The definition of insanity … the Music Industry, revisited

Posted by Martin Koser on 8. January 2008; This entry is filed under Business Models et al., English posts, Innovation et al., Media Industry, Strategic Thinking.
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Whoa, I had a Déjà-vu tonight, Marco has the full story: “Sony BMG’s DRM-free innovation“, anmut und demut nails it in a (german language) fable (“Es war einmal im dunklen sterbenden Wald der Musikindustrie ein untoter Riese …”), nerdcore has similar kind words for SonyBMG and I still can’t believe that this is freakin’ true, now in the year 2008.

Funny, I wanted to blog about Gerd Leonhards video of a panel discussion at LeWeb 3 on the future of the music business anyway. While there aren’t too many answers if you care for these, it’s interesting anyway, especially when Gerd says that nothing has changed that much and that his older book (“The End of Control“) is still valid. Well yes, for SonyBMG for sure …

Now, in the same theme there’s also hope – David Byrne offers sound (no pun intended) Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists — and Megastars in Wired (and his conversation with Thom Yorke is great). There might be hope for the real music industry after all …

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