Lecture on the music industry with an emphasis on Internet music services. Overview of the state of the big 4 global music companies, UMG, SMG, WMG, EMI.
7. WMG Vs Seeqpod Lawsuit Key Points
....WMG Differs
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Songza (http://www.songza.com)
SkreemR (http://skreemr.com)
• MP3 search engine • Track metadata keyword search
by artist, title, album.
• Media crawler
• Audio ‘quality’ ranking • Content from Youtube (music
vids), Imeem (track plays) and
• Search by track metadata (artist /
others
title)
• Doesn't host any content, • Links to Amazon MP3 to buy
tracks
just provides searches.
• Uses embedded player/widgets • "Songza pays for licenses from all the
major performing-rights organizations
• Saved Playlists (ASCAP, BMI, SESAC), who then pay
• “SkreemR respects the intellectual the publishers and writers in
property of others, and we ask our users proportion to the number of plays
to do the same. If you believe in good they get on Songza."
faith that materials we link to infringe
your copyright, you (or your agent) can
contact us requesting that we remove the
links to the material. “
15. • EchoNest
• Myna
Algorithmic • Fraunhaufer
Metadata • Gracenote
Collaborative
Filtering and • Music Intelligence
Recommendatio • Magix Mufin Music Finder
n Systems • The Filter
• Platinum Blue
• Itunes Genius
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Visual Search, Browse,
Discovery
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16. http://discovr.info/ http://www.mpme.com
Radio ONELLAMA
• Live internet radio
stations often with
real DJs (i.e. not
personalised internet
radio but a way of
finding internet radio
shows playing now
that suit your tastes)
• Legal?
17. www.musicplasma.com
http://company.onellama.com/section/labs/
Creative Commons
http://company.onellama.com/flash/discover.swf
• Creative Commons licenses allow artists to share their works freely
for certain uses, on certain conditions; or dedicate their works to the
public domain.
• “Our tools give everyone from individual creators to large companies and
institutions a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their
creative work.The Creative Commons licenses enable people to easily change
their copyright terms from the default of ‘all rights reserved’ to ‘some rights
reserved’.”
• http://search.creativecommons.org/
Find creative commons content (including filters based
18. Creative Commons Licenses
• Attribution: Lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build Creative Commons Labels/Sites
upon the work, even commercially, as long as they credit the
author of the original creation.
• Generally support academic,
• Attribution Share Alike: Lets others remix, tweak, and research or non-commercial uses
build upon the work even for commercial reasons, as long as
they credit the author and license their new creations under
the same terms.
• Donation or flexible pricing models
for personal or other uses
• Attribution No Derivatives: Allows for redistribution,
commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along
unchanged and in whole, with credit to the author.
• Attribution Non-Commercial: Lets others remix,
tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially. New works
must acknowledge the author and be non-commercial.
ccMixter (http://ccmixter.org/)
“Jamendo is a community
“ccMixter is a of free, legal and
community music site unlimited music published
featuring remixes under Creative Commons
licensed under Creative licenses.
Commons where you
can listen to, sample, Share your music,
mash-up, or interact download your favorite
with music in whatever artists!”
way you want.”
19. Magnatune (http://www.magnatune.com)
• Record label
publishing music
under creative
commons licenses
with flexible pricing
models (Pay what
you want and
receive high quality
versions of tracks)