Are labels – especially major labels – critical financiers of musical creativity? That is a tough thesis to defend these days, especially against a backdrop of surging music supply and consumption among unsigned artists. But record labels have played a major filtering and financing role in the past, and their pocketbooks have created some of the biggest superstars of modern music history – starting at the stage of obscurity. (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘International Federation of the Phonographic Industry’
IFPI: Labels Investing $5 Billion Annually on Artists…
Thursday, March 11th, 2010Baidu Faces Fines Over Lyrics Infringement…
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Chinese search giant Baidu has largely avoided penalties for song-related infringement, despite accusations of some nefarious deep-linking. The typical – and usually successful – defense is that Baidu is merely a search engine, and not a host of infringing materials. But that argument fell through in a recent, lyrics-related case involving MCSC (Music Copyright Society of China), according to details emerging early Tuesday morning from China. (more…)
