Music Biz Academy Digest - Issue #47 - October 29th, 2002
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Hello subscribers, welcome to the October 29th edition of the
Music Biz Academy Digest!

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT....
Last issue, I briefly mentioned that the U.S. Senate failed to
pass a mutated version of Bill HR 5469. The original draft of
that bill would have given small-company Webcasters making less
than $1 million a year a break on digital performance royalties
which were to have been due on October 20th. The mutated version
of the bill, which was reported to have expanded from one
paragraph to 28 pages, offered no such hope, apparently, for many
webcasters. To quote Jon Jeffrey of Live365.com, "Live365 and its
thousands of personal webcasters will not be impacted at all or
provided any relief from the .007 per performance royalty rate,
if HR 5469 passes in its current form."

The bill is now in limbo until the Senate returns after the
November elections. So, what's the future of webcasting?

Well, in an gesture of goodwill, SoundExchange, which is the body
set up by the RIAA to collect webcasting royalties, has said it
will delay the collection of fees until after the Senate returns.

Perhaps we CAN all just get along after all. Let's hope?

INTERNET RADIO LEGISLATION DELAYED
http://tinyurl.com/2avi

Another tidbit that caught my attention this week was news that
Listen.com's Rhapsody service has been making some advances in
the online music subscription market. Back in July I reported
that Listen.com's 'Rhapsody' digital music service was the FIRST
to license music from ALL FIVE of the major music labels. Last
issue I reported that MusicNet and PressPlay are both very close
to securing catalogs of music from all five of the major music
labels as well.

One advantage PressPlay had over it's competitors in the past was
a price and service structure giving users unlimited music
downloads from its library of over 150,000 tracks. The 'unlimited
plus' service PressPlay offers, which costs $17.95 per month,
includes a 10-pack of 'portable downloads', which essentially
means you are allowed to burn a CD of up to 10 songs a month.

Now Listen.com has joined the club. Listen.com's latest service
update, which includes music from all five major record labels,
gives you unlimited streaming (not downloads) and unlimited (sort
of) burns...for a price. Your basic subscription service, the
'All Access' streaming plan, will run you $9.95/month. After
that, you may burn as many songs as you want direct to CD for
$.99 per track on a pay-as-you-go basis. The only limitation? You
can only 'burn' music from two of the five major record labels.
One of those labels, however, is Universal Music, which is the
largest. Of the 250,000 total songs now in Rhapsody's database,
about 75,000 of them are available for burning. I suspect it's
only a matter of time before EMI, Sony and BMG join in.

It's really good to see these online music services becoming more
'music on demand' friendly. The industry finally seems to be
coming up with viable, legal alternatives to Napster that music
lovers can afford.

LISTEN.COM'S ONLINE MUSIC UNIT OFFERS CD BURNING
http://tinyurl.com/2awg

Speaking of the Universal Music Group, they plan to decide in
coming weeks which of it's web music properties are worth
keeping, and which they may want to dump. Universal is looking to
downsize, and intends to sell about $12 billion in assets to
reduce it's debt! Some of Universal's web properties include
MP3.com, GetMusic.com, and RollingStone.com.

Hmm. I wonder which will go?

UNIVERSAL TO REVIEW WEB ASSETS, INCLUDING MP3.COM
http://tinyurl.com/2awm

And, speaking of MP3.com, did you see that crazy new look, feel
and design? Yikes! One thing is for sure, the fact that they
released this new look around Halloween is appropriate. It's
so...dizzying. They've broken my #1 rule of web design - keep it
simple! There's so much stuff on the home page it has my
eyes doing somersaults! Where do I go? What do I do? Who am I?

Since the design switchover, MP3.com artists in the artist forums
have been reporting a few little problems, like songs
disappearing from the charts. MP3.com is still working these and
other kinks out.

One real shocker is that MP3.com has created two chart systems,
one for 'downloadable' music, and one for 'streaming' music. So
now, as an MP3.com artist, you've got to choose your chart
preference and decide which promotional approach you are going to
take. This single aspect of the new MP3.com seems to be causing a
good deal of confusion in the artist forums.

As you all know, however, I'm a big fan of MP3.com. MP3.com has
been very good to me. As as big fan, I must say I am very curious
to see how all this effects independent artists who actively
promote their music through the MP3.com Promo Auctions. So long
as MP3.com provides an avenue for self-promotion, I'll stay in
their corner.

One thing SOPHIE (MP3.com's forum spokesperson) said does make me
worry a bit, however...

"We will, however, be redesigning and relaunching the Artist
Services and Admin early next year. All the details for this
launch are expected to be confirmed in late November. At that
time, we will communicate the changes to you preceding an early
2003 launch."

Relaunching Artist Services? There's much more implied here than
just a look and feel change. In fact, in posting to the Artist
Boards, SOPHIE has confirmed that changes are definitely planned
for the Premium Artist Service. I wonder what surprises MP3.com
has in store for us?

Trick or treat, I'm on the edge of my seat.

Until next time,

David Nevue
Editor, The Music Biz Academy
http://www.musicbizacademy.com
http://www.promoteyourmusic.com
http://www.mp3.com/davidnevue


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PLANNING YOUR MUSIC CAREER: ONE STEP AT A TIME
http://www.musicbizacademy.com/internet/careerplan.htm
How to you begin planning for a serious career in the music
business? What are the steps you need to take to 'make it?'
Article by David Nevue.


CAN A ONE-MAN RECORD LABEL BE SUCCESSFUL?
http://www.musicbizacademy.com/articles/onemanlabel.htm
I know that many of you are one-man record labels. You do it all:
write your music, produce your music, engineer your music,
promote your albums, and get your own gigs. Whether this is by
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ASA offers complete audio and video productions services as well
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THE BANDIT A&R NEWSLETTER
http://www.banditnewsletter.com/
Bandit is a monthly publication (in business for almost 15 years)
designed to help musicians target their demos and press kits to
music businesses (labels, publishers, managers and producers)
actively searching for new talent. Every month, the newsletters
feature 24 companies, both in the UK and in the US. The
newsletter is $30 (US) per year, and based on the testimonials, a
good investment. A sample copy of the newsletter is available on
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GRIFFITH PUBLIC RELATIONS AND MARKETING
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If you're looking for a PR specialist to help you create a media
buzz about your act, consider the services of Griffith PR and
Marketing. Services include (but are not limited to) marketing
campaign planning and execution, production materials for media
kits, press releases, publicity programs, radio promotion,
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and more. A quote from the site, 'We go above and beyond what
other publicity firms will do for you. Let us help you gain the
music industry recognition and consumer awareness you deserve by
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MOSES AVALON
http://www.mosesavalon.com
Want to avoid music business rip-offs? One way to start is to
visit 'Moses Avalon - Confessions of a Record Producer.' Mr.
Avalon has produced and engineered records for several major and
independent record labels. His work with Grammy award winning
recording artists has earned him five RIAA Platinum record
awards. His site offers an inside look at the business from
someone who's been there. You'll find Scam of the Month and
Industry News, An eye-opening Royalties Calculator, The Good
Guys, a list of great producers, studios and lawyers, and of
course Ask Moses, where for $10 bucks you can ask that burning
question you have about the music business. Moses also provides
in-depth consultation for unsigned artists. Moses' first book,
Confessions of a Record Producer: How To Survive the Scams and
Shams of the Music Business in September in 1998 is currently the
top selling non-fiction book on the music industry. Moses
Supposes, his newsletter, features informed editorials on the
inner workings of the music business.


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MusicDistribution.com aims to help you find the best places to
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Includes our top 10 list, music promotion tips, and
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Our friends at Tonos have blown the door of opportunity open for
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RIAA CHIEF ROSEN LOSES OXFORD DEBATE ON P2P
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/27796.html
http://tirian.magd.ox.ac.uk/~nick/UnionDebate/
RIAA chairmam* and CEO Hilary Rosen suffered a heavy defeat at
the Oxford Union last week, when the motion she was proposing,
"This House believes that the free music mentality is a threat to
the future of music," was rejected by 256 votes to 72. The Oxford
Union is the debating club that produces top politicians, and
where once upon a time toffs voted against fighting for King and
Country.


BAND CAN'T SELL OWN MUSIC ON EBAY
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,55926,00.html
George Ziemann didn't have delusions of grandeur when it came to
selling his band's CD. He just wanted to promote the album -- and
hopefully sell a few copies -- on a higher-traffic site than his
own. So he turned to eBay, the Net's largest marketplace. The
reason? He used recordable CDs (CD-Rs) to distribute his albums.


HILARY ROSEN RESPONDS TO JANIS IAN
http://www.riaa.com/PR_story.cfm?id=579
Janis Ian’s USA TODAY column (Oct 23rd, “Music industry spins
falsehood”) so blatantly mischaracterizes both the RIAA position
as well as that of most record company executives that I know on
several different issues that a response is merited. All of the
enforcement efforts that the RIAA has engaged in over the years
have been focused on two goals: to foster the development of a
new, legitimate on-line music business to serve fans and to give
artists and copyright owners a choice about how their music is
distributed. If Janis wants to give her music away because, in
her view, it furthers her career goals, more power to her. But
artists deserve the choice. And under the current scenario of
so-called “file sharing” P-2-P networks, they don’t have that
choice. The music is just taken freely.


'MUSIC INDUSTRY DOES NOT INNOVATE'
http://mi2n.com/press.php3?press_nb=43367
At next week's MusicWorks conference it will be stated that the
problems the music industry are facing are self-imposed.
Sholto Ramsay and Futurologist with the Union Advertising Agency
today stated: 'We all know the big music companies are suffering,
but their diagnosis that it is simply their customers downloading
MP3s that is to blame is incorrect. They are in their present
situation because they stopped innovating twenty years ago. They
have relied on the same tired business model since the 1960s,
living off a set of mythologies and narratives well past their
sell-by date.


WHAT WILL THOSE CRAZY RECORD LABELS DO NEXT?
http://tinyurl.com/2az1
Despite the neutering of Napster, online piracy of music
continues unabated. And we all know who the culprit is: rock
critics. At least that's the assumption behind a series of moves
that makes it more difficult for reviewers to hear new music in
advance without jumping through increasingly unwieldy hoops. The
latest tactic: Epic Records has taken to sending selected members
of the press advance CDs of Tori Amos and Pearl Jam glued into
Walkmen. That's right: Even as we speak, record company interns
are getting Superglue all over their collegiate hands making sure
personal CD players stay shut.


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LISTEN.COM LICENSES UNIVERSAL, WARNER CD BURNS
http://digitalmass.boston.com/news/2002/10/24/listen_com.html
Online music company Listen.com will announce on Thursday that it
has signed licensing deals with Warner Music Group and Universal
Music Group, enabling fans to burn songs from both companies'
catalogs on Listen's Rhapsody music subscription service.
As of Monday, more than 75,000 tracks will be available for
burning for 99 cents per track, including songs by artists like
Bon Jovi, Nelly and Eminem.


P2P HACKING BILL MAY BE AMENDED
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-963087.html?tag=cd_mh
A proposal to let copyright owners hack into and disrupt
peer-to-peer networks will be revised, a congressional aide said
Wednesday. Alec French, an aide to bill author Rep. Howard
Berman, D-Calif., defended his boss' ideas but acknowledged that
some critics had made reasonable points about the controversial
proposal. "He plans to significantly redraft the bill to
accommodate reasonable concerns before reintroduction in the
108th (Congress)," French said during an afternoon event at the
conservative Heritage Foundation.


LISTEN.COM TO OFFER LEGAL CD-BURNING
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2124388,00.html
As it readies a new version of its online music subscription
service, Listen.com plans to announce on Thursday agreements to
allow consumers to burn CDs from digital files. It won't be the
digital free-for-all seen in the popular file-swapping arenas,
however. The company will charge consumers 99 cents (about 64
pence) per song, which means a full album of songs will cost only
a few dollars less than the retail price. However, the deals are
a sign that the major music labels are increasingly loosening
their licensing policies for digital music.


JUDGE APPROVES NAPSTER LOAN
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2124273,00.html
As the collapsed song-swapping network's bankruptcy proceedings
continue, some of its assets have been sold to Napco Acquisition
A Delaware bankruptcy judge has approved a $200,000 loan to
Napster, the failed online song-swapping service, from a company
called Napco Acquisition to keep the company afloat until the
sale of its assets is completed, according to court filings.
Napco also signed a letter of intent to buy some of Napster's
assets, the court papers said. Napco attorney Suzzanne Uhland at
O'Melveny & Myers could not be immediately reached for comment.


SENATE FAILS TO PASS WEBCASTER BILL
http://tinyurl.com/2az3
The U.S. Senate failed to pass a bill supported by record
companies and artists groups that would have given small-company
Webcasters making less than $1 million a year a break on digital
performance royalties that are due on Sunday. As such, the bill
is in limbo until the Senate returns after the November elections
for possible reconsideration, and small Webcasters will have to
pay higher fees retroactive to 1998 based on the rate set in June
by the Librarian of Congress.


UNIVERSAL TO REVIEW WEB ASSETS, INCLUDING MP3.COM
http://tinyurl.com/2awl
Universal Music, the music arm of Vivendi Universal and the
world's largest record company, will decide in coming weeks which
of its Web music properties are worth keeping as the French media
giant seeks to downsize, sources said Thursday. Vivendi's
chairman and chief executive officer Jean-Rene Fourtou's has
issued a mandate to sell about $12 billion in company assets to
reduce debt. An arm of Vivendi's struggling Internet division
known as VUNet, has focused on building businesses around online
distribution of music and video, with sites like MP3.com,
Getmusic.com and Rollingstone.com.


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HOW TO PROMOTE YOUR MUSIC SUCCESSFULLY ON THE INTERNET
Summer 2002 Edition!
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Learn the marketing and promotion methods that one musician uses
to bring in over $5000 a month in income from the Internet! There
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THE MUSICIAN'S ATLAS - 2002 Edition
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Created by The Music Resource Group, this 368-page volume
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contacts in more than 25 categories. Current names, phone and fax
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THE INDIE BIBLE - The Fourth Edition!
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MUSIC IS YOUR BUSINESS
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This great offering from music biz consultant Christopher Knab is
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and how you can get the 'edge'. Learn how to attract
distributors, radio play, and how to create a demand for your
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Sample artist bio, fact sheet, and checklists for jump-starting
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THE GUERRILLA MUSIC MARKETING HANDBOOK
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We've partnered with CDStreet to offer one of the best deals on
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Music123 has a huge selection and they guarantee you the lowest
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