Apr�s moi le d�luge?
News from MIDEM in Cannes as reported in The Times today. This covers
pop, but what happens to our side of things?
Just think, some of those opera singers and conductors might be forced
to reduce their fees, shock horror.
With CD sales in free fall and legal downloads yet to fill the gap,
the music industry has reluctantly embraced the file-sharing
technology that threatened to destroy it. Qtrax, a digital service
announced today, promises a catalogue of more than 25 million songs
that users can download to keep, free and with no limit on the
number of tracks.
The service has been endorsed by the very same record companies -
including EMI, Universal Music and Warner Music - that have chased
file-sharers through the courts in a doomed attempt to prevent
piracy. The gamble is that fans will put up with a limited amount
of advertising around the Qtrax website's jukebox in return for
authorised use of almost every song available.
Thoughts, folks?
MEANWHILE, the Arts Council has been forced to say 'er, right, maybe
that wasn't our best idea' and is promising a reprieve to some of the
groups whose funding it wanted to slash for no immediately obvious
reason - this may include the London Mozart Players. We haven't yet
seen the name City of London Sinfonia on the list, but are hoping that
that is simply an oversight on the part of newspapers that don't know
what a chamber orchestra is.
ALSO, from comments received on JDCMB recently, it's obvious that
certain people in Philadelphia are still ogling beloved Vladi. He's
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