We sip Cotes de Provence from blush-colored wine glasses under the summer sun at the end of a European business day, talking about technology and the international music business. Not

You are about to read a very special report, one that provides revenue figures never before shared and in a way never before calculated—by product category rather than by type

True confessions. Some days I am unsure how or where to begin telling a story when something is occurring that perplexes me because it mashes up so many opinions and

Parental Guidance Suggested: Some of the following material may not be suitable for sensitive readers. To the attorney(s) in the music user community, whoever you are, who convinced the U.S.

We become numb to huge numbers after we hear them often enough. Like hundreds of millions and trillions, the number of reported performances of music that some performance rights societies

Rarely do any of us get even a glimpse of the inside story about how a digital music company, created with much hope and promise and money invested for its

Last month Canadian collective rights society SOCAN, which represents the performing rights of songwriters and music publishers, acquired U.S.-based MediaNet, a business-to-business digital music service provider. At first blush the