Helienne Lindvall, Author at Digital Music News

Introducing the ‘Image Right,’ an IP Protection That Lasts Forever…

May 15, 2013

While tech lobbyists are working hard to reduce the scope of copyright, Channel Island Guernsey has just introduced a new intellectual property right – the Image Right (IR) – and anyone in the world can registe... Read More...

The ‘Orphan Work’ Scam: Can the Global Repertoire Database Solve It?

Helienne Lindvall

May 13, 2013

The Global Repertoire Database – the project that will catalogue all the world's music – today announced that it is setting up its global headquarters in London, while basing its operations in Berlin. It's one... Read More...

The RIAA Just Made It Easier to Earn a Gold Plaque Than to Pay Rent…

Helienne Lindvall

May 10, 2013

Major label trade organisation RIAA has just announced that from now on, on-demand downloads will count toward its Combined Gold and Platinum Digital Single Award Plaques. Opting to rely on average consumption... Read More...

Rhapsody Adds Liner Notes, But How Detailed Is the Information It Holds?

Helienne Lindvall

May 8, 2013

Rhapsody has announced, at the Music Biz 2013 conference, that it's going to add liner notes and credits to its digital music service, giving users the ability to search for specific songwriters, producers – or... Read More...

Artist Development Isn’t Dead. It’s Merely Being Outsourced…

Helienne Lindvall

May 7, 2013

As recorded music revenue has plummeted in the past decade, the old traditional development deals that record labels used to offer have largely disappeared. Instead, major labels generally expect artists to co... Read More...

Should Labels Bypass SoundExchange and Enter Into Direct Deals with Clear Channel?

Helienne Lindvall

May 3, 2013

Last year's House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on the Internet Radio Fairness Act (IRFA) ended up spending a considerable time discussing the disparity between internet and terrestrial radio royalties. While... Read More...

Not Making Money on Spotify? How X5 Increased Their Streams by 3,400%…

Helienne Lindvall

May 1, 2013

Having heard Johan Lagerlof, the CEO of Stockholm-based digital compilations company X5, speak at an innovation panel at Midem this year, it was no surprise to hear the news that Universal Music Group has forme... Read More...

Google Executive: ‘We are Clearly a Company That Fights Piracy on the Internet’

Helienne Lindvall

April 29, 2013

Judging by the presentation Google's president of southern and eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa did at last week's CISAC (the International Confederation of Authors and Composers Societies) conference... Read More...

Report: TV Advertisers Overwhelmingly Prefer Older, Familiar Music…

Helienne Lindvall

April 26, 2013

Legacy artists, old rockers and major labels still rule the world of UK TV advertising, according to a new survey by sync specialist AdbreakAnthems.com. The top musical choices to accompany ads for anything fr... Read More...

Spotify Cofounder Martin Lorentzon Outed as a Tax Dodger…

Helienne Lindvall

April 25, 2013

It's been a week of outing the tax avoiders. First, Eric Schmidt was grilled on BBC Radio 4's The World at One over the fact that Google pays virtually no tax on UK profits, despite sales of £3.1 billion ($4.8... Read More...

Record Store Day Spells ‘Ka-Ching Day’ on eBay

Helienne Lindvall

April 22, 2013

In case you missed it, this past Saturday was worldwide Record Store Day. In the UK and Ireland alone, 215 stores signed up for the event, and London's Berwick Street, once littered with record stores catering ... Read More...

If Only the Tech Industry Understood the Music Industry They Want to ‘Replace’…

Helienne Lindvall

April 18, 2013

Another day, another muppet claiming to have replaced the music industry. This time it's Vikram Kumar, CEO of Mega, the new cloud storage dreamt up by the self-proclaimed artist rights champion, Kim Dotcom (cur... Read More...

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Introducing the ‘Image Right,’ an IP Protection That Lasts Forever…

The ‘Orphan Work’ Scam: Can the Global Repertoire Database Solve It?

The RIAA Just Made It Easier to Earn a Gold Plaque Than to Pay Rent…

Rhapsody Adds Liner Notes, But How Detailed Is the Information It Holds?

Artist Development Isn’t Dead. It’s Merely Being Outsourced…

Should Labels Bypass SoundExchange and Enter Into Direct Deals with Clear Channel?

Not Making Money on Spotify? How X5 Increased Their Streams by 3,400%…

Google Executive: ‘We are Clearly a Company That Fights Piracy on the Internet’

Report: TV Advertisers Overwhelmingly Prefer Older, Familiar Music…

Spotify Cofounder Martin Lorentzon Outed as a Tax Dodger…

Record Store Day Spells ‘Ka-Ching Day’ on eBay

If Only the Tech Industry Understood the Music Industry They Want to ‘Replace’…

Author Helienne Lindvall