This recent article on The Economist points out that legal music downloading options have finally created a scenario where legal downloading is a legitimate and viable alternative to stealing music through free downloads.

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Apple is collaborating with EMI, Sony Music, Warner Music and Universal Music Group with an eye towards creating an interactive bundle on their iTunes shore that includes material such as liner notes, lyric sheets and photos.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,1000000097,39697354,00.htm

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The future of Internet radio appears more secure after a handful of online stations reached an agreement Tuesday to head off a potentially crippling increase in copyright royalty rates.
As reported in Yahoo Tech, large commercial webcasters will pay copyright owners up to 25 percent of their revenue or a “per-performance” rate that is below the [...]

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Myspace is upgrading and readjusting their music angle.
A good amount has changed in the music industry since Myspace was sold to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation in 2005, and just from feel one can sense the drop in relevance of Myspace, whose website presence has become a top priority for bands in recent years.
Still, it seems [...]

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Interesting stuff, Glenn Peoples of Billboard goes over the first few days of numbers on iTunes after the price jumps on some tracks from $0.99 to 1.29.
The short of it is: “The changes in chart position between Tuesday and Thursday, however, clearly show that higher prices had forced many songs to cede chart position to [...]

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True for both music and web startups, don’t let the fear of things not working keep your from starting.
Trying and failing is a far more productive strategy than not trying something in case it doesn’t work. In fact, if you want to be successful – fail early and fail often.
- NewMusicStrategies

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I am still trying to figure out if I can glean a lesson from this news to pass to our readers.  Haven’t come up with anything, yet.  Nevertheless, any Spinal Tap news is special to us…

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There are reports of a Ticketmaster-Live Nation merger.  Billboard news does a nice job of summarizing the potential effects:
The two strategies of Live Nation and Ticketmaster Entertainment have been quite similar: vertical integration, direct connection between fans and artist, bundling of content and tickets, and harnessing of the secondary market and the revenues produced therein.
The [...]

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This action was probably to be expected at some point.  It also highlights how this industry is still really trying to figure things out.  Differing price points seems like a no-brainer.  DRM-free is great for the fans.  Some interesting excerpts from Information Week’s article are below:
“The DRM-free music will be in the iTunes Plus format, [...]

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