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BPI unblocks FilesTube FilesTube was one of the websites that UK internet service providers were ordered to block their users from accessing after court action by record industry trade body the BPI back in October last year. But earlier this month the website, which previously aggregated links to content stored in cyber-lockers, which was therefore mostly unlicensed, relaunched as an aggregator of only legit video-on-demand content. According to Torrentfreak, FilesTube's Poland-based operators anticipated having to go the English High Court themselves to get their domains unblocked in the UK, but it turned out the BPI was monitoring the situation and voluntarily requested the block be removed. That the BPI responded so quickly to the change in business model at FilesTube is pretty impressive, though such action helps back up the trade group's claim that one of its motivations for blocking piracy websites is to persuade the operators of said sites to go legit. The BPI's General Counsel Kiaron Whitehead told TorrentFreak: "We are pleased that the block has encouraged FilesTube to change its business model so that it no longer appears to infringe music rights. Accordingly, we have agreed to un-block the site, which the ISPs will implement over the next few weeks. We hope that other sites which are subject to blocking orders will follow suit and help to support the development of legal digital entertainment". Meanwhile Maciej Zawisza from FilesTube welcomed the development, saying: "We used to be a media search engine for content on cyber-locker sites. Now we operate as a free VOD aggregator with licensed content only. We are grateful to BPI for agreeing to lift the blocks and we look forward to the growth of the new FilesTube". Of course, while it's good to try to persuade the operators of piracy sites to re-invent their services as legit concerns, it remains to be seen if FilesTube can retain its audience now that it is only aggregating content from licensed sources. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Selena Gomez signs to Interscope Gomez was previously signed to Disney's Hollywood Records, but fulfilled her contract to the label with the greatest hits record that was released last month. She wrote on Instagram over the weekend: "Guess who's officially an Interscope artist #thisiswhatdreamsaremadeof" alongside a photo of what looks a bit like a record contract. Universal handles distribution for Hollywood Records in many markets, so has had some involvement already in Gomez's music career. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Imagem no longer for sale As previously reported, New York bank Jeffries LLC was reportedly sounding out bidders back in the spring who were interested in acquiring the music publishing group, which includes classical publisher Boosey & Hawkes, theatrical rights set up the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organisation, and the Imagem-branded publisher which specialises in pop and rock songs. Though it was thought then that the current owners were in no rush to sell, and would only do a deal if the right price was offered - $650 million was a mooted valuation. Last week Imagem's owners confirmed that, having reviewed their options, a sale was now off the agenda, and instead management at the company would focus on further developing the business, including seeking new acquisitions. A statement read: "During the review [of the business], Imagem and its shareholders saw great interest from many parties, either trade parties or new parties, to acquire the whole Imagem Group or specific parts. However, because of the successful and stable businesses of Boosey & Hawkes and Rodgers & Hammerstein, both market leaders in their specific genres, which are growing in popularity every year, not least because of an aging demographic in Western economies, and the growing business of Imagem Music, the strategy now will be to grow these activities further, including through new acquisitions". Commenting on this news, Group CEO of Imagem, André de Raaff, told reporters: "We are looking forward to this exciting new chapter in the Imagem story and expanding our position as the world's number one independent music publisher". -------------------------------------------------- Warner Music Group sees 74% boost in streaming income Overall, the smaller of the music majors saw revenues increase to just over $3 billion, 40% of which came through digital services. However, operating losses also increased, in part due to ongoing costs related to the acquisition of the Parlophone Label Group. Though Billboard notes that if PLG's figures are taken out, then WMG would have seen a 5.6% decline in revenues year-on-year. Speaking on an earnings call last week, CEO Stephen Cooper referenced the difference in revenues provided by ad-funded and subscription streaming (the latter being far more lucrative), saying that the reason the company still provides its content to the former is "because it provides the means for consumers to discover the advantages of the premium offerings". And doing that is of interest to the company at large because, while Warner saw an overall increase in digital revenues, income from the sale of downloads fell by 14% - just $1 million separating streaming and downloads in the final quarter of the firm's 2013/14 financial year. Physical revenues meanwhile dropped a further 9%. As usual, a chirpy outlook came with the financial statement, Cooper saying: "We are proud of everything we accomplished this year. We had great success with artists at all stages of their careers, breaking amazing new talent as well as taking our established roster to new heights. At the same time we expanded our digital footprint, announced several groundbreaking partnerships and pushed into emerging markets, ensuring we are well positioned to capitalise on future growth opportunities as the industry evolves and streaming services achieve scale". | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Collective moves out of artist management, Linkin Park to self-manage The move to kill the artist management side of the company follows the firm's decision to shutter its film and TV talent management agency last year, and the news that one of The Collective's highest profile music clients, Linkin Park, had opted to manage themselves. On the refocus of his business, The Collective chief Michael Green told Variety: "We've built a real investment, a real MCN, and it's succeeding - and my heart is no longer in the management world". While for their part, Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda said: "We've decided to bring our management duties in-house, to directly hire talent to support the innovative ideas the band plans to pursue in the coming years". | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mixcloud announces stats and new advisors as it passes five years If you want some more Mixcloud stats, well, you're in luck. Of the six million pieces of content uploaded to Mixcloud, 200,000 went live in the last month alone, and with uploads averaging 45 minutes (Mixcloud is for mixes and radio-style programmes rather than single tracks), according to the firm's maths that's four hours of content being added every minute. Co-founder Nico Perez told reporters this morning: "To put this into perspective, 100 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute. So we could not be happier with our performance, considering we have never had any form of external commercial backing. Over five years, we have steadily and organically grown to over twelve million monthly users, despite many of our high profile competitors receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in funding". New advisor McIntyre has previously worked at the likes of Last.fm, CBS and AOL, while Cohen is founder and CEO of music media company LoveLive. On his new advisors, Perez continues: "Fred has an enormous amount of experience leading the Last.fm product, and is pertinently based in the Bay Area. Richard brings an incredible wealth of knowledge around working with brand partners and the live music space. We're excited about the collective IQ that they bring to the table and how they can help us build a product that brings the best ingredients of radio to streaming". | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Marilyn Manson speaks on Lana Del Rey 'rape' video Manson himself has since said, via NME: "It wasn't a Marilyn Manson video. The editor of the company that put it out was somebody who's edited my videos, that video was something that was done with a camera that Eli, who's my friend, and I both wanted to test out, so I let him test it out. What they filmed was put in context seemingly as if it were a Marilyn Manson video, and that was in no way the intention". Of Del Rey's involvement in the scene, Manson added: "Eli and I wanted to do a music video with her but she was being such a problem. Although I still respect her, I'm friends with her. I just left, I was tired, I was not willing to make that part of the video. Eli and I originally had intentions of making a video with her, but that is not the intention that is represented in that film clip because that is not what I filmed, not for my video". Manson continued: "But the people put it together with my other clips. And it really strongly stands out of place, it doesn't really make sense. I would not make a video of that nature, nor would Eli. I don't think either of us were ever intending for that to be seen, it was more of a camera test. I'm a person that would beat somebody's ass if they raped somebody that I know". Lana Del Rey is still to comment on the 'camera test'. -------------------------------------------------- REM are never ever ever getting back together To be fair, if you're going to go on a morning TV show to promote a new DVD boxset of your former band's music, you are opening yourself up to inane reunion questions. So it's his own fault. Asked about the possibility of a reunion when he appeared on CBS's 'This Morning' last week, Stipe said: "No. That will never happen. There's no point. I love those guys very much and I respect them hugely as musicians and as songwriters and everything but I just don't want to do that thing that people do. I despise nostalgia. I'm not good at looking back". "I'm not good at looking back", said the man promoting a retrospective boxset. 'REMTV' is out now, kids. Watch the full interview here. -------------------------------------------------- Guitar music not dead, claims man with guitar Speaking to the NME, McCann said: "Guitar music's not dead. We're a guitar band and I fucking love it. Royal Blood are killing it, The 1975 are killing it. When we write songs, I just think, 'Are 60,000 people going to want to sing this back to me? Is someone in a nine-to-five job going to feel euphoric listening to it?' If not, I'm getting rid of it". If you're sitting their shaking your head right now, it's presumably because you're reading this at a computer. McCann added: "The people that get us are not the people that sit at their computers, they're the people working shit jobs or on the dole, like I was". | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Beach Boys 1964 rarities released to reboot copyright, what about The Beatles? This time last year the major, in cahoots with Beatles company Apple Corps, suddenly released 'The Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963' onto iTunes. It transpired that the release was less about giving fans a pre-Christmas rarities treat, and more about extending the copyright in those recordings. As much previously reported, the copyright term for released sound recordings in Europe was extended from 50 to 70 years last year, meaning the lucrative Beatles catalogue - getting perilously close to going 'public domain' in Europe - was given an extra 20 years of copyright protection. Though the copyright in unreleased works was not affected by the change in European law, and is still 50 years after the recording is made. Therefore the copyright in any unreleased sound recordings made in 1964 will expire on 1 Jan next year, unless said recordings are released between now and then. If they are released (or even just aired in public), then the copyright is actually rebooted, so they will get 70 years copyright protection from this year onwards. Therefore the aim of 'The Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963' was to reboot the copyright in a bunch of sound recordings whose copyright protection was about to expire. It was widely expected that a 1964 edition would follow, rebooting the copyright in any unreleased recordings that the Fab Four made that year, though it's yet to surface, and the official line is that no such album is incoming. Despite that, a surprise arrival over the Christmas period would not, really, be much of a surprise. Meanwhile, Sony Music is set to put out a bunch of Bob Dylan rarities from 1964 to likewise reboot the European copyright in those recordings, the company and he having done the same in 2013 (actually before The Beatles got in on the act). Also jumping on the copyright reboot bandwagon are The Beach Boys, who recently released a number of previously unheard tracks, including outtakes, live recordings and some BBC sessions - all rarities dating from 1964, naturally. Whether any more re-boot-legs can be expected between now and the year's end, well, we'll keep our ears to the ground. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ed Sheeran too wet to record a Bond theme, says Ed Sheeran Though it's not as easy as you might think. That Ed Sheeran, what a... erm, yeah, what a... I know, what a numpty. That's as good as I've got. And I've been insulting popstars in the media since the 90s. I mean, you might not be a big fan of his music, but he has that irritating habit of always coming across as a down-to-earth really likeable kind of guy. Anyway, good news, I think, because here to start the Ed Sheeran dissing party is, well, Mr Ed Sheeran. Asked by Digital Spy whether he'd like to record the theme song for the in-development James Bond film 'Spectre', Sheeran mused: "I am a James Bond fan, but I think the James Bond theme tune should be ballsy and I feel like if I was going to do it, it would sound a bit wet. I'd love to do a James Bond song but can you imagine it? I just wasn't born with the James Bond voice. You never know, I'm not ruling it out. Maybe in ten years time when my balls drop it would improve". Saying he was more comfortable writing songs for 'The Hobbit' (which he did), he went on: "'The Hobbit' song was perfect for me to do because it's quite folksy and rootsy and guitar-driven and a hairy short man should be singing a song about that. Whereas James Bond... I think Sam [Smith] is perfect for that, proper suited up, strong voice. I'm backing Sam but I think anyone from Sam to Paloma Faith, anyone who does the retro thing really, really fucking well should do it". Look at that - Ed Sheeran - such a nice popstar he has to start his own backlash. What a bastard. Oh look, I'm joining in now. Let the backlash begin! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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