From the "Music is a Platform"
" Panel at the Web 2.0 conference.
The panelists:
Hank Barry, Partner, Hummer Winblad
Mike Caren, Senior Vice President of A&R,
Atlantic Records
Eddy Cue, Vice President, Applications and
Internet Services, Apple
Danger Mouse
Michael Weiss, CEO, Streamcast
DJ Danger Mouse (right) talked about using
sony's Acid software to make the grey album. I'll have the Mp3 of this discussion up in a little bit. DJDM talked about
using a cracked version of the software and making the Grey Album because he had nothing to loose if he got sued.
Micheal Weiss is pitching a new website called Neonet (can't find the domain) that he says is a next generation P2P
search technology.
Here is part one of the discussion in MP3. Part two is coming up.
... more to come… the panel is still going on….
Apple said they had 70% of the legal market. Apple thinks the marketplace wants an a la cart downloads. Hank pointed out that artists get 10-14% of retail (i.e. a la cart) sales, all you can eat licenses mean the labels have to pay the artists half. So, the labels don't want to do it.
1. But I can play the heck out of a laptop. I take a huge amount of enjoyment out of remixing, mashing, as well as creating original music. It kills me that I have to be afraid of getting into trouble for doing the first two. There's no malice behind it, just a love of music and creating something new. I appreciate discussions like this being taken seriously. Hopefully people like me won't feel we have to run for cover just for creating something new.
Posted at 6:38AM on Dec 19th 2005 by LO2