Wednesday February 28 MAD FOR MOVIES: The audience for movies in Korea grew by 12 percent last year. But that audience wasn’t wild about the home team. “The audience share of Korean films decreased 3.2 percent to 32.6 percent, with foreign films attracting 67.4 percent of the audience.” Korea Times 02/28/01 WHERE CREDIT IS DUE: One of the … Continue reading “Media: February 2001”
“MP3.com announced a distribution agreement with the Universal Music Group on Tuesday, shortly after a federal court awarded the world’s largest record company $53.4 million in attorney fees and statutory damages stemming from one of the Web site’s streaming audio services.” – Sonicnet
Sixty-six American orchestras make a net deal. “Under the tentative agreement announced Tuesday, orchestras would make two kinds of performances available on the Internet: live and unrecordable streaming audio or prerecorded music to be downloaded. It would be up to a local committee of musicians and managers from each orchestra to decide what concerts to … Continue reading “TAKING IT TO THE NET”
What, exactly, constitutes an interactive broadcast? If webstreamers are broadcasters and can get blanket royalty licenses to cover playing music like broadcasters do, then streaming takes a big jump forward. If the licenses aren’t allowed, then a webcaster would have to go to every artist it wants to play to get permission. That would guarantee … Continue reading “A WEBCASTER’S DEFINING MOMENT”
