
stm
More than one million CDs with anti-piracy devices have been
slipped onto racks in record shops across Europe.
The discs form part of an experiment by major labels to find out
how well their digital security systems work when trying to stop
tracks being copied onto blank CDs or swapped as computer files.
The five major labels have refused to reveal which artists' CDs
are involved.


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HOW TO PROMOTE YOUR MUSIC SUCCESSFULLY ON THE INTERNET
Spring 2001 Edition!
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If you want to sell your music on the net in any form, this book
will teach you how to design and market a web site that will SELL
YOUR MUSIC and bring in that extra income you need to boost and
financially support your music career! The author is currently
making over $4000 a month selling music related products and
advertising on the internet. 'How to Promote Your Music
Successfully on the Internet' shows you exactly how he did it,
step by step! Download Version Available for only $14.95!


THE GUERRILLA MUSIC MARKETING HANDBOOK
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This guide to independent music success features over 175 ways to
thrive and prosper with your own band or record label. Download
Version Available! The PDF version of this great book is now only
$29.95!


THE MUSICIAN'S ATLAS - 2001 Edition
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Created by The Music Resource Group, this 368-page volume
provides access to over 15,000 music businesses and key industry
contacts in more than 25 categories. Current names, phone and fax
numbers, e-mail and website addresses, detailed submission
policies and the styles of music preferred is just some of the
information you'll find on every page of The Atlas. Available in
hard copy for only $24.95!


THE INDIE CONTACT BIBLE
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Need to create some BUZZ about your music? Looking for reviewers?
Radio station contacts? Promotion services? Then grab The Indie
Contact Bible. This fantastic new musicians 'black book' contains
350 pages filled with contacts with publications and radio
programmers all over the world. These are people who actively
look for music to review! Download or Hard Copy Version Available
for $19.95!


MUSIC IS YOUR BUSINESS
http://www.musicbizacademy.com/bookstore/musiciyb.htm
Used as the official textbook for the Art Institute of Seattle's
Audio program, this invaluable book is filled with insights into
the music business and tactics for marketing your music. It
includes examples of industry marketing documents, a sample of an
artist bio and fact sheet, and checklists for starting your
career and running your own record label. Available in hard copy
for $24.95 until September 30th! Thereafter, MIYB sells for
$34.95. Buy it now and save!


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