modern music marketing

Hillary Rosen wants to help you!

So I'm checking out the new celebrity blog, The Huffington Post, and see an article written by the music business' own version of Katherine Harris, Hillary Rosen. And she's writing about her problems with the iPod!

Here's an excerpt:

I know Steve Jobs is a god. Look, I bowed at his feet when the iPod and iTunes was created because HE GOT THE BALL ROLLING. He is as laconically casually cool as Bono and makes really good cartoon movies too. But keeping the iTunes system a proprietary technology to prevent anyone from using multiple (read Microsoft) music systems is the most anti-consumer and user unfriendly thing any god can do. Is this the same Jobs that railed for years about the Microsoft monopoly? Is taking a page out of their playbook the only way to have a successful business? If he isn’t careful Bill Gates might just Betamax him while the crowds cheer him on. Come on Steve – open it up.

Complete Post on The Huffington Post Website   

Podcast Trouble

At Chicago's WCKG-FM 105.9 radio station, a local radio pro has gotten into trouble for offering podcasts of his show...But this re-purposing of Steve Dahl's show has come to an abrupt halt because of copyright and royalty issues.
Lawyers for station-owner Infinity Broadcasting, a division of Viacom, have determined that the rights agreements covering live streaming of programs do not necessarily cover downloadable versions of those same shows.
The copyright implication of the radio podcasts are interesting: Dahl writes on his site: "The digital copyright laws are ever changing and ever expanding, and quite lucrative. I recommend that area of law to you youngsters out there thinking about going to law school. In the meantime, please forgive me for this little interruption in bringing you the future."
This retreat in Chicago comes as Infinity promotes a format change in San Francisco that will make KYCY-AM "the world's first podcasting radio station."