Music Biz Academy Digest - Issue #49 - November 29th, 2002
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Hello subscribers, welcome to the November 29th edition of the
Music Biz Academy Digest! I trust you had a wonderful
thanksgiving holiday! I certainly did, and I now look forward to
many days of leftovers!

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT....
The biggest news of recent days is the 'revitalization' of what
once was Napster, the Internet's one-time premier file-swapping
service. The court cleared the way for Roxio, a company that
makes CD and DVD burning software, to purchase what is left of
Napster for a mere $5 million dollars. The deal has given Roxio
all of Napster's intellectual property rights, including the
right to use it's trademark, name and technology. Best of all for
Roxio, they don't inherit any Napster's legal and financial
obligations resulting from lawsuits.

NAPSTER'S ASSETS GO FOR A SONG
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,56633,00.html

The newswires have also been a-buzz with stories on file-swapping
service Kazaa. The The Recording Industry Association of America
(RIAA) has been wanting to sue Kazaa for it's part in encouraging
the file-swapping and downloading of copyrighted works online.
The trouble is, Kazaa isn't located on U.S. soil. It's parent
company is headquartered in Australia, and the business is
incorporated in the Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu. Recent
comments made by the court judge have led some to speculate the
court is leaning toward judging in favor of the RIAA, which would
allow them to sue. That would extend the court's jurisdiction
*beyond* U.S. borders and over foreign-based companies. What's
ironic about this is that a U.S. court just ruled that foreign
powers are not allowed to sue U.S. companies in a French case
against search directory Yahoo!

WILL JUDGE RULE IN FAVOR OF RIAA
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=13899

KAZAA LIKELY TO FACE US LAWSUIT
http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article.php/1548811

In an effort to stop file-trading at it's source, many Internet
service providers in the U.S. and Canada are considering putting
bandwidth limits on subscriber services. If people know they have
only a limited amount of bandwidth available, the thought goes,
they may be less likely to download as many files or to allow
people to upload songs and music from their computers.

INDUSTRY MOVES TO BLOCKADE PIRATES
http://tinyurl.com/33ls

In the meantime, record companies are beginning to benefit from
file download technology. Universal Music has announced that it
will make more than 43,000 songs available for download at retail
outlets such as Best Buy, Circuit City, Tower Records, and
MP3.com. These songs will be available for purchase for .99
cents per track or $9.99 for an entire album. This comes on the
heels of our report last month that PressPlay, a joint venture of
Sony and Universal Music, would become the first online music
subscription service to allow consumers to buy and burn songs
from all five major recording labels. Record companies are
*finally* catching up to customer demands.

UNIVERSAL MUSIC KICKS OFF DIGITAL DOWNLOAD PLAN
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/4559936.htm

MUSIC GIANTS ARE GOING FOR THE BURN
http://www.msnbc.com/news/835019.asp

Finally, is the future of satellite radio in doubt? XM Radio,
considered by many to the the 'HBO' of radio, laid off 80
employees last week. The service has been losing money since it's
inception and XM is hoping the cash-saving layoffs, along with
other cost-cutting measures, will help attract new investors.

XM RADIO CUTS 80 JOBS TO SAVE MONEY
http://tinyurl.com/2tsn

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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DECLINING ONLINE MUSIC $ALES
http://www.musicbizacademy.com/comment/decliningsales.htm
We keep hearing about how sales are declining on the Internet.
How does this translate to you, the independent artist? Does it
matter? Promoter Kenny Love suggests how to compensate for
declining sales.


Q&A: "WE SIMPLY CAN'T SURVIVE AS AN INDIE BAND"
http://www.musicbizacademy.com/comment/kloveqa2.htm
"We can't survive independently - it would turn into a hobby if
we continue this path. As much as we would love to remain indi,
it's simply unrealistic. Certain styles of music can definitely
be promoted successfully independently - but not Adult
Alternative (pop/prog/jazz). We need the exposure of a wider
audience & opportunities a label can provide." Answer by Kenny
Love.


PUBLISHING DEALS MADE EASY: A THUMBNAIL SKETCH
http://www.musicbizacademy.com/articles/publishingdeals.htm
People often speak of “publishing deals” in a generic way, which
implies that there is only one kind of publishing deal. In fact,
there are a number of different kinds of publishing deals, as
described in this fantastic article by attorney Bart Day.


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PLANNING YOUR MUSIC CAREER
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MUSIC BIZ INTERNSHIPS: DO'S AND DON'TS
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PROMO KIT PHOTOS
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COMPACT DISC REPAIRMAN, INC.
http://www.cdrepairman.com/
Is your CD master suddenly skipping a beat? Desperate to repair a
CD that is simply irreplaceable? Contact the folks at CD
Repairman for help. Don't miss their quiz, 'How much do you know
about compact discs?' The answers might surprise you.


GRAND MASTERS OF FLASH
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Want to integrate Flash into your web site? Check out Joe
Sweeney's 'Grand Masters of Flash' service. Some very cool
designs here, a huge client list, and plenty of sample projects
to check out.


MPA'S DIRECTORY OF MUSIC PUBLISHERS
http://www.mpa.org/agency/pal.html
Looking for a publisher's contact information? The Music
Publishers' Association's directory contains contact information
for publishers, both domestic and foreign, and copyright
administrating offices. A very complete listing and an an
excellent resource.


PACIFIC TECH IMAGING
http://www.cosmicwave.com/index.html
If you're playing around with a layout idea for your new CD
release, you may wish you had the ability to design the layout on
your computer AND print it out on a pre-formatted, ready to
insert paper. PTI provides you with exactly that; perferated,
professional quality paper for the printing of your CD folders
and booklets as well as cassette J-Cards and ZIP case inserts.
PTI also offers companion software for their templates that
prints and saves liners for your CDs and cassettes. Templates for
the inserts are available for immediate download after purchase.

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MUSICDISTRIBUTION.COM
http://www.musicdistribution.com/
MusicDistribution.com aims to help you find the best places to
promote, sell, and distribute your music on the Internet.
Includes our top 10 list, music promotion tips, and
recommended resources.


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JEWEL ANNOUNCES SOUL CITY CAFE, MUSIC QUEST 2003
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Want to open for Jewel? Enter Soul City Cafe Music Quest by
submitting your 3-song demo and you could win an opening slot on
Jewel's 2003 tour and other prizes that will give you the
exposure you deserve! Enter as either a band or solo artist (see
definitions in rules). Could there be a better way to launch your
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GET YOUR MUSIC HEARD!
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Our friends at Tonos have blown the door of opportunity open for
more than a few musicians and songwriters. Founded by legendary
music makers Carole Bayer Sager, David Foster and Kenneth
"Babyface" Edmonds (all three Grammy winners), Tonos gives many
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folks that matter. On a regular basis, record labels,
film/television music supervisors, producers, managers, and other
music industry entities contact Tonos when they're looking for
specific musical talents. For example, Steve Lillywhite, producer
of albums by U2, Dave Matthews and the Rolling Stones, used Tonos
to find the first artist he signed for his new record label. And
he's not alone. On a constant basis, there are new opportunites
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RIAA PUNISHING NAVY CADETS 'BECAUSE IT CAN'
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28293.html
The RIAA may be shocked by our satirical treatment of the US Navy
Academy's confiscation of PCs containing MP3s, but Register
readers are just as shocked that the RIAA has gone for a soft
target. Many military staff past and present have written to us.
The difference between the Navy academy and other colleges is
clear: the academy is obliged to investigate and punish
miscreants. So an MP3 could end a career...


MUSIC LABELS: STREAMING IS SWELL
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,56419,00.html
If the recording industry has its way, the day of the music
download may soon be dead. Or at least on life support.
Record companies continue to use their financial muscle to slow
the growth of file-trading networks and to acquire digital-rights
management technologies that limit what people can do with MP3s
and other files. To meet the growing demand for digital music,
labels have turned to streaming services because they offer the
one thing entertainment conglomerates want most: control.

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NAPSTER'S ASSETS GO FOR A SONG
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,56633,00.html
Napster will rise again -- sort of -- thanks to a software
company that makes CD-and DVD-burning software. The company,
Roxio, purchased the company's intellectual property for $5
million on Wednesday, rescuing it from bankruptcy court, where it
had languished since June. Roxio's plan is to create a
subscription music service that can be combined with its
software. "Roxio has received ... all of Napster's intellectual
property including but not limited to the name, trademarks,
domain name and their extensive technology portfolio," the
company said in a release.


KAZAA LIKELY TO FACE US LAWSUIT
http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article.php/1548811
A US federal judge has hinted that he is likely to allow US
record companies and movie studios to sue the Australia-based
parent company of Kazaa, a popular online file-swapping service.
Because Kazaa's parent company maintains headquarters in
Australia and incorporation in the island of Vanuatu, lawyers
argued it should not be subject to a lawsuit in the U.S. but, if
Judge Wilson's statements in court provide any hints, he is
leaning towards the Recording Industry Association of America
(RIAA).


RIAA PROMPTS SEIZURE OF U.S. NAVY COMPUTERS
http://www.officialspin.com/
Officials at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland have
seized nearly 100 midshipmen's computers that allegedly contained
illegally downloaded music and movies. Sources close to the
investigation, said the raid occurred Thursday while students
were in class. Amanda Collins, aspokesman for the Recording
Industry Association of America (RIAA), said that the Naval
Academy was among the colleges and universities around the
country that were sent two letters from entertainment industry
and educational associations asking them to address Internet
piracy and establish policies against it.


MP3.COM ADDS IT'S 250,000TH ARTIST
http://mi2n.com/press.php3?press_nb=44773
To further celebrate its fifth anniversary as an online music
pioneer, MP3.com today announced the addition of its 250,000th
musical artist -- making it by far the largest musician community
on the Internet.


AIMSTER FACES CONTEMPT CHARGES
http://www.curlio.com/new_showarticle.php?id=2954
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), on behalf
of its member companies, and the music publishers, filed a motion
late Wednesday afternoon for a hearing to find Aimster (a.k.a.
Madster) in contempt on the grounds that it has willfully
disregarded an order issued on November 4, 2002. In that order,
the court directed Aimster to immediately prevent its users from
uploading and downloading copyrighted works or shut down its
operations until it can do so.


LIQUID AUDIO CEO QUITS AFTER MERGER FAILS
http://tinyurl.com/33m8
Liquid Audio Inc. Chief Executive Officer and co-founder Gerald
Kearby has resigned, less than two weeks after dissatisfied
shareholders blocked a merger with Alliance Entertainment Corp.
The Redwood City firm also said Friday that co-founder Robert
Flynn resigned as senior vice president of business development.


AMAZON.COM TO TAKE OVER 'BACK OFFICE' OF CDNOW
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t278-s2126523,00.html
Internet retailer Amazon.com is set to take over the running of
German media group Bertelsmann's online music store CDnow, the
Financial Times has reported. Amazon will run the back-office
activities of CDnow in return for a share of profits while
Bertelsmann will retain ownership of the brand and its site, the
newspaper said on Tuesday.


U.S. LIABILITY LOOMS OVER KAZAA
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-971086.html
A Los Angeles federal judge heard arguments Monday as to whether
record companies and movie studios can sue the parent company of
Kazaa, the most popular online file-swapping service, in the
United States. Much of Kazaa's future, from a business and legal
perspective, hangs on the judge's decision. The parent company,
Sharman Networks, is headquartered in Australia and incorporated
in the Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu, and has tried to keep
business contact with the United States to a minimum in order to
decrease its legal risk.


INTERNET RADIO LISTENING UP 172 PERCENT SINCE JANUARY
http://mi2n.com/press.php3?press_nb=44671
Arbitron Inc. announced today that the index of total time spent
listening to a spectrum of online radio stations measured by
Arbitron's MeasureCast Ratings grew 172 percent since January.


BMG PLANS TO SIMPLIFY ROYALTY DEDUCTIONS
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/21/business/media/21MUSI.html
BMG announced an overhaul of its accounting practices for
royalties yesterday, a move that it said would assuage concerns
that performers are being shortchanged on their earnings.
But while some artists and their representatives applauded BMG
for its lone stand among the music labels, they said the industry
still needed to change other accounting methods and better
compensate performers for their work. BMG said that beginning
next year it would eliminate contract deductions it typically
takes off the retail price of a CD for items like packaging, new
technology and free goods for retailers. Instead, BMG will
calculate the royalty rate on the lower wholesale price.
The new method will not change the amount of the royalties.


UNIVERSAL MUSIC KICKS OFF DIGITAL DOWNLOAD PLAN
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/4559936.htm
Universal Music Group, the world's largest music company,
Wednesday announced it would make more than 43,000 song tracks
available for download at retail outlets and music Web sites,
opening a new front in the marketing of digital music. The
initiative is aimed at attracting fans who may want to buy songs
or albums on a one-off basis online rather than through monthly
Internet subscriptions. Universal said the digital tracks will be
available for purchase by consumers in the U.S. for 99 cents for
individual tracks and $9.99 for albums. The downloads will be
available through over 25 retailers and music sites, including
Best Buy Co. Inc., Circuit City Stores Inc., MP3.com, Rolling
Stone, Tower Records and others.


SMALL WEBCASTER ROYALTY RELIEF BILL PASSES IN SENATE, HOUSE
http://bandradio.com/news/?id=1928
The Small Webcaster Settlement Act (SWSA), a revised bill that
would give small and noncommercial webcasters a break on the
royalties they have to pay artists and record labels to stream
music online, passed in the Senate and House late Thursday, and
now awaits President Bush's approval to become law. The language
of the bill does not actually set lower rates, but provides that
small webcasters and SoundExchange, the recording industry entity
that collects such royalties, may negotiate their own agreements
independent of the Librarian of Congress' determination of rates.
It also places a six-month stay on payment of any royalties by
small webcasters while an agreement can be negotiated.


XM RADIO CUTS 80 JOBS TO SAVE MONEY
http://tinyurl.com/2tsn
Washington's XM Satellite Radio Inc. laid off 80 employees this
week, the company announced yesterday, as the critically
acclaimed but money-losing subscription-radio service attempts to
conserve its cash. The layoffs are designed to satisfy current
investors and lure new ones, said a source familiar with the
cuts. XM has been hailed by music and electronics critics as a
sort of HBO for radio that provides music not heard on AM or FM.
As a business, however, the company still has a long way to go
toward profitability, and it is struggling with enormous start-up
costs.


NEW LIGHT SHED ON UNBREAKABLE ENCRYPTION
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-965957.html
Scientists at Northwestern University say they have harnessed the
properties of light to encrypt information into code that can be
cracked only one way: by breaking the physical laws of nature.
This high-speed quantum cryptography method allowed the
scientists to send encrypted data over a fiber-optic line at
250mbps (megabits per second), which the researchers said was
more than 1,000 times faster than what was achievable with
existing quantum technology. "What makes the system so secure is
that an eavesdropper can't tap into it without disturbing the
photons," said Paul Kwiat, a professor of physics at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a leading
authority on quantum cryptography. "If an eavesdropper disturbs
the photons, then they're gone."


MUSIC GIANTS ARE GOING FOR THE BURN
http://www.msnbc.com/news/835019.asp
A flurry of Internet music licensing deals this week gave a big
boost to the legal side of online music, with two major record
labels for the first time allowing consumers to permanently keep
music they pay to download. Warner Music Group announced separate
deals Thursday with MusicNet and Pressplay that would allow
consumers to buy, download and transfer songs from artists such
as Linkin Park and Matchbox 20 to compact discs and portable
devices like MP3 players. With the Warner agreement, Pressplay, a
joint venture of Sony and Universal Music, becomes the first
service to allow consumers to buy and “burn” songs from all five
major recording labels.


NAPSTER POISED FOR ANOTHER COMEBACK
http://media.guardian.co.uk/dotcoms/story/0,7521,840815,00.html
Napster, the controversial online song-swapping service, is set
to rise from the grave yet again after US software company Roxio
revealed it was close to winning an auction for the bankrupt
company's assets. Roxio will pay $5.3m (£3.6m) for Napster's
brand name, technology and logo and will be free of all the
bankrupt company's liabilities, including unresolved copyright
claims, when it emerges from Chapter 11 protection early next
year. Roxio refused to comment on its plans for Napster but it is
expected to relaunch as a service that allows users to purchase
tracks and download them to CD, automatically sending payment to
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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
are no 'pipe dreams' sold here. The author details step-by-step
how he finally said good-bye to his day job and starting spending
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THE INDIE BIBLE - The Fourth Edition!
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Need to create some BUZZ about your music? Looking for reviewers?
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over the world. These are people who actively look for music to
review! Download or Hard Copy Version Available for $24.95!


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
your career and/or running your own record label! PDF Edition
only $19.95!


THE GUERRILLA MUSIC MARKETING HANDBOOK
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The Music Biz Academy has partnered with NOMA music, a very
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1) Placing bands, songwriters, instrumentalists, and solo artists
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2) Placing and licensing songs and music into television, film,
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NOMA works with a large network of over 400 production companies.
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We've partnered with CDStreet to offer one of the best deals on
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MUSIC CAREER CONSULTING
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If you'd like some help getting your music career off the ground
or preparing for that next step, contact our expert music
consultant, Christopher Knab. Chris has been called "One of the
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Seattle's Rocket Magazine. He is owner of FourFront Media and
Music, a consultation service based in Seattle that helps
musicians develop marketing and career plans.


RADIO & RETAIL PROMOTION
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If you're looking to promote your music either via radio or
through retail, we've teamed up with a radio promoter who has
quarterbacked campaigns for RadioHead (before they were stars),
Lit (Malicious Vinyl), and others. Our contact will help arrange
on-air interviews, CD reviews, and create a custom campaign
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ART DESIGN - CDs, Posters, One-Sheets, and Web Sites
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In this business of music, image means everything! You know it,
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MUSIC123: KEYBOARDS, GUITARS, INSTRUMENTS & ACCESSORIES
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Biz Academy (http://www.musicbizacademy.com) . It is a resource
designed for musicians promoting or selling music on the
internet. Each week we feature news, articles, and reviews
related to the art of online music promotion and music related
product sales.

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