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Apple expands DRM-free music selection [video] (ZDNet)
At Macworld 2009 in San Francisco, Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of marketing, announces a new music price plan and an expanded selection of digital rights management-free songs in its iTunes Store. Users will be able to strip their... Jazz News: Songs from the Heart of a Marketing Plan (All About Jazz)
IN Creator, the rawest track on Santogolds debut and self-titled album, the singer Santi White boasts, Me Im a creator/Thrill is to make it up/The rules I break got me a place up on the radar. Goodbye Macworld, Hello Unlocked Music (Red Herring)
Apple makes final bow at Macworld in San Francisco, where expectations ran low without Steve Jobs. Apple still comes through with a surprise: millions of DRM-free tunes. Correction: Songs From the Heart of a Marketing Plan (New York Times)
A caption with an article last Sunday about the increasing use of music as a branding statement reversed the identities of two musicians shown in a Converse commercial with Santogold, who has licensed three-quarters of her debut album. Julian Casablancas is on her left and Pharrell Williams is on her right. The Porn Star's Revenge: Formerly known as Jeff Stryker, Charles Peyton has turned his toxic feud over the folk-music ... (LA Weekly)
The grandiosely named Marvin Braude San Fernando Valley Constituent Service Center is a normally placid Van Nuys outpost of city bureaucracy. Last August, however, about 100 citizens crowded its Mediterranean-fantasy portico and halls. People had come from Tehachapi and from down the street. Music and Marketing: Songs as Commodities ... (New York Times)
To the Editor:. Urgent Deadline for Newspapers: Find a New Business Plan before You Vanish (Knowledge at Wharton)
It was a tough year for newspapers. The owner of The Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune declared bankruptcy; The New York Times borrowed against its headquarters and even accepted ads on its front page. Detroit's two dailies announced the end of home delivery on all but three days of the week. According to Wharton faculty, if newspapers can't find a new business model quickly, they ... Apple introduces new song prices, uber-connected iLife (Victoria Times Colonist)
Apple Inc., the most popular source of music in the U.S., stripped copy protection from all the songs in its iTunes music store and announced plans to charge as little as 69 cents a track. Hot Shots: Farmer Richard Williams (Hour.ca)
Richard Williams used to read record catalogues, now he pours over seed catalogues. A drummer and former music guy, when the indie record industry started to crumble, he saw an opportunity to try what he'd always dreamed of doing: growing vegetables. ITunes strips songs' copy protection (Boston Globe)
SAN FRANCISCO - Apple Inc., the most popular source of music in the United States, stripped copy protection from all the songs in its iTunes music store and disclosed plans to charge as little as 69 cents a track.
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