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European Union Court Says Public Wi-Fi Operators Not Liable for Piracy

Shop, hotel or bar owners who provide free public Wi-Fi access cannot be held liable for users who commit online piracy, according to a preliminary ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union….


Jazz Fest Producer Quint Davis on Surviving Katrina, the ‘Economics of Creativity’ and Making an Eclectic Lineup Work

“I’ll stand up the craziness of my office against anybody’s,” says Davis, photographed March 7 at Festival Productions in New Orleans. “It’s kind of like a scrapbook — I’ve always been good at bringing stuff back from tours. My chair is a Ganayon king’s throne, given to me in a ceremony, and you can play…


5 Tips For Working With Logic Pro X’s Flex Pitch

So you can want to correct some pitch problems on vocals or an instrument and you’re using Logic Pro X? Enter Flex Pitch. Joe Albano shares 5 excellent tips of getting the most out of Flex Pitch….


Before You Shoot a Music Video, Read This Important Legal Guide

Steve Gordon is an entertainment attorney specializing in music, television, film and video, and the author of The Future of the Music Business (Hal Leonard 4th ed. 2015). Although MTV does not play music videos anymore, the format has become more important than ever in breaking new artists.  But before making your own video, though, it’s…


Terrace Martin Takes Us Inside the Making of Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Untitled Unmastered’ & ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’

Kendrick Lamar‘s untitled unmastered project, which dropped late last week, is rather unusual in the fast-paced, novelty-centric world of hip-hop. A collection of cuts from the vault, supposedly brought to fans by the public pleas of LeBron James, left in their mostly unvarnished form — more of an archive than an album….


Bandcamp Has Paid Artists $150M in 8 Years

  As of Wednesday (April 6), Bandcamp had helped pay artists more than $150 million since it was founded in 2008. Of which, it reported $4.3 million in the last 30 days alone….


EQ or Compression – What Comes First?

If you use a chain of multiple processes on an instrument, you might wonder what should come first, the EQ or compression. Equalisation is primarily about changing signal levels, albeit in carefully specified frequency regions, so pre‑compression EQ can alter the gain‑reduction action of the compressor, but post‑compression EQ won’t….


Guest Post: Why Getting Paid In The Music Industry Is So Complicated, And How It Can Be Better

In Recording Academy CEO Neil Portnow’s recent op-ed called The Penny Paradox, he asked, “Isn’t a song worth more than a penny?” The problem, as outlined by Portnow, is that artists aren’t being paid enough for their work. However, this is a gross oversimplification of a more complicated issue of payment in the music industry. An issue…


Virtual Reality Is Not Ready for Prime Time, But…

Facebook, Google, Samsung and many others are vying to be leaders in the next wave of entertainment….


100 Things Every Musician Should Know

1. The difference between a recording and a composition….