Hello, Eric again.
Like most people who live in Austin, I dabble a bit in the music. I have bands and guitars and cds and a modest desire to rock. Also, like most people in Austin, I have had to sustain my desire to rock with a constant supply of day jobs. Most of my day jobs have been with start-ups or my own companies, and so I have developed a smidgin of business awareness.
I have been following the two big stories regarding music and the internets - Radiohead’s big breakaway from “the suits” and the RIAA lawyers’ successful prosecution of the lady in Minnesota — with more than casual fancy. I thought I should take this opportunity to highlight a few of our network bloggers weighing in on the subject.
New Music Strategies has a nice little piece regarding some of the label PR that is going around.
The Red Ferret Journal asks Are we witnessing the death throes of the music industry?
The Legal Scoop wonders whether we should revamp the royalty structure more generally.
iPlot says radiohead has become a verb.
The Daily Galaxy says that technology is evolving faster than the law.
Paul Stamatiou is taking bets on how much longer DRM can last.
BlogCritics weighs in with Thoughts About the Business Models of Radiohead, Oasis
Medialoper concludes Change is good. I like change.
Well, OK Blogland. I have finished listening to In Rainbows, and so I am going to close up this post. In closing I would like to take you back to a day, not too long ago, when risk in the music industry was not just some fiscal paradigm, but real genuine risk to life and limb.
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