MySpace expand content filtering system - as featured in CMU

MySpace has announced it will make available free software tools to enable media companies to block the  uploading of unauthorised video clips to the social networking site. The service extends a facility already offered to owners of music content.

An interesting story in the Digital Music News regarding a licencing agreement between Pandora and The Orchard. This obviously could have wider implications on how services are licenced in the UK.

 

The Orchard has recently licensed its considerable independent catalog to Pandora Media, a long-running recommendation play.  Pandora is now pushing into the UK market with a streaming radio service, a launch that is slated for later this year.  The service, already live in the United States, allows users to initiate a custom-tailored stream of songs, starting with a favorite track. 

 

 European Digital Content Revenues to Boom - as featured in CMU

 

Revenues from online 'creative content' in Europe will increase fourfold in the next four years to 8.3 billion euros (which is about 5 and half billion pounds). Or, at least, that's the opinion of a new European Commission report, which reckons that 20% of the music market will go online in the next four years, while 33% of the gaming market will come from online services. And while the movie industry will probably only draw 7% of its revenues from the net, that will be a massive increase in itself, amounting to over a billion euros in 2010 compared to just 18 million euros last year.

Interesting story in the New York Times about the music industries softening on the approach of a global licence fee. A system which is similar to that proposed by the likes of Playlouder which would see royality payments collected through monthly ISP fees.

 

CANNES A year ago, the music industry was in near hysteria over the French government's proposal to impose a global license fee that would stand in for royalty payments on the purchases of digital music over the Internet