music

With an ever-growing list of services like Spotify, mSpot, Omnifone, Pandora, Catch Media, mFlow, Grooveshark and maybe even one day iTunes it's clear: music is moving into the cloud. Is ownership over? How will rightsowners get paid? What are the threats and opportunities for labels, publishers, collecting societies, managers and artists?

How to use local, social and cultural content and grow globally: The focus is to discuss different business strategies for music and music tech companies, and what their implications are from a legal, financial and international point of view.

In our next OpenMusicMedia session on the 26th May we will be joined by Stephen Godfroy who is the Director of Rough Trade Retail.

This think tank will look at just what the recordings industry can do to revive the album's flagging condition. Full details: http://www.musictank.co.uk/events/album-format

World premieres of astonishing artworks, an explosive city-wide music programme, and visionary thinkers from around the world across 4 festival strands - Art, Music, Ideas and Showcase.

Join some of the world’s best music execs, technology innovators, immersive entertainment, branded content and social media experts, VC’s and entrepreneurs to explore the future of music: new growth opportunities, new partnership possibilities and new business models.

Sony Music, MySpace Music, Euro RSCG KLP, Thinktank and Heartbeats will present their experiences and thoughts about communicating with consumers via social media at the Brands, bands and social media savvy event in Central London. http://brand-e.biz/bands.html

For the first session we'll draw our references from an article that recently appeared in Wired about 'Interactive Music'.

Music 4.5 will bring together music tech start-ups, serial entrepreneurs, investors, artists, band managers and key industry players to share knowledge, discuss strategies for business success, debate market trends and evolution, as well as network. Use code JAC10 to get a 20% discount.

Join us for the only dedicated music industry event for Social Media Week, London. This panel will push further than the cliched doom and gloom of piracy, and explore the overall business impact of social media.

This session will investigate the impact that the Licensing Act 2003, noise abatement orders and Met Police's Risk Assessment form 696 are having on venues, and the live music ecosystem throughout England and Wales - from local authorities and licensed premises owners to music performers and promoters.

Mobile Music Now is the right kind of event for the busy exec who wants to cement existing business alliances and build new ones. I’m delighted to confirm its return this summer, and feel confident that the entertaining format and the recession-busting price tag will guarantee a sell-out event

This MusicTank seminar will lift the lid on the social media phenomenon and reveal how rights holders can better engage with this social space and make sense of its increasingly complex future.

MusicTank is pleased to be active at MidemNet 2009, presenting its first post-Millennials conference road-mapping brainstorm update at which Terry McBride will discuss progress with James Yuill's manager, Amul Batra and others AND its Filesharing Report following its recent "Let's Sell Recorded Music!" discussion strand.

This series will focus on that third prong: effective legitimate alternatives. Over the course of the four events we will review what people want, where technology is heading, what the most plausible new models are and how they might be licensed.