Attention Music Industry: You Have Less Than 9 Days to Prepare for Aurous

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  • It could have a bigger impact on the music industry than Napster, Kazaa, Limewire, and Grooveshark combined.
  • It will be about 10,000 times harder to shut down.
  • It will look and feel like Spotify, and will be easier-to-use than Apple Music.
  • It will use the DMCA as a safe harbor against massive copyright infringement liability, just like Google, YouTube, and Soundcloud.
  • It cannot be shutdown, terminated, or sued out of existence.
  • So far, none of the major recording labels, including the RIAA, have confirmed any decisive steps for either negotiating, enforcing, or otherwise dealing with it.
  • It is Aurous, the equivalent of Popcorn Time for the music industry.

 

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Don Henley: ‘The Internet Is Slowly but Surely Killing the Idea of Copyright’

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…from Don Henley’s recent interview with Charlie Rose:

Charlie Rose: Most great artists, have at least told me, I’d say a majority have come to this table, many many great artists… they say it’s hard work.

Don Henley: Someone once said that writing is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration, and I think it’s true.  To finish a great work, you might get a great epiphany or a great idea that comes to you in the middle of the night, and you start writing and you’ve only got this much [showing two fingers].

And after that, you sit down and you sweat it out.  And it is hard work.

That’s why I get so exercised about people stealing songs, because they have no idea what goes into those songs and the work that goes into them.  And that it’s a real job, it’s not a hobby, it’s a calling, and a lot of peo —

Rose: —- a calling —

Henley: — a calling.  And there are a lot of people that don’t get to tour, the people in Nashville and Los Angeles who are just songwriters for a living, they don’t get to tour.  So they make their money solely from that song.  And now of course we have the interactive crowd, who think they can go in and take a song and change it up, it’s like going into a museum and painting a musta—

Rose: These are like DJs?  Or —

Henley: DJs, and the people who sample, and, mostly younger people who think they can take someone’s finished work, and actually tamper with it.  And they don’t understand copyright laws. It’s like walking into a museum and painting a mustache on somebody’s painting —

Rose: — that’s blasphemous to you.

“And that law, the Millennium Copyright Act, needs to be done away with, or re-written, because it’s allowing theft in the billions.”

Henley: It is. And it’s just not right. And we are — the internet is slowly but surely killing the idea of copyright. There was a law, bless his heart President Clinton signed it into law, it’s called the 1994 Millennium Copyright Act, and it has a loophole in it called the Safe Harbor clause, that is abused daily.  And that law, the Millennium Copyright Act needs to be done away with, or re-written, because it’s allowing theft in the billions. Again, we don’t get much response from government, because the big boys are there, with their lobbyists.

But songwriting is a difficult task, it is not easy to write a song. And you spend a lot of time and money recording a song properly, and performing it, and people need to have a little more respect for the job.

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Ten Walls Apologizes for Saying Gay People Are a ‘Different Breed’ and Pedophiles

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It’s gonna be really hard to unring this bell, but…

Back in June, Marijus Adomaitis, aka Ten Walls, expressed some extremely homophobic thoughts on a (now deleted) Facebook post.  Here’s a quick summary.

“I remember producing music for one Lithuanian musician, who tried to wash my brain that I don’t need to be so conservative and intolerant about them.  When I asked him “what would you do if you realized that your 16-year-old son’s browny (anus) is ripped by his boyfriend?”  Well he was silent…

In the good 90s…  these people of different breed where fixed…

One of my first gigs in Ireland, on my way to [my] hotel I saw a church with a fence decorated with hundreds of baby shoes.  Naturally I wondered why?  Unfortunately a priest’s lie for many years was uncovered when children were massively raped.  Unfortunately the people of other breed continue to do it and everyone knows it but does nothing.”

That effectively ended Adomaitis’ career, with nearly ever festival canceling his performances amidst a huge outcry.  Ten Walls’ tour agency and distributor also backed out, though Adomaitis is now apologizing, and blaming a period of ‘anger and stress’ for the hateful comments.

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YouTube’s Premium Tier Is Coming Very, Very Soon

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We’re not sure exactly how this fits into YouTube’s planned Music Key expansion, but an ad-free version of the video service is definitely on its way.  Over the weekend, YouTube started sending letters to holdout content owners requiring agreement to updated terms and conditions that would enable the premium upgrade.

Content owners have until October 22nd to update the agreement, or their videos will be removed.

The email, leaked to Re/Code, notes that ’95 percent’ of content owners have already agreed to the updated terms.  “To give fans more choice we will be launching a new ads-free version of YouTube, available to fans for a monthly fee,” YouTube offered in the email.   “This service will create a new source of revenue over time that supplements your advertising revenue.  We want to ensure that fans who choose to pay for an ads-free experience can watch all the same videos that are available on the ads-supported experience.”

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But, don’t play ball, and you can find somewhere else to put your videos.  “If you haven’t signed by that date, your videos will no longer be available for public display or monetization in the United States,” the note warns, though rights owners will have the ability to change their mind after October 22nd and revive their videos.

 

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Re/Code noted that the ad-free YouTube would be packaged into a Music Key launch, though that represents the latest switch-up in a disorganized and delayed release.  “An update of its music service, which it launched in beta as YouTube Music Key last fall, and another service, yet to launch… will give users the ability to watch anything on YouTube without seeing ads,” Re/Code notes.

Regardless, it now definitely appears that YouTube will not be tolerating holdouts.  Several months ago, YouTube threatened artists that refused to participate in Music Key by removing their channel content, a harsh step that was initially denied until transcripts proved the harsh stance.  Since that point, YouTube remained vague on when Music Key would launch, with executives hesitant to commit to a timetable.

More details as they emerge.

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