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The definition of insanity … the Music Industry, revisited

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, […]

Discussing the long tail …

with futurists Glen Hiemstra and Gerd Leonhard, get the mp3. In his book, The Long Tail, Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, states that “our culture and economy is increasingly shifting away from a focus on a relatively small number of “hits” (mainstream products and markets) at the head of the demand curve and toward […]

Jazz im Downloadzeitalter

Nun ja, just for the record, ein Interview in der SZ mit dem ACT-Labelchef Siegfried Loch über die Veränderungen und Chancen der Musikindustrie, gerade in Bezug auf das Nischenprogramm Jazz und zu neuen Geschäftsmodellen in der Musikindustrie: Welche Chance hat Jazz, im Download-Zeitalter zu überstehen, und wie steht es um das geistige Eigentum? Ein Interview […]

Why the music industry should pay very close attention to blogs, photo-sharing, ringtone-mixers, and social networking

Gerd Leonhard argues that the music industry should pay more attention to the Culture of Participation and that blogs, photo-sharing, ringtone-mixers, mash-ups and social networks may teach them a lot. Well, this may offer business model innovation opportunities as well … e.g. third-party recommendation and selection services and sheds a light on user-generated content as […]

Future of Music – Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution

David Kusek and Gerd Leonhard bring on this excerpt from their book “The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution” … read on at themusic.com.au