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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

We are pleased to offer you the ASCAP Daily Brief powered by The Dean’s List This daily email, compiled by ASCAP Board member, music publisher and songwriter Dean Kay, cuts through the media clutter to bring you links to the most relevant news and commentary on the rapidly evolving music industry and how it affects your future livelihood. Now the ASCAP Daily Brief can be accessed on the Headlines page of ASCAP.com and in the ASCAP RSS Feed. Tech companies have made billions supporting the illegal exploitation of our cultural past while ruthlessly pursuing the dismantling of incentives creators need to fashion our cultural future. With the Right Tools, You Can Compete With Free By Sandra Aistars 7 Mythbusting Copyright Law Articles (Article #6) Presented by Terry Hart — (Article #6) – Remix Without Romance — By Thomas W. Joo “How to Succeed” or How’s That Google Downlinking Working Out For You? By Chris Castle Google: We Are So Over Patents, Especially in Their Current Form By VentureBeat.com — After fighting the patent battle of the decade in court with Oracle, Googlers are getting publicly fed up with software patents as a whole. Conceptually, they just don’t jive with innovation, two prominent Googlers have said recently. [As with copyrights, anything that gets in Google’s way of making billions at the expense of others annoys them – DK] Streaming Is Growing — Is Vevo? By Glenn Peoples Spotify’s Monthly Average Users (MAU) Dropping By Eliot Van Buskirk — This would appear to be somewhat alarming, even though Spotify is still by far the most popular music service that connects to Facebook… The Trouble with Hipset: What Do Facebook Likes Really Mean? By Eliot Van Buskirk — According to Forbes, “Schlicht envisions Hipset as the major destination site for music, the way Twitter is for news and Facebook is for friends – a kind of new version of MySpace.” The world certainly needs one of those. But is this it? Why Groupon Is Over and Facebook And Twitter Should Follow By Peter Cohan — …social media attracts consumers because of dopamine – and like any drug those consumers need a bigger dose to get the same effect. Social media’s inability to deliver that is at the root of what makes it hard for it to grow into its lofty valuations. MegaUpload (MegaVideo) Smoking Gun? Did the Site Illegally Charge for Streaming Movies? By The Trichordist Sell Your Music on Your Own Website with CD Baby’s Customizable Widget By Chris Robley New App Plugs Data Leaks By Adam Popescu — Anyone concerned about protecting personal data has to feel like their firewall is more of a pasta strainer right about now. You even leak data when you download apps. Here’s an app desiged to help you understand what you’re giving up when you download. Five Things I’ve Learned from 20 Years of Email By Janko Roettgers — It’s been 20 years since I got my first-ever email address. Back then, I read email with a 2400 bps modem. Today, emails reach me instantaneously on my phone whereever I am. Here are a few important lessons I’ve learned along the way. Protect Your Ears: It’s All About The Music! By Charlie Holland Bandcamp Adds Free Mobile Optimized Artist Pages By Hisham Dahud Eight Ways To Compose Music More Effectively By Marcel Williams — We’ve all been there. Struggling to come up with a melody or working out that perfect ending for your song. This is one of the most frustrating aspects of composing music, especially when you are working towards a deadline. This article contains a few suggestions on how to compose more effectively… VIDEO: Moelcular Synth: Snap-Together Electronic Music Instrument “Bricks” By David Pescovitz DEAN KAY Dean Kay has been at the helm of some of the most highly respected and forward thinking music publishing companies in the world, first as COO of the Welk Music Group, then as President/CEO of the US division of the PolyGram International Publishing Group, and now as President/CEO of his own precedent setting venture, Lichelle Music Company. Prior to his involvement in publishing, he was a successful songwriter, having had hundreds of his compositions recorded – including “That’s Life” by Frank Sinatra. Mr. Kay has been a member of the Board of Directors of ASCAP since 1989 and is Chairman of its New Technologies Committee. He is also on the Board of the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA). The ASCAP Daily Brief-Powered by The Dean’s List is intended as a guide to direct music professionals to key articles about issues facing the entertainment industry. Recipients are encouraged to read further about the issues by accessing the complete article through the links provided. Author attribution is provided with each article, and none of the links allow readers to by-pass subscription archive gateways. Please note that all editorial comments are indicated in brackets. Questions? Comments? Please Contact Us

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