YouTube in 'landmark' music deal
Madonna is one of Warner's headline actsVideo-sharing site YouTube has signed a deal with media giant Warner Music to allow its material to be used legally.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5357390.stm
The deal means intervies and videos by warners artists can be used for some of the profits that are mde throught advertising revenue by youtube. Youtube has also introduced a royalty tracking system which allows them to see when videos on the site are using copywrighted material and to figure out how much advertising revenue is owed to warner.
It has been descried as media 'transformed' it allows warner to review homemade videos and decide wether to approve or reject them.
Warber music group are the fourth biggest record company in the world.
Friday, March 30, 2007
YouTube in 'landmark' music deal
Madonna is one of Warner's headline actsVideo-sharing site YouTube has signed a deal with media giant Warner Music to allow its material to be used legally.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5357390.stm
The deal means intervies and videos by warners artists can be used for some of the profits that are mde throught advertising revenue by youtube. Youtube has also introduced a royalty tracking system which allows them to see when videos on the site are using copywrighted material and to figure out how much advertising revenue is owed to warner.
It has been descried as media 'transformed' it allows warner to review homemade videos and decide wether to approve or reject them.
Warber music group are the fourth biggest record company in the world.
Madonna is one of Warner's headline actsVideo-sharing site YouTube has signed a deal with media giant Warner Music to allow its material to be used legally.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5357390.stm
The deal means intervies and videos by warners artists can be used for some of the profits that are mde throught advertising revenue by youtube. Youtube has also introduced a royalty tracking system which allows them to see when videos on the site are using copywrighted material and to figure out how much advertising revenue is owed to warner.
It has been descried as media 'transformed' it allows warner to review homemade videos and decide wether to approve or reject them.
Warber music group are the fourth biggest record company in the world.
i tunes outsells conventional record stores
Download retailer iTunes now sells more music in the US than some of the country's biggest traditional retailers, according to analysts.
NPD compared 12 iTunes separate song downloads to one album purchase at an ordinary retail store. iTunes beat Tower Records, Borders, and Sam Goody, the survey said.
But it was beaten by others, including Wal-Mart and Amazon.com, NPD found.
More than seven out of 10 US digital music sales through PCs are through iTunes, a figure which grows when Apple Mac users are taken into account, NPD said. see the full article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4459312.stm
NPD compared 12 iTunes separate song downloads to one album purchase at an ordinary retail store. iTunes beat Tower Records, Borders, and Sam Goody, the survey said.
But it was beaten by others, including Wal-Mart and Amazon.com, NPD found.
More than seven out of 10 US digital music sales through PCs are through iTunes, a figure which grows when Apple Mac users are taken into account, NPD said. see the full article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4459312.stm
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Music industry websites and various links:
Guardian research into Digi:nation click here
Controversy and Legal issues: Click here
According to a June 28, 2005, report in The New York Times, Lime Wire LLC was considering ceasing distribution LimeWire due to the outcome of MGM v. Grokster. On September 25, 2005, it was reported that Lime Wire LLC was working on a version of the program which will refuse to share files that lack valid license information. Neither of these events occurred, and as of March 2007, it is still possible to download LimeWire and share copyrighted files.
File Sharing: Click here to see the article
MySpace sued by Universal Music: Click here
Universal Music Group is suing MySpace - claiming the online social network site is encouraging its users to illegally share music and music videos.
It accuses MySpace of allowing people to illegally upload videos and of providing the technology for users to share the content with others.
Links to work by its artists including The Killers, Jay-Z and Gwen Stefani are available, Universal alleges.
MySpace set to sell music online: Click here
Website MySpace is to allow unsigned bands featured on the social networking site to sell their music as downloads.
The site - which has 106 million users - is currently testing the idea, and hopes to rival market leader iTunes.
Nearly three million bands feature on the site, with individual bands set to decide on the price of their tracks.
Guardian research into Digi:nation click here
Controversy and Legal issues: Click here
According to a June 28, 2005, report in The New York Times, Lime Wire LLC was considering ceasing distribution LimeWire due to the outcome of MGM v. Grokster. On September 25, 2005, it was reported that Lime Wire LLC was working on a version of the program which will refuse to share files that lack valid license information. Neither of these events occurred, and as of March 2007, it is still possible to download LimeWire and share copyrighted files.
File Sharing: Click here to see the article
MySpace sued by Universal Music: Click here
Universal Music Group is suing MySpace - claiming the online social network site is encouraging its users to illegally share music and music videos.
It accuses MySpace of allowing people to illegally upload videos and of providing the technology for users to share the content with others.
Links to work by its artists including The Killers, Jay-Z and Gwen Stefani are available, Universal alleges.
MySpace set to sell music online: Click here
Website MySpace is to allow unsigned bands featured on the social networking site to sell their music as downloads.
The site - which has 106 million users - is currently testing the idea, and hopes to rival market leader iTunes.
Nearly three million bands feature on the site, with individual bands set to decide on the price of their tracks.
Monday, March 26, 2007
Blogging: the future?
www.robinsloan.com/epic
The video on the link raised the following debates:
The video on the link raised the following debates:
- In 2008 Google and Amazon may merge creating a source which can provide a custom news service for the user.
- The fact that in a digital world are copywright laws defunct?
- It could provide a custom content package made up of what past searches have been made, what subjects you have been talking to with friends. This could be good for some people allowing people to get news from all over the world from various sources and providing a personalised service, however, for some it could just be a super source of trivia and some may not be true.
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Article summaries
Writers who work for nothing: it's like writing a licence to print money summary
Original article by John Naughton
The BBC had a picture of the inside of a train carriage shortly after a crash occurred on the train, below the picture was a legend 'send your pictures to yourpics@bbc.co.uk' it is a striking example of what has become known as user-generated content.
When the London bombings occurred on the 7Th of July 2005 marked the first time we had seen such impact on traditional news media in Britain. there was too much for the TV networks too cope with so they were desperate for any footage and imagery that became available. It flooded in from camera phones and digital cameras of observers on and under the ground some was striking moving and informative some was just ghoulish and tasteless but whatever its characteristics it was greedily accepted by the networks. main stream media began to understand what user-generated content meant.
Last year, enough digital information- from blogs and e-mails to mobile phone call, photos and TV signals - was generated to fill a dozen stacks of hard back books stretching from the earth to the sun. the total digital content was 161 billion gigabytes or enough to fill 161 billion i-Pod shuffles. researchers also predicted that by 2010 more than 70% of total digital content will have been generated by the consumer.
What it means however is not clear, optimists see it as a great release of human creativity, where people finally have the tools to express themselves to a wide audience.
Cynics see it differently as living proof giving blogging or movie editing equipment to the average punter is like giving a clock to a monkey. sceptics say 'who is going to pay for the bandwidth needed to host the 100 million video streams you tube provides everyday? or the storage needed to maintain the 57 million blogs currently in existence?
Media moguls used to be sceptical but know they have wised up. they are after all purveyors of content which has always been expensive but user generated content is free all they ask or is gratis and a space to publish in. all that remains is to find a way of monetising it.
An interesting analysis comes from blogger Nick Carr 'one of the fundamental economic characteristics of web 2.0 is the distribution of production into the hands of the many, and the concentration of the economic rewards into the hands of the few.'
We're all reporters in the digital democracy summary
Original article by Emily Bell
One of the most profound changes is taking place in the mainstream media is the part played by the audience. Once a passive receptor for messages from newspapers, radio and TV, media consumers are now making themselves heard.
For as long as there has been journalism there have been bystanders and eye witnesses. what has changed over the last 3 years has been the speed, volume and type of response made possible by the Internet, broadband and digitised media.
There is no doubt the way 9/11 was reported would be done so differently now, there would be thousands of mobile phone images and dozens and dozens of video clips as well as instant and continuous blogging of the event and stream of amateur photography made available on sites such as Flickr. since the tsunami and the London bombings it is almost second nature for citizens caught up in a news event to record it on increasingly handy digital equipment.
Local papers have always been close to the public and usually have a middle page called the village round up submitted by local residents.
the mainstream media has a job to do in not just incorporating these eyewitness testimonies into its own work but aggregating these communities of potential contributors.
Is there a difference between the professional journalist and the citizen contributor? by the very definition there is - one is casually contributing their expertise, the other is paid for an ability to make judgements on how to convey stories or content in the most effective way. but the idea that what the professional journalist can provide will always in all circumstances be qualitatively better than a citizen journalist is not true anymore - if it ever was.
Original article by John Naughton
The BBC had a picture of the inside of a train carriage shortly after a crash occurred on the train, below the picture was a legend 'send your pictures to yourpics@bbc.co.uk' it is a striking example of what has become known as user-generated content.
When the London bombings occurred on the 7Th of July 2005 marked the first time we had seen such impact on traditional news media in Britain. there was too much for the TV networks too cope with so they were desperate for any footage and imagery that became available. It flooded in from camera phones and digital cameras of observers on and under the ground some was striking moving and informative some was just ghoulish and tasteless but whatever its characteristics it was greedily accepted by the networks. main stream media began to understand what user-generated content meant.
Last year, enough digital information- from blogs and e-mails to mobile phone call, photos and TV signals - was generated to fill a dozen stacks of hard back books stretching from the earth to the sun. the total digital content was 161 billion gigabytes or enough to fill 161 billion i-Pod shuffles. researchers also predicted that by 2010 more than 70% of total digital content will have been generated by the consumer.
What it means however is not clear, optimists see it as a great release of human creativity, where people finally have the tools to express themselves to a wide audience.
Cynics see it differently as living proof giving blogging or movie editing equipment to the average punter is like giving a clock to a monkey. sceptics say 'who is going to pay for the bandwidth needed to host the 100 million video streams you tube provides everyday? or the storage needed to maintain the 57 million blogs currently in existence?
Media moguls used to be sceptical but know they have wised up. they are after all purveyors of content which has always been expensive but user generated content is free all they ask or is gratis and a space to publish in. all that remains is to find a way of monetising it.
An interesting analysis comes from blogger Nick Carr 'one of the fundamental economic characteristics of web 2.0 is the distribution of production into the hands of the many, and the concentration of the economic rewards into the hands of the few.'
We're all reporters in the digital democracy summary
Original article by Emily Bell
One of the most profound changes is taking place in the mainstream media is the part played by the audience. Once a passive receptor for messages from newspapers, radio and TV, media consumers are now making themselves heard.
For as long as there has been journalism there have been bystanders and eye witnesses. what has changed over the last 3 years has been the speed, volume and type of response made possible by the Internet, broadband and digitised media.
There is no doubt the way 9/11 was reported would be done so differently now, there would be thousands of mobile phone images and dozens and dozens of video clips as well as instant and continuous blogging of the event and stream of amateur photography made available on sites such as Flickr. since the tsunami and the London bombings it is almost second nature for citizens caught up in a news event to record it on increasingly handy digital equipment.
Local papers have always been close to the public and usually have a middle page called the village round up submitted by local residents.
the mainstream media has a job to do in not just incorporating these eyewitness testimonies into its own work but aggregating these communities of potential contributors.
Is there a difference between the professional journalist and the citizen contributor? by the very definition there is - one is casually contributing their expertise, the other is paid for an ability to make judgements on how to convey stories or content in the most effective way. but the idea that what the professional journalist can provide will always in all circumstances be qualitatively better than a citizen journalist is not true anymore - if it ever was.
Case study: areas of study
Case study: areas of study
Technology: What the technology allows audiences and institutions to do that they couldn’t do before.
Convergence: multiple technologies being brought together to form a new product.
Linear/non-linear- linear experiences are those that move in straight line from start to finish E.g. the cinema.
Digitisation: At its most basic form all digital material is made up of a series of 0’s and 1’s. this means that the material be reproduced perfectly.
Institutions: How media institution are converging media interests to increase profit.
Interactivity: Is a two-way communication and in the context of NMT’s means content that is reactive to the audiences choices.
Interactivity: Is a two-way communication and in the context of NMT’s means content that is reactive to the audiences choices.
Audience: What are audiences doing with their new media technologies? How are traditional experiences of the media changing? You will carry out audience research, asking opinions and investigating consumption patterns.
Personalisation: Is their ability to offer users a personalised experience. E.g. Sky+ allows users to personalise their viewing schedule including the ability to pause live TV and automatically record their favourite programmes.
Linear/non-linear: linear experiences are those that move in straight line from start to finish E.g. the cinema.
Interactivity: Is a two-way communication and in the context of NMT’s means content that is reactive to the audiences choices.
Democratisation: the ability to communicate your opinions and ideas, or share your creative output. The digital divide shouldn’t be forgotten, however; not everyone has Internet access never mind a blog.
Personalisation: Is their ability to offer users a personalised experience. E.g. Sky+ allows users to personalise their viewing schedule including the ability to pause live TV and automatically record their favourite programmes.
Linear/non-linear: linear experiences are those that move in straight line from start to finish E.g. the cinema.
Interactivity: Is a two-way communication and in the context of NMT’s means content that is reactive to the audiences choices.
Democratisation: the ability to communicate your opinions and ideas, or share your creative output. The digital divide shouldn’t be forgotten, however; not everyone has Internet access never mind a blog.
Issues: Does the new media technology encourage illegal activity or increased spending or harm children? Will shops close or people lose jobs as a result?
Democratisation: the ability to communicate your opinions and ideas, or share your creative output. The digital divide shouldn’t be forgotten, however; not everyone has Internet access never mind a blog.
Democratisation: the ability to communicate your opinions and ideas, or share your creative output. The digital divide shouldn’t be forgotten, however; not everyone has Internet access never mind a blog.
The Future:
If the technology is extended, what could happen? How could media practices be different in future, based in the potential of current technologies?
Digitisation: At its most basic form all digital material is made up of a series of 0’s and 1’s. this means that the material be reproduced perfectly.
Friday, March 23, 2007
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