Next on Permanent Damage is P Dub & The M Vibrator with their 'Take Time EP': http://ping.fm/uDgNE
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Monday, August 23, 2010
EPM is proud to announce the digital distribution of Alan Oldham/DJ T-1000's Pure Sonik imprint:
http://ping.fm/Dtn4n
Digital album sales up with 51% in Germany
Sales of digital albums grew 51% in both unit terms and value terms in first half of 2010 compared to the same period in 2009.
These details come from German music association BVMI and show that 4.7m digital albums were sold in the first six months of this year compared to 3.1m in the first six months of last year.
Billboard reports that these sales generated €41.5m (£34.1m) compared to €27.5m (£22.6m) a year earlier.
Sales of single track downloads were 29.7m (up from 22.9m) and generated €30.4m (£24.9m).
Sales of digital albums grew 51% in both unit terms and value terms in first half of 2010 compared to the same period in 2009.
These details come from German music association BVMI and show that 4.7m digital albums were sold in the first six months of this year compared to 3.1m in the first six months of last year.
Billboard reports that these sales generated €41.5m (£34.1m) compared to €27.5m (£22.6m) a year earlier.
Sales of single track downloads were 29.7m (up from 22.9m) and generated €30.4m (£24.9m).
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
GEMA VS YOUTUBE
As you may have noticed or heard, YouTube is currently blocking a selection of videos on YouTube Germany. This is because negotiations between the German collecting society GEMA and YouTube have broken down.
The official explanation of YouTube is as follows: " Our policy has always been to only monetize music in territories where we have collecting society deals. Therefore, we show no ads in these
countries (red.: Germany) or even block videos."
YouTube’s contracts with several European collecting societies expired over a year ago, and most have renegotiated with the Google-owned site. For example, Great Britain’s PRS for Music agreed upon a rate of £0.00085 per streamed track.
GEMA, however, is proposing a significantly heftier collection rate of € 0.1278 (£0.11) for every song up to five minutes, and more for longer tracks and those with ads. Up till now the German collecting society has refused to budge on its requirements for a new deal with YouTube. GEMA wants YouTube to account for YouTube’s revenue growth by demanding shares of advertising revenue.
The videos being blocked by Youtube in Germany are randomly selected by GEMA. It does not matter if the copyright owner of the blocked video is a member of GEMA or any other collecting society.
The negotiations between Belgium collecting society SACEM and YouTube also fell through, but SACEM has not requested YouTube to remove any videos from YouTube Belgium (yet).
Stay tuned for more news...
As you may have noticed or heard, YouTube is currently blocking a selection of videos on YouTube Germany. This is because negotiations between the German collecting society GEMA and YouTube have broken down.
The official explanation of YouTube is as follows: " Our policy has always been to only monetize music in territories where we have collecting society deals. Therefore, we show no ads in these
countries (red.: Germany) or even block videos."
YouTube’s contracts with several European collecting societies expired over a year ago, and most have renegotiated with the Google-owned site. For example, Great Britain’s PRS for Music agreed upon a rate of £0.00085 per streamed track.
GEMA, however, is proposing a significantly heftier collection rate of € 0.1278 (£0.11) for every song up to five minutes, and more for longer tracks and those with ads. Up till now the German collecting society has refused to budge on its requirements for a new deal with YouTube. GEMA wants YouTube to account for YouTube’s revenue growth by demanding shares of advertising revenue.
The videos being blocked by Youtube in Germany are randomly selected by GEMA. It does not matter if the copyright owner of the blocked video is a member of GEMA or any other collecting society.
The negotiations between Belgium collecting society SACEM and YouTube also fell through, but SACEM has not requested YouTube to remove any videos from YouTube Belgium (yet).
Stay tuned for more news...
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
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