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I've also got to sing the praises of WebFWD — my organization, CASH Music, was part of the first class and it was invaluable to us. Great people, continued support, and an experien…

No way of knowing? Really? None? For starters, Google: https://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=major%20labels%20invest%... Doesn't take long at all to find out that the deals struck with m…

Sure. Open source by itself isn't a tax-exempt action, but for many it's an important part of releasing free software for the public benefit. Services for the public benefit that a…

I understand the perspective that operations and growth challenges for a nonprofit are generally the same, but there are some pretty huge differences too. My own organization is a …

The source never gets distributed to the end user, so there's no violation of the GPL. (This use case / loophole is the reason the AGPL was written.)

Effectively closing the source with a loophole and removing user choice. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but it knocks the "for the good of WP users" argument they use down a f…

Your girlfriend didn't recognize penises?

Well the thing with printing is that the K part of CMYK is actually not the darkest black, yet it's 100% K that's used to print a book. Fully saturated rich black (100% C+M+Y+K) is…

Revenue models are all actually different, and kind of messy. In the US, radio pays out royalties for publishing but not for performance/mechanical. That means the rightsholder for…

Different payout rates for free versus paid users, which also varies from country to country based on negotiated royalty rates. I'd also assume exchange rates come into play.

I know Dan and a few of the others involved in this project and their passion is both amazing and warranted. Data is becoming and indispensable tool in the modern newsroom, and it …

It's a little silly to say that record labels only curate content. Of course that's the easiest thing to replace. They also negotiate IP rights in every country in the world, handl…

Yeah that's right. It's a little over-reported. It's also EMI publishing not the label. The original lawsuit brought by Universal is quite a bit more serious: http://news.cnet.com/…

Just to clarify...you gave Apple permission to make money off of your work, right?

And I'm curious — really asking not being passive agressive — do you see an iOS app developed by an independent developer as belonging to both the developer and to Apple? I'd say t…

He edited "shithead executives" down to just "executives." I was responding to the original text. And yes, some labels make money off of the backs of artists, some are really great…

By the way, there's also this link up on DMN: http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2011/111512 I've spoken with a lot of label heads from the more influential names on the lis…

I personally work with hundreds of artists and MANY of them have been treated terribly by customer service when trying to initiate take-downs. When urged to sign licensing deals it…

Yeah Rdio is pretty great, and they give artists access to an under-publicised affiliate program allowing them to earn money off the audience they drive to the platform. Solid iOS …

I work in music, with a lot of indie labels and musicians, and for once the ENTIRE industry is inline on something. Grooveshark has been actively hostile to artists requesting thei…

This is incredibly helpful. I run a small OSS/music nonprofit and as you'd imagine there's not a lot of money in that. Having just gone through the process of looking around for in…

Summary: "kind of, but not really." Only in the comments is the name LiveScript mentioned. I remember actually playing with JS as LS in the Netscape 2.0 days. So the gist is kind o…

For a more practical membership-share or coffee-club type of set up restrictions make sense...but in this case I think the anonymity of it all is the interesting part — seeing the …

One thing that's interesting and only hinted at in the article is the fact that this could also swing retailers who don't currently accept AmEx into doing so. Most people here know…