Comments on: Music Industry: “Dude, we are, like, soooooo screwed :(” http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2007/06/30/music-industry-dude-we-are-like-soooooo-screwed/ A barrister gossips & rants on intellectual property law, the legal system and civil liberties. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:04:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Moon23 http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2007/06/30/music-industry-dude-we-are-like-soooooo-screwed/#comment-15117 Moon23 Mon, 02 Jul 2007 08:58:51 +0000 http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2007/06/30/music-industry-dude-we-are-like-soooooo-screwed/#comment-15117 Hopefully this will see more de-centralization within the music industry and less of a manufacturing and marketing of bands. Companies will have less control over distribution which we are already seeing. Unfortunately I suspect that music revenue will be tied in even more heavily with advertising, mobile phone ring tones etc.. and branding campaigns for new products and life-style companies such as virgin active. I’m sure as well speak companies are paying bands to have their music blurting out of their second-life shopping centers. Hopefully this will see more de-centralization within the music industry and less of a manufacturing and marketing of bands. Companies will have less control over distribution which we are already seeing.

Unfortunately I suspect that music revenue will be tied in even more heavily with advertising, mobile phone ring tones etc.. and branding campaigns for new products and life-style companies such as virgin active. I’m sure as well speak companies are paying bands to have their music blurting out of their second-life shopping centers.

]]> By: Blawg Review #115 at Nearly Legal http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2007/06/30/music-industry-dude-we-are-like-soooooo-screwed/#comment-15116 Blawg Review #115 at Nearly Legal Mon, 02 Jul 2007 06:36:01 +0000 http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2007/06/30/music-industry-dude-we-are-like-soooooo-screwed/#comment-15116 [...] illegal says Techdirt, and in the UK music industry figures admit their business model is doomed, Geeklawyer sympathises, a little [...] […] illegal says Techdirt, and in the UK music industry figures admit their business model is doomed, Geeklawyer sympathises, a little […]

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