Music Info Sources and Services – LIS5937

Week 4 – on Steve Gordon’s The Future of the Music Business, chapters 7 & 8 – 2/04/2011

Reading Gordon’s assertion that the sale of ringtones is a billion-dollar industry was surprising, although it was interesting to note that more time was not spent on adding this to revenues from other forms of digital [...]

Week 3 – on Steve Gordon’s The Future of the Music Business, chapters 5 & 6 – 1/29/2011

Whether intending to communicate this message or not, Steve Gordon’s explanation of the complexities of licensing, especially of music when synced with video of some sort, (music video, concert recordings, and other music-use-in-film), suggests that the [...]

Week 2 – on Steve Gordon’s The Future of the Music Business, chapters 3 & 4 – 1/22/2011

Gordon does a great service for his readers in quickly differentiating ‘webcasting’ from ‘interactive streaming’ – necessarily so, for legal and financial reasons – as follows: webcasting is essentially radio delivered through the Web, (insofar as [...]

Week 1 – on Steve Gordon’s The Future of the Music Business, chapters 1 & 2 – 1/10/2011

Despite Gordon’s problematic assertions, he rightly noted ‘bad’ choices of record labels, trade organizations and of aggregators like Apple via iTunes in legally pursuing individuals and by implementing byzantine DRM as methods to stem the tide [...]

Posts prior to this compose the whole of my course reading journal for LIS 5937 (Fall 2010) – Information Architecture; every post after this contributes to my course reading journal for LIS 5937 – Music Information Sources and Services (Spring 2011).