Pete Townshend Announces Method – Online Music Creation Software
Pete Townshend unveiled the new Method software which claims to will help music fans compose music with a voice recording, a digital image and a rhythm clapped into a microphone. The software will instantaneously create digital music and allow anyone to be a “composer.” “The Method is software that creates music, allowing you to ‘sit’ for a musical portrait just as if you were being painted. The software...
Judge Shoots Down ASCAP’s Digital Downloads As Performances
Judge William Conner from the US Register of Copyrights shot down ASCAP’s idiotic attempt to classify digital downloads as performances. In a pure demonstration on how desparate the music industry has become, ASCAP wanted to have the Register of Copyrights declare that digital downloads were actually performances of a song to score an extra royalty. This stupid reclassification was being aggressively pursued by ASCAP, a...






