Berry... was very keen on songs being standards. He was looking at people like Gershwin and he knew that you need to hear something over and over in order for it to stay in the consciousness of the people and for it to mean something in people’s life. So you might have had a hit, but after two months somebody at the company might re-record it and have a different take on it, give it a new lease of life. | | | | Bonobo at the Velodrom in Berlin, May 26, 2018.
(Frank Hoensch/Redferns/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Berry... was very keen on songs being standards. He was looking at people like Gershwin and he knew that you need to hear something over and over in order for it to stay in the consciousness of the people and for it to mean something in people’s life. So you might have had a hit, but after two months somebody at the company might re-record it and have a different take on it, give it a new lease of life.”
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| | rantnrave:// Funny thing about music creators and the tech companies that make their work available on the internet: They're in the same business. They're part of the same family. Music publishers and YOUTUBE may not always see eye to eye, same as brothers and sisters may not always see eye to eye (my siblings and I are the exceptions that prove this rule), but they all realize, deep down, that sooner or later they have to get used to living in the same house. CHRIS COOKE does a nice job of pinpointing the central dilemma of the debate over the COPYRIGHT DIRECTIVE, which took a giant step toward passage with a surprisingly lopsided vote Wednesday. "Everyone in the music industry wants YouTube to pay better royalties," he writes, "but at the same time everyone wants to reach the YouTube audience." Corollary: Everyone in the tech industry wants to pay lower royalties, but at the same time everyone in tech wants to reach the music audience. For the three or four of you who aren't clear why everyone's still arguing with everyone, read those last two sentences again. Says tech, in regard to the controversial Article 13 of the Copyright Directive: Remixes and mashups are f***ed. Says music: Services can be licensed to support remixes, and mashups are covered by existing copyright exceptions (such as parody, criticism, citation). Says tech: The METALLICAs of the world will have their grunts making sure to pull down that birthday party video of you and your friends just trying to have a good time while some song was on the radio. Says music: The Copyright Directive imposes no obligation on users. The obligations relate only to platforms and rightsholders. Says tech: No filter exists that can even approximate GOOGLE's Content ID, and the closest equivalents are mostly run by American companies, meaning that US Big Tech is going to get to spy on everything Europeans post and decide what gets censored and what doesn't. Says music: What’s being proposed in the EU is that the platforms that host user-uploaded content might have to—get this—pay license fees to producers of that content and, further, that they might have to enable the content producers to have more control over how their works are exploited. Says techie WYCLEF JEAN: You're thinking about the value gap the wrong way. Says music man PAUL MCCARTNEY: No, we're not. Says tech: This will stifle your creative freedom. Says music: Artists will have a say and capture more revenue. Says me: I want to be able to access music as widely, deeply and easily as possible. Also says me: I want artists to be paid fairly, accurately and on time. Solve that, Europe, and we're good, like one big happy family... AEG says it will no longer block-book London's O2 Arena and LA's Staples Center, and SHARON OSBOURNE's lawyer says she and her husband no longer need to sue AEG. Speaking of happy families... Musicians—some of them anyway—starting to make bank off SPOTIFY stock payouts. And—look for it—quite possibly the single worst quote a music exec has uttered in 2018... MTV will air episodes of MAC MILLER's reality show, MAC MILLER AND THE MOST DOPE FAMILY, as part of a tribute to the late rapper... JASON ISBELL and JOHN PRINE big winners at AMERICANA AWARDS... LIVE NATION to brands: Live music is better... Good thread on REM, PITCHFORK, music criticism and how perceptions and prejudices change over time... DOOBIE... BROTHERS... RIP RACHID TAHA, JOHNNY STRIKE and SIEGFRIED LINKWITZ. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Music Business Worldwide |
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 | Complex |
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 | NME |
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| The New York Times |
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 | The Washington Post |
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