Permission is a theme I expect to return to often during the rest of the year. How the Internet has ended the primacy of the distributor in favour of the creator, and hence eliminated the need to...

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...

Too Much Joy have published their royalty statement from Warner Bros. It’s ten pages long,but the summary looks like this: === Summary === Beginning balance: . . . . . . . . . . $395,277.18- Total...

C&binet was a gathering of the great and good of the British creative industries at the swanky Grove Hotel. But did it achieve its aim of becoming a British Davos for our industry? The Cabinet Forum event...

According to MCV, Resident Evil 5 has done the business. Statistics from Verdict Research show that it outsold every item on the single charts (including digital sales) as well as the latest album from U2. It also...

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...

TechCrunch reports that Pandora Radio has started serving audio ads. Pandora, like Last.fm, provides a free, personalised stream of music over the web to your desktop (Pandora also offers an iPhone app, although the whole Pandora service...