Sentences with phrase «than the music business»

Science is much kinder than the music business in this regard.

I do hope that book publishers are quicker to catch onto this sea change than the music business was.

Not exact matches

The Mannix brothers share many things with their father (Fred Charles Mannix) and grandfather (Fred Stephen Mannix), whose empires they inherited: their names, obviously, but also their sharp business acumen, quiet - but - aggressive approaches to philanthropy (Calgary's brand new National Music Centre — which houses Canada's Music Hall of Fame — came to being thanks to more than $ 10 million in donations from the Mannix family business; the company also contributed $ 1 million to the National Gallery of Canada in 2015) and steadfast commitment to privacy.

Examining modern campaign politics, the open - source movement and some of the few recent bright spots in the traditional music business, Benkler isolates a handful of «design levers» — «elements of successful cooperative human systems that we can employ to motivate [people]... to contribute to the collective effort rather than exclusively pursue their own interests (at the expense of those of the group).»

Speaking from my limited experience, the book business is more illogical and messed up than the music industry ever was, and we all know what happened to them.

Fast - forward a few decades, and the likes of Microsoft's Xbox 360, the Sony PS3 and Nintendo's Wii have put consoles in one of every two homes in the U.S. and helped make video games a bigger business than the entire music industry — and almost as big as the movie industry.

There's no question that the music business is doing better than it has for some time, as streaming continues to grow as a revenue source.

I spent the first 13 years of my professional life doing what was more akin to art than to business: commissioning, writing, directing, producing radio, television, films, and music.

One: books about how the financial crash happened and why (Making it Happen, The Alchemists, The Unwinding, The Billionaire's Apprentice, After the Music Stopped) and two: books about the business and culture of technology (The Everything Store, Smarter Than You Think, as well as Hatching Twitter, by Nick Bilton and Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution, by Fred Vogelstein.)

While the Bronfman family dramas have been wellcovered in other books and in the Canadian press — this magazine is among the book's sources — Goodman understands the music business better than any of the family's other chroniclers.

Tencent Music's offering could value the business at more than $ 25 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The business of my morals are better than yours is a tribal reaction similar to my societies art / music / food / architecture / etc.

The surprising revelation was that, according to one official estimate, the nation's pornographers do more than four billion dollars worth of business a year — more than the combined incomes of the often supportive movie and music industries!»

In keeping true with his larger - than - life reputation, he promises to make just as loud of a bang in the restaurant business as he has done with his music.

By securing a BMI music license, you not only have legal access to nearly 13 million songs from more than 800,000 unique songwriters for one annual fee, you have the important ability to choose how and when to play these songs in your business.

«Who wants to tell the 80 % of music businesses that employ fewer than five people, and the thousands of artists who self - finance the production of their own albums, that to enjoy the protection of the law, all they need now is to have millions of pounds and spend years in court to protect their work?»

England About Blog This is the blog of Mark Mulligan a media and technology analyst of more than 15 years» standing and one of the leading voices in music industry analysis.On this blog you will find opinion and insight on the music industry's often painful journey towards creating a new business around music.

Often times music students are eager to jump on a board for a gig, and they'll come in at a much more affordable rate than musicians who have been in business for a while.

Gershon is the only reason to watch the film, her performance courageous mainly in that it's an actress playing her age in a business that's actually more ruthless about aging than the music industry.

Levinson always picks the perfect composer for each film he scores rather than rigidly sticking with the same one, and the roster of composers with whom he has worked is a virtual who's who of the film music business - Alex North, Bruce Broughton, John Williams, Randy Newman, Ennio Morricone, Hans Zimmer, Christopher Young, and others.

Setting his sights on the music industry, Palmer enters a precarious business that has more than just temperamental musicians: Russian mobsters, rival producers and hit men are out to bring him down.

While the girls hit the road with Jimmy, Curtis sells off his car business and uses less - than - ethical means to get the group's music played on mainstream radio stations.

Friends become foes and vice versa in a world that seems to be more deplorable than the streets they grew up on; they quickly find out the music business is Ruthless.

Jon Goldwater: I've been with Archie for almost two years, and previous to Archie, I was in the music business for more than 20 years.

In the vanity press business, there are a few honorable exceptions to the belief that it's fraught with peril; for far too many authors, though, the experience mirrors that of the authors who filed more than 800 complaints against Tate Publishing and Music.

Baker & Taylor has been in business for over 200 years and is a leading distributor of books, videos, and music products to more than 36,000 libraries, institutions, and retailers in over 120 countries.

The publishing and music businesses have much in common, think about how many US musicians do better overseas than at home in the US.

At the same shareholder event Barnes and Noble also announced they were getting into the business of selling vinyl records, as the format is generating more revenue than YouTube Music, VEVO, SoundCloud, and Free Spotify combined.

I was more than a passive consumer in this process: Apple's mandate that they would sell recorded music at 99 cents for a single was one of the signposts on the highway that lead to the closing of the business that employed me for 22 years.

This means we have a bunch of sites trying to be iTunes, the provider of titles and the interface for reading, rather than a lot of standards - based titles competing for the reader's attention, which is analogous to the MP3 - based music market that has shattered the music business.

He declared that «the book business is changing more radically now, and quicker, than movies or music or newspapers have, because we're doing it in a matter of months.»

The largest physical retail bookseller in Canada, Indigo Books & Music, has made some massive changes to its store locations and its current business models, changes that have more than a few publishers anxious to see how it will impact their business.

That mobile phone was more of a consumer product than a business phone, with its friendly rounded edges and 32 GB of memory for music and video.

But Amazon's lead in the fight against music DRM was a business decision rather than an ideological stance.

It would seem that male writers were more often than not tasked with selecting books for the «serious» sections — such as economics, business, politics, history, music, sport and science — whereas women writers were almost exclusively in charge of food and gardening, with the additions of style, fiction, poetry and photography.

Prior to that David was at EMI Music, where he delivered insight to all parts of the business in more than 25 countries, helping to shift the organisation's decision - making at all levels from artist signing to product development and brand development plans for EMI's biggest artists including The Beatles and Pink Floyd.

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More often than not, the Internet is cast as the great enemy of traditional culture, an entity often condemned for undermining the music business, the film industry and even publishing.

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He has worked on the margins of the art world, the music business, and the literary scene for more than thirty years.

Growing up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, he has been exposed to more of Metallica's music than anyone should, from basements to strip mall parking lots, train tracks and small businesses, all with an unintentional sense of ennui.

Cyberattacks into the computer networks of some of America's most successful businesses threaten the security of their trade secrets and other intellectual property and in many parts of the world pirated versions of software, films and music are more common than legitimate ones.

«By propping up the CD business, rather than fully investing in online distribution alternatives, the major labels and the larger music industry have neither succeeded in stamping out piracy nor done much to recreate the business models of the old «record business»,» said Gartner's Mike McGuire.

For proof, look no further than the way that Apple Inc. has revolutionized enormous industries — such as the music business, the notebook computing space and the entire mobile communications category — with a series of sleek, elegant and well - designed products that are among the most expensive in their... Read More»

Some of our notable entertainment and media attorneys are: John Quinn, General Counsel of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who has also represented entertainment and media clients in a number of high profile cases; Kathleen Sullivan, the former Dean of Stanford Law School, First Amendment scholar, and nationally renowned appellate advocate, who heads the firm's appellate practice group; Bob Raskopf, an expert in the sports, entertainment and media bars in New York, who is perhaps best known for his work on behalf of professional sports leagues and teams, newspapers and publishers; Claude Stern, who has represented a broad array of leading software developers, videogame manufacturers, online publishers and other media clients in all forms of intellectual property litigation, including copyright, patent, trade secret, trademark, and licensing disputes; Bruce Van Dalsem, who has tried and resolved disputes for studios, producers and performing artists in the film, television, music and finance businesses, securing a top five verdict in California based on the misappropriation of a film library; Gary Gans, an expert litigator in motion picture financing, production and distribution disputes, as well as copyright and idea theft cases, who has been named in 2012 by The Hollywood Reporter as one of America's «Top Entertainment Attorneys;» Jeff McFarland, who has litigated entertainment related cases for more than 20 years, including cases involving motion picture and television series profits, video game licenses, idea theft and the «seven year rule;» and Michael Williams, who represents a satellite exhibitor and other media clients in trademark, copyright, patent, antitrust and other commercial litigation.

«Apple is growing faster than Spotify and has a different business model whereby music does not have to be profitable on a standalone basis,» Tinker wrote and predicted $ 130 per share price for the stock this year.

The music business has always been driven by convenience of consumption, and it's difficult to imagine how much easier it can get than joining the free tier -LSB-...]

In addition, Spotify may see a chance to move into product categories with higher margins than its current music business.

Should the music streaming service finally go public after a decade in the business, it would likely be the subject of the second largest tech IPO in 2018, surpassed only by Xiaomi that's said to be seeking a valuation of no less than $ 50 billion and may also opt for the NYSE, though it's presently understood to be much closer to filing for an IPO with the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong.

Amazon also claims the new skills published span more than 20 categories including Music & Audio, Interactive Games, Education, Health, Business and Lifestyle listing popular skills in each category.