Sebastian Scotney, a former investment analyst, writes about jazz. He has been a musician and has been a professor at the Royal College of Music (see http://londonjazz.blogspot.com).
A recent survey carried out by market intelligence group CGA highlights the popularity and economic success of pubs and bars that host music, compared to those that don’t.
The Competition Commission (CC) has decided to clear the proposed merger of ticketing giant Ticketmaster and promoter and venue operator Live Nation in the UK.
Terra Firma are suing their financial advisors and backers Citigroup, claiming the bank failed to provide them with vital information in relation to their 2007 EMI purchase.
The Wall Street journal reports that America's third largest radio group may apply for "pre-arranged" Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection before the end of the year. Citadel Broadcasting owns over 200 radio stations across the US, and are third behind Clear Channel and Cumulus Media in the American radio sector.
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The UK's Sunday night finale for the X-factor dragged in 20 million viewers, but winner Joe McElderry has a fight on his hands for the Christmas No 1 - with a Facebook group promoting Rage Against The Machine's 1992 single In The Name Of as an antidote to McElderry's 'Climb' now having 725,000 signed up.
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The Boston Globe has an interesting editorial on file sharing this week (see the link below) and whilst not coming out in support of illegal file sharing, it exposes the nonsense within US law that saw convicted infringer Joel Tenenbaum, a student, owing $675,000 in statutory damages to the record labels - for the exceedingly widespread act of sharing electronic files of copyrighted songs adding that
Ouch! the four bosses of Canada’s major record labels are facing a lawsuit totalling an estimated $6 billion in a claim over the unauthorised use of recordings by the guru of jazz Chet Baker and others.
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