ASCAP Tries To Qualify Digital Downloads As Performances

Online Music Stores Protest ASCAP’s Idiotic Money Grab Apple, AOL, and Yahoo! have battled against an effort to qualify paid downloads as a public performance. The group, represented by the Digital Media Association (DiMA) filed an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief opposing a claim by ASCAP that digital music downloads should be counted as performances. This May, ASCAP will try to convince a federal court that the...

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BT Posts $20,000 Reward For Stolen Studio Gear

Brian Transeau aka BT is offering a $20,000 Cash Reward or his equivalent time as a producer in exchange for information that will lead to the recovery of $150,000 dollars worth of music gear that was stolen from his personal studio. A deeply saddened BT wrote a reward plea to recover most of the equipment that was utilized to create his latest album “This Binary Universe” including his desktop Apple Mac Pro, Dave Smith...

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