Helienne Lindvall, Author at Digital Music News

This Is the Story of How Facebook Alienated a Perfectly Good Dance Label…

June 21, 2013

Facebook's decision to charge labels for sending updates to their subscribers is alienating indie labels. Now, many of these labels are increasingly turning their backs on the social media giant. "Indie lab... Read More...

Study Finds That Wealthier People Steal More Music…

Helienne Lindvall

June 18, 2013

That's according to research commissioned by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA), which found that Australian illegal file-sharers are richer than the average Australian. Of the 1,000 adults q... Read More...

Clear Channel President: “Not All People Can Afford a $15 a Month Subscription…”

Helienne Lindvall

June 11, 2013

This week's most anticipated news may have been the almost-launch of Apple’s iTunes Radio. Yet the president of Clear Channel, John Sykes, has told Digital Music News that those declaring the imminent death of ... Read More...

If Licensing Is ‘Cancer’ for Startups, Deezer CEO Axel Dauchez Has a Cure…

Helienne Lindvall

June 7, 2013

Deezer's CEO, Axel Dauchez, has told the World Creators Summit audience that the fragmentation of music rights is the "cancer" threatening to destroy innovation in digital music services. And he's come up with... Read More...

The US Copyright Office Demands That Broadcasters Start Paying Artists…

Helienne Lindvall

June 6, 2013

Speaking to a crowd of people from the creative industries at the World Creators Summit in Washington, DC, the US Register of Copyrights, Maria Pallante, has confirmed that she's looking to "provide a full publ... Read More...

Google Declares: We Can Find the Pirates, We Can Report Them to the Authorities…

Helienne Lindvall

June 2, 2013

In a recent interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt had some advice for those who want to protect their creative output from unlicensed exploitation: follow the money. W... Read More...

7 Reasons Why Artists Should Skip a BitTorrent ‘Media Partnership’

Helienne Lindvall

May 29, 2013

Lately, BitTorrent, Inc. has made a concerted effort to appear "legit", courting both artists and their managers. It's even managed to become a "tech partner" of the UK Music Managers Forum. But is partnering... Read More...

Experts Agree: The DMCA Takedown System Is a Joke, and Must be Scrapped…

Helienne Lindvall

May 28, 2013

In the past couple of days, the DMCA takedown system has come under attack both from the RIAA and anti-copyright campaigner Derek Khanna. No doubt this has been brought on by the Congressional review of the DMC... Read More...

Sony/ATV, the Publisher, Wants the Same Royalty Rate as Sony Music, the Label

Helienne Lindvall

May 24, 2013

The planned June launch of Apple's streaming service is set to be delayed because Sony Music, the record label, and Sony/ATV, its publishing arm, are holding out for better deals. Sources have told the New Yor... Read More...

Rod Stewart Has the Worst Metadata In the Entire World…

Helienne Lindvall

May 21, 2013

Rod Stewart fans may have been a bit confused by the title of his new album when they went to stream it on Rdio last week. What is perhaps even more surprising is that no one at Rdio or Universal h... Read More...

If People Really Cared About ‘Legal Hosting,’ RapidShare Wouldn’t Be Dying…

Helienne Lindvall

May 20, 2013

It’s a common line of defense by services such as MegaUpload while fighting attacks by the entertainment industry: "We're used for legitimate file hosting." But the news that RapidShare has sacked 75 percent ... Read More...

SRR Capital Launches With a VC-Style Approach to Music Investing

What Is Attribution?

So Busy With "The Quiet Time..."

Netflix Won the Streaming Wars. YouTube Changed the Rules.

Indonesia: One of the World’s Most Promising Digital Music Markets

What Politicians Could Learn from the Music Business: A Midterm Election Primer

This Is the Story of How Facebook Alienated a Perfectly Good Dance Label…

Study Finds That Wealthier People Steal More Music…

Clear Channel President: “Not All People Can Afford a $15 a Month Subscription…”

If Licensing Is ‘Cancer’ for Startups, Deezer CEO Axel Dauchez Has a Cure…

The US Copyright Office Demands That Broadcasters Start Paying Artists…

Google Declares: We Can Find the Pirates, We Can Report Them to the Authorities…

7 Reasons Why Artists Should Skip a BitTorrent ‘Media Partnership’

Experts Agree: The DMCA Takedown System Is a Joke, and Must be Scrapped…

Sony/ATV, the Publisher, Wants the Same Royalty Rate as Sony Music, the Label

Rod Stewart Has the Worst Metadata In the Entire World…

If People Really Cared About ‘Legal Hosting,’ RapidShare Wouldn’t Be Dying…

Author Helienne Lindvall