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“Which Type of Mac Do You Recommend?”
These days, almost any Mac will work fine for VJ-ing.
If you are on a budget, then go for the Mac Mini.
If you want mobility, then get a MacBook Pro.
If you’re power hungry and need to run advanced things like the Alpha/Keyer Module and need to make… Continue reading
“I’m Having Issues With My Software, Can You Help?”
I tend to get a lot of calls, emails and tweets from people who are having issues with presentation software and technology related to it. And as much as I want to help everyone, my response could best be summed up with Joshua Blankenship’s twitter … Continue reading
Words of Wisdom from Roger McNamee
My friend Roger McNamee, a founding Partner and Managing Director of Elevation Partners has been getting some great press lately on his thoughts on the new music business, investing in technology, Apple, Google, Facebook and much more. Here is the transcript…
Tomorrow’s Forecast
Negotiating season is over, and for once a new music technology is being brought to consumers with the blessing of the music industry—we’ve not been blindsided, ignored, or misled. Or at least we don’t know it yet. In fact, for the first time in decades, the music industry and the publishing business in particular acquitted themselves quite nicely at the bargaining table, not sticking in the fork to gouge a promising innovation but not settling for table scraps either. Maybe ten years of trouble has taught us something. No one wants to mess up what might be the last great hope for the music business. Continue reading
iCloud – Amnesty for Music Pirates?
Well, we finally have it. Music like water raining down from the sky. iCloud.
For slightly more than $2/mo everybody will soon have access to all the music they can find, steal, share, rip, produce, morph or buy using iTunes…
Attention Music Managers and Artists: you may be owed BILLIONS in unpaid royalties
If you are a recording artist or a manager and have been distributing music on iTunes under a deal with one of the big record labels, pay attention.
F.B.T. Productions in Detroit, the producers who helped Eminem achieve his success are… Continue reading
If The Shmoo Fits…
Just last week, the Copyright Royalty Board released the statutory royalty rates for Internet radio royalties, which are royalties paid by webcasters for the streaming of sound recordings. It’s not exactly the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. At the same time, it’s actually a step forward from where we were several years ago.
The published rates apply to “noninteractive streaming”, which refers to streams that do not allow the listener to specifically select each individual track– it covers everything from radio-like “broadcasts” to what are termed “pureplay’ webcasters like Pandora. And more importantly, these rates are for royalties paid through Sound Exchange to performers on the “sound recording”– that’s in addition to the royalties paid to music publishers and songwriters, through ASCAP, BMI and SESAC. If you are a performer who writes and publishes his or her own music, you should receive royalties from Sound Exchange (representing your earnings as a musician and/or owner of the sound recording) and from ASCAP, BMI or SESAC (who collect your money as the composer and publisher of the song). Continue reading
Apple catching up with ilearnmusic.com – 6 years later!
Back in 2003, ilearnmusic.com was founded with the premise of providing free music education videos and resources for anyone who came to our website. Now Apple has caught up 6 years later by including great free piano and guitar lessons … Continue reading
