{"id":1090,"date":"2008-01-29T18:41:19","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T02:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/01\/29\/emidaily-news-giveaway\/"},"modified":"2008-01-29T18:41:19","modified_gmt":"2008-01-30T02:41:19","slug":"emidaily-news-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/29\/emidaily-news-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"EMI\/Daily News Giveaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><a title=\"New York Daily News and EMI Music Offer Free Exclusive Music Downloads to Readers\" href=\"http:\/\/poynter.org\/forum\/view_post.asp?id=13085\" target=\"_blank\">New York Daily News and EMI Music Offer<br \/>Free Exclusive Music Downloads to Readers<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe not a big deal to file-traders, but in the world of major labels, it&#8217;s significant.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead of saying no, instead of locking the music up, suddenly EMI is looking for a way to give back, to engage consumers in music, to hook them, TO GROW THEIR BUSINESS!<\/p>\n<p>If this is evidence of the changes Guy Hands has wrought and is wringing, I greatly approve.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of saying Prince giving away his CD with the newspaper is killing the industry, EMI is now seeing the wisdom in new marketing ideas.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a start.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s one I appreciate a lot more than all the demonizing being done in Cannes this week.<\/p>\n<p>Newbies and outsiders are going to inherit the music world.\u00c2\u00a0 If you&#8217;re not willing to say the old ways are outmoded, you&#8217;re not looking for a place in the future infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>We need percentage publishing royalties in the U.S.\u00c2\u00a0 We need far easier made deals.\u00c2\u00a0 If people want to use music, we need to say yes rather than no.\u00c2\u00a0 Or we&#8217;re not going to get paid in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The first mistake was denying Napster a license.\u00c2\u00a0 That revenue will never be recaptured.\u00c2\u00a0 Make the deal now, get the revenue now.\u00c2\u00a0 No one knows exactly where it&#8217;s all going, if you&#8217;re waiting for the ground to solidify, you&#8217;re so far behind the curve as to be irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Daily News and EMI Music OfferFree Exclusive Music Downloads to Readers Maybe not a big deal to file-traders, but in the world of major labels, it&#8217;s significant.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead of saying no, instead of locking the music up, suddenly EMI is looking for a way to give back, to engage consumers in music, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p96vPs-hA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}