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WIRED MAGAZINE REPORTS MAJOR LABEL RECORD COMPANIES INVOLVED IN NEW MYSPACE MUSIC !!
WIRED MAGAZINE- April 3 2008 http://www.wired.com/wired/
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- MySpace, which has lured millions of big acts and garage
bands alike to build profiles on the popular social networking hub to attract fans,
said Thursday it will turn those pages into portals for selling music, merchandise
and more.
Helping back the new MySpace Music are three of the biggest recording
companies -Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group, Sony BMG Music
Entertainment and Warner Music Group Corp.
Financial terms of the partnership were not disclosed, but each of the music
companies will receive an unspecified equity stake in the new company, said Chris
DeWolfe, MySpace co-founder and chief executive.
The fourth-largest music company, EMI Group PLC, is not part of the deal.
DeWolfe said MySpace is in licensing talks with "everyone" but declined to say
where discussions stand with EMI, home to artists such as Coldplay and Norah
Jones.
MySpace Music, which will roll out gradually in coming months, will enable artists
to sell music downloads, concert tickets and merchandise such as T-shirts
through their profile pages and to offer ringtones through a unit of MySpace
parent News Corp.
"We believe that the Web is becoming increasingly more social," DeWolfe said
during a conference call. "MySpace Music is a new way of experiencing music
online that everyone can participate in."
Fans also will be able stream audio and video for free through musical artists'
profile pages.
DeWolfe said some tracks will be sold without copy-protection safeguards but
noted that the major labels had committed only to experimenting with offering
content in an unrestricted format.
Selling music without the copy protections that make such tracks incompatible
with Apple Inc.'s iPod music players could place MySpace Music in direct
competition with existing digital music stores such as Apple's iTunes,
Amazon.com, Napster Inc. and others, analysts said.
"It's definitely got a lot of potential to it, but how much it really changes the game is yet to be determined," said Michael Gartenberg, vice president and research director for JupiterResearch.
"This is one of those important events in the history
of digital music and it has a lot of potential going forward."
MySpace may also be looking for ways to maintain its lead on rival social network
Facebook, which has been gaining in popularity.
James McQuivey, digital music analyst for Forrester Research, noted that the
venture is wisely aiming to serve as a one-stop portal for music fans.
"A MySpace music store is exactly the right step to get the music industry to the
next level because it recognizes that consumers don't just buy music, they
experience it ... That's what people do with music already on MySpace, it's what
has made Last.FM and iMeem.com so popular so quickly," he said.
The company declined to discuss pricing or other revenue details.
In 2006, MySpace began letting artists sell music from their profile pages using a
third-party technology, but that capability never was integrated into the site the
way MySpace Music's storefront will be, DeWolfe said.
MySpace, which boasts more than 110 million monthly users, has more than 5
million profile pages showcasing major label artists, independents and unsigned
acts. All those artists would eventually be able to take advantage of MySpace
Music's offerings, the company said.
MySpace Music will operate as a separate company, with a president who reports
to DeWolfe and to a board of directors that will include representatives from the
recording companies.
MySpace had been discussing the venture with music companies for several
months, during which MySpace and Universal Music overcame a major hurdle - a
copyright infringement lawsuit Universal brought against MySpace in 2006 over
alleged illegal music sharing.
The two companies settled the dispute when MySpace agreed to pay Universal
$100 million, according to a person familiar with the settlement who spoke on
condition of anonymity because the terms are confidential.
Sony BMG is a joint venture of Sony Corp. and Bertelsmann AG.
Shares of Warner Music rose 2 cents to close at $5.81. News Corp. shares rose 17
cents to $20.17.
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ALTERNATIVES TO MYSPACE
So I been searching for good alternatives to myspace and been up against really bad terms of service for most sites. Most sites want to have ownership of the content in order to re publish it on the internet. While this is important, most sites are using terms of service that put all the ownership control into thier hands so they can do whatever they want with your songs/content. Most can make compilation CDs include your songs and not ask you pay royalties or even tell you that they are doing it.
So I have been battling with these sites to have them make their terms of service more artist friendly. I have found one site that I like
FUZZ.com
http://instantasshole.fuzz.com/
Fuzz started out with bad terms and has since changed them based on my input. They are SF based and run by musicians that I know personally. Its a good site that serves as a good alternative to myspace for musicians and bands.
Check out http://www.FUZZ.com and join! And leave rupert murdock with the yuppies christians and censors to themselves back at myspace.
Instant Asshole will be keeping their myspace site but moving all content to :
http://instantassshole.fuzz.com
The myspace site will serve to direct people to our new pages and to hold the INSTANT ASSHOLE spot here so we can retain public use of the name
peace,
John the Baker
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