We’ll Save You! Ek and Cavallo to labels
p2pnet news view Music:- It’s official! The corporate music industry is in deep —- sorry, in desperate need of salvation!
And Spotify’s Daniel Ek over in Sweden and producer Rob Cavallo in the US believe they’re just the guys to assist.
Can a streaming service, “help rescue the music industry from meltdown”? – asks Times Online.
Ek reckons so, although, “In terms of monetisation, we’ve admittedly not made it easy for our users to buy music,” he says in the story.
“That’s an area we need to improve …”
And, “in a sign that the struggling recorded music company is seeking to bolster its ranks of artists,” Warner Music Group has hired producer Rob Cavallo for the, “newly created position of chief creative officer,” says the Los Angeles Times.
Certainly, Warner can use all the help it can get.
The ASCII pic below was one of several posted as Reader’s Writes in a p2pnet story, yesterday. It quoted people who appear in a GooTube video to express their opinions on Warner’s failed efforts to stop people from using Warner stuff in home-made flicks.
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Meanwhile, if Ek is banking on streaming, Cavallo is putting his money on Dickens.
Charles Dickens.
“The fan is interested in what’s happening every day,” he says in the LA Times.
The fan, eh?
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[...] spoke of turning the “drama” of making a CD into a sort of Charles Dickens-like series (he couldn’t possibly be alluding to Paramore, could he?), a landscape where artists would have to view every aspect of their career, perhaps even their inter-band relationships, as a money-making possibility.
“Why don’t we make it be more like Dickens?” – he asks in the story. “What’s happening today? Making records is a drama in and of itself. Bands can decide how much and how little they want to put in it, but I know that all the records that have come out of my studio in the past 2½ years have had intense drama. People are interested in that. Some of that is private, but a lot of it can be used.”
No wonder Big Music [read Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music] is in deep — sorry, in desperate straits
No need to stay tuned.
Times Online – Daniel Ek of Spotify: we can save music biz, October 8, 2009
Los Angeles Times – Warner Music Group names producer Rob Cavallo chief creative officer, October 8, 2009
p2pnet – Fuck – You – W – M – G, October 8, 2009
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October 10th, 2009 at 12:55 am
Has it not occurred to anyone that the current music industry isn’t worth saving?
October 10th, 2009 at 12:56 am
I mean that it has not occurred to anyone from this article or the industry as a whole. I obviously realize that most readers of this blog get it.
October 10th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
“Has it not occurred to anyone that the current music industry isn’t worth saving?”
It is definitively not worth saving at all. It is too infested with parasites and criminals.
All the current 7 major entertainment and media corporations must be destroyed and sterilized before we can rebuild and restart.
October 10th, 2009 at 11:55 pm
Guys – the industry is deeply perturbed about the 35 year old copyright termination clause from the 1976 legislation.
Anyone really interested in whehter the Music Industry can survive 2013 or not should go and read an article called “Copyright Battle Comes Home” by Eriq Gardner IP Law & Business – October 08, 2009
http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1202434372952&pos=ataglance
No wonder they’re trying to control all the ISP’s. After 2013, they will gradually loose all their content with the exception of “work for hire” content.
Sounds of the Death March slowly crescendo to 30 decibels…
October 16th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
The current music industry should be destroyed. I believe artists will be better off not signing their souls away to them, ONLY IF there’s a way for independent artists to get the same opportunities as those signed artists.