This is a lightly edited transcript of a talk I gave at the Westminster eForum on Filesharing, copyright and the digital consumer on 14th July. I was pleasantly surprised by how open the music industry seemed to...

Tickemaster and LiveNations are to combine in a $2.5 billion merger. Ticketmaster (NASDAQ: TKTM) is the largest ticketing service in the US while Live Nation (NYSE: LYV) provides artist management, venue ownership and event promotion, and is the...

According to the Financial Times yesterday, songwriters and publishers for the first time earned more from broadcasts and legal downloads of their music in 2007 than from the copyright from sales of CDs. I believe that this...

MCV published the online version of my article How the music industry got it wrong today (republished here as The games industry should learn from the music industry’s mistakes). The thrust of the article is that consumers are...