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How would you feel about a music site that organizes music according to your moods? What would be your thoughts about a destination where you can legally download MP3’s based on emotions?
Guitarati is conducting this grand sonically visual experience by assigning colors to music.
It is certainly unique and outside the box, but will it resonate?
Yet another lawsuit is pending in the continuing saga of major labels and the RIAA focusing their resources on the wrong fight. It appears they think, for whatever reason, it will get them somewhere, but is it the wrong direction from where they should be traveling?
Warner Music Group is the latest to file a lawsuit, this time against the playable music search company SeeqPod.
Wired columnist Eliot Von Buskirk writes in a recent article:
“Rather than attacking SeeqPod, the labels should view it as a template for how to make money on the internet, which isn’t going away any time soon.
The labels could even harness SeeqPod’s search technology to offer music services far more comprehensive than the ones licensed today.
The music industry would become “Google-ized,” deriving revenue from other products associated with music, rather than music itself.
With music sales continuing to decline, SeeqPod’s attempt to Google-ize the industry could be a perfect fit for the labels’ much-vaunted 360-degree deals, which emphasize merchandise, ticket sales and other revenue streams.
The question now, as it has been since the early days of Napster, is whether the labels are flexible enough to survive the free-music age.
Seeqpod may be more of a publishing/performance rights issue, but Eliot’s viewpoint makes sense. Rather than trying to protect a system that is becoming outdated, we should be embracing cutting edge solutions to cutting edge technology. Check out the full article here.
U2 manager Paul McGuinness recently raised a lot of music industry eyebrows with a speech in which he pushed for greater regulation on access providers. McGuinness, speaking in Cannes, pointed the finger at tech manufactureres and ISP’s when he said, “Network operators, in particular, have for too long had a free ride on music — on our clients’ content………..It’s time for a new approach — time for ISPs to start taking responsibility for the content they’ve profited from for years.”
The speech full speech is here.
