The Canadian Independent Music Association (CIMA) is partnering with Nordicity (with support from provincial and territorial Music Industry Associations) to launch an important study about Canada’s independent music community. This study will firmly establish the actual economic impact that independent music has in Canada, both from a regional and national [...]
Washington, DC-based nonprofit Future of Music Coalition interviewed 80 different musicians and composers, conducted nearly a dozen financial case studies, and ran an online survey completed by over 5000 musicians to uncover . . . [...]
IFPI Publishes Digital Music Report 2012 Download the IFPI Digital Music Report 2012 HERE Download the IFPI Digital Music Report 2012: Key Facts and Figures HERE The following is from the website of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) London, 23rd January 2012 “Digital music goes global in [...]
The following is a keynote address by Michael Geist (Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law) at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg on January 27, 2012 that discusses the role of digital activism in countering bills like SOPA and the ongoing copyfight over the use of WIPO, [...]
Check out Future of Music Coalition‘s Kristin Thomson speak about the Artist Revenue Streams research project at MIDEM 2012: Future of Music Coalition: The New Power Trio: Brands Bands and Revenue – midem 2012 presentation View more presentations from midem
Two weekends ago, I came across a small and inconspicuous write up in the business section of The Globe and Mail, which presented four striking statistics from a recent report published by the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) on digital music. Having no prior knowledge of who the IFPI [...]
The December 4th 2010 Weekend Edition of The Globe and Mail featured a great article in the Focus section (F5) on General Well-Being (GWB) and Gross Domestic Product (GDP). You can read the full article online here. The base of the newspaper version of the article featured quotes from a number [...]