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Music Piracy Costs Europe $190 Million a Year, EU Study Estimates

Edit Billboard 25 May 2016
Music piracy has taken a small but noticeable bite out of potential profits for the recording industry throughout Europe, according to a new study by the European Union Intellectual Property Office ... The EUIPO report analyzes direct sales of music to domestic retailers, not sales by distributors like online platforms, and is based on data from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) ... ....

'Why They Hate Us': Two thumbs up for the Sayid Qutb segment

Edit The Examiner 25 May 2016
On May 23, Fareed Zakaria’s “Why They Hate Us” aired. The hour-long documentary explains why radical jihadists hate America. Of all the big names that appeared or were mentioned in the documentary, Sayid Qutb’s name is probably the least recognizable to the average person. It was surprising to see him mentioned at all ... A jahili society plays jazz music on a phonograph while women in dainty teacup dresses dance with men in suits ... ....

Young Liverpool creative talent inspires giant artwork at iconic ‘Littlewoods Studios’ (BPI - British Phonographic Industry)

Edit Public Technologies 25 May 2016
(Source. BPI - British Phonographic Industry). Actress Katherine Rose Morley, singers Lapsley and Louis Berry and digital entrepreneur Leon Rossiter feature in the UK's largest ever cross-city street art project. Liverpool, U.K ... Also featuring are bold flashes of some of the Liverpool's freshest talent ... BPI - British Phonographic Industry published this content on 25 May 2016 and is solely responsible for the information contained herein....

Ariana Grande's 'Dangerous Woman' Leads Tight Race for U.K. No. 1

Edit Billboard 24 May 2016
Ariana Grande is battling it out with Richard Ashcroft in a tight race for the U.K. albums chart crown. Grande’s third album Dangerous Woman (Republic) is at No. 1 on the midweek chart, just 100 sales ahead of Ashcroft’s These People (Righteous Phonographic), the former Verve frontman's fifth studio album and his first solo collection since 2010’s United Nations Of Sound ... Albums Chart ... 1s Again on U.K ... 5 ... ....
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Men working at Spotify shop in London King's Cross Railway Station.

Spotify's losses swell even as online music industry booms

Edit The Times of India 24 May 2016
STOCKHOLM. Streaming leader Spotify said Monday that its losses deepened last year even as the company topped $2 billion in revenue amid the global boom in online music ... The soaring growth of subscriptions to Spotify and its rivals led the global music industry to post significant growth for the first time in nearly two decades last year, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry ... RELATED....

EUIPO: EU recording industry loses €170 million annually due to music piracy (PRH - National Board of Patents and Registration of Finland)

Edit Public Technologies 24 May 2016
(Source. PRH - National Board of Patents and Registration of Finland). A new report from the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) shows that €170 million, or 5.2 % of all music sales, were lost in the EU in 2014 due to music piracy ... The study is based on data from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), which represents recording and music licensing companies worldwide ... Germany ... CDs) ... France ... Sweden....

Transportation v communication: the fight for control of the new frontiers

Edit The Guardian 24 May 2016
Matt McAlister. Google’s self-driving cars will have a real and lasting role in our lives while Facebook’s investments in VR will only make a temporary impact. Supported by. Outbrain. Contact author. @mattmcalister ... In the early-20th century, reproducing pianos nearly became big business ... And then the US financial markets crashed in 1929 ... Remember that phonographs nearly died in the 1920s and ‘30s as radios took off ... Shows were live ... Related ... ....

PPCA, Foxtel, and s.154(1) (Australian Copyright Council)

Edit Public Technologies 23 May 2016
(Source. Australian Copyright Council) PPCA, Foxtel, and s.154(1). On 13 May 2016 the Copyright Tribunal handed down its orders and reasons in the dispute between the Phonographic Performance Company of Australia (PPCA) and Foxtel. The facts. The PPCA is the collecting society representing copyright owners for commercially released sound recordings ... The new scheme, if approved, would replace the current scheme between the PPCA and Foxtel....

British Artists & Composers On Music Exports Drive To Hollywood (BPI - British Phonographic Industry)

Edit Public Technologies 23 May 2016
(Source. BPI - British Phonographic Industry). Musicians attending BPI, MPA & UKTI Sync Mission to Los Angeles to be supported with Arts Council England Funding. Selected artists and composers to take part in private showcase and pitching panel with Hollywood executives ... ENDS -. Media Enquiries ... BPI - British Phonographic Industry published this content on 23 May 2016 and is solely responsible for the information contained herein ... (noodl....

Richard Ashcroft: These People review – bloated production and clunking metaphors

Edit The Guardian 22 May 2016
2 / 5 stars. (Righteous Phonographic Association/Cooking Vinyl). Richard Ashcroft must be delighted that the Stone Roses have set the bar so low for big indie comebacks ... It doesn’t help that every song is needlessly drawn out ... ....

YouTube streaming is making it hard for artists to earn a living, BPI figures show

Edit The Independent 20 May 2016
... less than vinyl sales, according to the latest figures from the British Phonographic Industry....

Stellar year for British music as UK artists achieve record 17.1% global share – but to sustain this success Government must fix music’s “Value Grab” (BPI - British Phonographic Industry)

Edit Public Technologies 20 May 2016
BPI - British Phonographic Industry) British artists dominate at home, with 7 of year's top-10 artist albums, while globally they account for half of top-10 best sellers, including Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith, One Direction & Coldplay ... About the BPI (British Phonographic Industry)promoting British Music ... BPI - British Phonographic Industry published this content on 20 May 2016 and is solely responsible for the information contained herein....

Almost 300 famous actors, writers urge Britain to stay in EU

Edit Arabnews 20 May 2016
Attached Files. . ID. . 1463773652466742300. Publication Date. . Saturday, May 21, 2016. LONDON. If celebrity power were votes, Britain's European Union membership would be secure ... "Let's not become an outsider shouting from the wings." ... Data released Friday by the British Phonographic Industry showed than one in six music albums sold in 2015 was by a British act, and UK actors regularly headline Hollywood films ... World. ....
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