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Every time a new technology comes along that affects the music industry it changes the industry. Piper Jaffray found 72% of teens own an MP3 player, and 79% of those are iPods. (2006)

“In the future, records will be made from records” ~ John Cage (1956)

Word to the Wise: Strength is not the law. The contract might SAY one thing, but getting it enforced?  How many acts have never gotten the second half of their publishing guarantee after their record stiffed?  How many acts have been cheated out of their royalties?  You might have the RIGHT, but do you have the POWER!
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thompson

IANAL. (I am not a lawyer.) TINLA. (This is not legal advice.) ~ ECP

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Every time technology changes so does the music business.Jasper and Marian Sanfilippo's Victorian Palace, is a 44,000-square-foot mansion and private museum in Barrington Hills, Illinois. The world's largest collection of restored automatic musical instruments is on display -- phonographs, music boxes, coin-operated pianos, orchestrions, dance organs, calliopes, and more. Two of the highlights of the Victorian Palace are the gargantuan 80-rank, 8000-pipe theater organ, with chambers occupying four stories, and the Eden Palais, an exquisite European salon carousel from 1890. The player piano comes along and mechanical licenses are the new model. Radio was still a utilitarian message service during the War, but on November 2, 1920, Pittsburgh station KDKA broadcast the Harding-Cox election returns, and soon Westinghouse researcher Frank Conroad was reading newspapers and playing records over and over again from this primitive studio. New York station WEAF began selling time, and radio was on its way to big business. The record industry was directly challenged. "Almost overnight, radio sneaked into the picture and the novelty of tuning in music and static from a distance, combined with the convenience of no cranks to wind and no records to buy and change, began sending the sale of platters downward." Edison's progeny was in trouble in 1923.

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