Comments on: myspace and the major labels http://www.pampelmoose.com/mspeaks/2008/04/myspace-and-the-major-labels music . media . web. culture Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:23:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Dave Allen http://www.pampelmoose.com/mspeaks/2008/04/myspace-and-the-major-labels#comment-64799 Dave Allen Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:31:08 +0000 http://www.pampelmoose.com/mspeaks/?p=1413#comment-64799 @Justin, In the story from Wired it seems that MySpace has to settle a $100 million lawsuit before they become partners with the labels. And it appears that they have to license the music rights from their "partners" in this deal... @Justin,
In the story from Wired it seems that MySpace has to settle a $100 million lawsuit before they become partners with the labels. And it appears that they have to license the music rights from their “partners” in this deal…

]]> By: Justin http://www.pampelmoose.com/mspeaks/2008/04/myspace-and-the-major-labels#comment-64793 Justin Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:55:13 +0000 http://www.pampelmoose.com/mspeaks/?p=1413#comment-64793 Could it be that this is simply a case of staking a claim on myspace's territory? Perhaps the majors couldn't stand the thought of a major music publicity sight being outside their sphere of influence? Another way to look\question this is to ask who initiated this deal? Dave, you say that myspace\Newscorp stands to actually LOSE some money in this deal, but EMI was lagging behind in accepting the deal? Honestly, this whole thing just confuses me. Could it be that this is simply a case of staking a claim on myspace’s territory? Perhaps the majors couldn’t stand the thought of a major music publicity sight being outside their sphere of influence?

Another way to look\question this is to ask who initiated this deal? Dave, you say that myspace\Newscorp stands to actually LOSE some money in this deal, but EMI was lagging behind in accepting the deal? Honestly, this whole thing just confuses me.

]]> By: gws http://www.pampelmoose.com/mspeaks/2008/04/myspace-and-the-major-labels#comment-64645 gws Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:58:39 +0000 http://www.pampelmoose.com/mspeaks/?p=1413#comment-64645 what does a site for helping high schoolers explore their sexuality have to do with music what does a site for helping high schoolers explore their sexuality have to do with music

]]> By: bryanv http://www.pampelmoose.com/mspeaks/2008/04/myspace-and-the-major-labels#comment-64640 bryanv Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:06:15 +0000 http://www.pampelmoose.com/mspeaks/?p=1413#comment-64640 I just blacked out thinking about that myspace deal...oh man, I cant see that working at all. I wonder how artists feel when they are subject to buyout, get themselves set up with a small company that has their best interests in mind and then that company gets swooped up for a couple of million by some large company while the artist is still under contract for another few years. Hmmm... I just blacked out thinking about that myspace deal…oh man, I cant see that working at all. I wonder how artists feel when they are subject to buyout, get themselves set up with a small company that has their best interests in mind and then that company gets swooped up for a couple of million by some large company while the artist is still under contract for another few years. Hmmm…

]]> By: J Kent http://www.pampelmoose.com/mspeaks/2008/04/myspace-and-the-major-labels#comment-64639 J Kent Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:01:02 +0000 http://www.pampelmoose.com/mspeaks/?p=1413#comment-64639 how'd I miss that... wow, sounds pretty similar to the Perez Hilton thing w/ Sony, why would you go after MySpace, they've probably done more for publicity with Universal Artists than the best PR firm Universal could hope to hire. how’d I miss that… wow, sounds pretty similar to the Perez Hilton thing w/ Sony, why would you go after MySpace, they’ve probably done more for publicity with Universal Artists than the best PR firm Universal could hope to hire.

]]> By: Dave Allen http://www.pampelmoose.com/mspeaks/2008/04/myspace-and-the-major-labels#comment-64636 Dave Allen Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:29:19 +0000 http://www.pampelmoose.com/mspeaks/?p=1413#comment-64636 Justin, I'm not sure that MySpace is benefiting from a cash infusion here..first they have to pay Universal $100 mil to settle a suit and then it seems that they have to pay to license the music from the very firms that are partnering with them in this venture.... Justin,

I’m not sure that MySpace is benefiting from a cash infusion here..first they have to pay Universal $100 mil to settle a suit and then it seems that they have to pay to license the music from the very firms that are partnering with them in this venture….

]]> By: J Kent http://www.pampelmoose.com/mspeaks/2008/04/myspace-and-the-major-labels#comment-64634 J Kent Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:22:05 +0000 http://www.pampelmoose.com/mspeaks/?p=1413#comment-64634 I'd agree w/ the notion that there isn't much room for more download sites. I think we're in like the dot-com age of music, it took a while for people to catch on but now we have several major players who can be leveraged by the majors to help them escape the corner they painted themselves into (even just Amazon joining the game helped immensely here). I think it's only a matter of time until a lot of these smaller sites with hot ideas get bought up or wiped out by the big players and it ends up being you choose one of maybe 3 sites to buy your music from and everything else is just a portal to it. It will be interesting to see how this MySpace Music thing plays out, I think it's a dumb move by the majors but a brilliant move by MySpace... if they want to throw money at you, let them, MySpace has a legitimate marketing stronghold that the majors can't seem to figure out for themselves. Time will tell... I’d agree w/ the notion that there isn’t much room for more download sites. I think we’re in like the dot-com age of music, it took a while for people to catch on but now we have several major players who can be leveraged by the majors to help them escape the corner they painted themselves into (even just Amazon joining the game helped immensely here). I think it’s only a matter of time until a lot of these smaller sites with hot ideas get bought up or wiped out by the big players and it ends up being you choose one of maybe 3 sites to buy your music from and everything else is just a portal to it.

It will be interesting to see how this MySpace Music thing plays out, I think it’s a dumb move by the majors but a brilliant move by MySpace… if they want to throw money at you, let them, MySpace has a legitimate marketing stronghold that the majors can’t seem to figure out for themselves.

Time will tell…

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