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Just over a year after it passed the California Senate, Bill 1034 has been signed into law: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday signed a law giving recording artists more flexibility to audit record companies’ finances in search of potentially unpaid royalties. The law, which goes into effect Jan. 1, allows …

We mentioned back in March the Harvard-UNC study by Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf which seemed to indicate that Internet music file sharing has no negative effect on legitimate music sales. Oberholzer-Gee discusses what the industry should do next with Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge: Sean Silverthorne: The draft of …

Whoa, this changes plans for a lot of people – and a lot of bands – for the summer: LOLLAPALOOZA, 2004 CANCELS ALL DATES Los Angeles, CA – June 22, 2004 — Even with what has been touted as the best line-up since its inception in 1991, with such eclectic …

Although I haven’t attended, I am totally down with the Bonnaroo concept of peace, love and eclectic jam bands, and I have no problem with declaring this year’s show another success – the numbers speak for themselves. But what I don’t get is an extended pat on one’s back that …

When Found Music opened on Wilshire in LA – “in the heart of the Miracle Mile” – they were brash, optimistic and funky but chic. Check out the opening message on the site: Buy some stuff from our store. If you don’t buy anything we’ll just go out of business …

Payola never goes away, it just mutates. And we wonder why the major labels still dominate the radio waves? During a single week in May, Canadian pop rocker Avril Lavigne’s new song “Don’t Tell Me” aired no fewer than 109 times on Nashville radio station WQZQ-FM. The heaviest rotation came …

Lite Breeze, Inc., a San Diego based corporation specializing in athletic clothing and sports team uniforms under its brand name IN THE ZONE, has sued Britney Spears for trademark violation for $10 million in connection with her use of “In the Zone” for her latest CD title and other marketing …

You see, there was this band called the Beatles, and at one time they ruled the planet. And they still semi-rule the planet, even though half of them are dead and the other half are into their seventh decades of life. But despite their unrelenting good fortune – or perhaps …

GarageBand.com is offering the Creative Commons Music Sharing License to artists who want to share their music via the site for free: The license allows fans to legally download, copy and share the song as many times as they want, as long as they don’t sell or alter it. For …

Sampling when the sampling was good.