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Six-year-old BandLab announced the multimillion-dollar raise via a release on the website of Caldecott Music Group. BandLab’s parent company, BandLab Technologies, rebranded as Caldecott earlier this month (leaving BandLab Technologies in place as a tech division) and is also the owner of NME, Guitar.com, Uncut, and other news platforms. Source: BandLab Completes $53M Series B Read More …

A week after filing suit to nullify Maryland’s library e-book law, lawyers for the Association of American Publishers filed a subsequent motion for a preliminary injunction, arguing that if the law is allowed to take effect, AAP members will suffer irreparable harm. Source: AAP Seeks Preliminary Injunction to Stop Maryland’s Library E-book Law

No-shows, as such concert-goers are called, have increased in significant numbers since the U.S. live-music business restarted this summer, music executives say. For some performances, as many as 20% or more of ticket-buyers were no-shows for major artists like George Strait, the Eagles and Dead & Company, according to industry insiders. Source: Major Music Acts Read More …

In 2015 one might have imagined that the major studios would simply shrivel up and die like so many other market-leading firms in other “disrupted” industries. But they haven’t. And the reason they haven’t reveals a path forward for managers in industries facing digital transformation. Source: Lessons from Hollywood’s Digital Transformation

You don’t hear much about a “war on Christmas” this year, but you do hear murmurings about a war on comedy. It’s a loggerheads that has Spotify under scrutiny for removing a significant number of comedy albums from its service, in response to many comics and their reps believing they have a right to the same kind Read More …