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Opening remarks
The 25th edition
of the Canadian
Music Week Conference kicked off
with a visionary look at the future.
As CMW co-chair Shane
Bourbonnais, president, Live Nation,
noted that the massive earth-shattering
transformations that are currently
impacting the music industry as
well represented over the next
48 hours of expert panels and
debate by key industry movers
and shakers, he also suggested
that there wasn't a better forum
to see them than at the world-renown
CMW.
In congratulating
Neill Dixon and the CMW staff,
Bourbonnais introduced John Boynton,
chief marketing officer and senior
vice-president of ,
CMW sponsor who articulated his
company's support and involvement
in the music business, reiterating
that ROGERS is a major player.
Boynton
underlined that through several
initiatives including creating
the music portal like Redpipe,
offering -- and being staunch
supporters -- of legal downloads,
and offering an obligation to
the artists through new initiatives
like the Polaris Music Awards
or reaching out to students in
high schools, he says, "the
music industry is booming"
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Keynote:
The Future Of Music...Without
Fear
By Nick
Krewen
"Welcome to the flat world."
Terry McBride, the visionary
founder and CEO of Vancouver's
Nettwerk Productions, as well
as creator of the Nettwerk Music
Group, advocated three
key ideas in his wide-ranging
speech:
1) Eliminate fear.
2) The need to rid digital rights
management of locks that stop
music from being moved around
from platform to platform.
3) Collapse copyrights, so that
one aspect of copyright (i,e
record sales) may promote another
aspect (i,.e. publishing). MORE...
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Tastemakers
Recommendation
Engines: Highly Recommended
Lest anyone
feels that Internet-based-and-driven
recommendation engines like
Real Networks and Rhapsody,
Last.fm and MusicIP aren't important
to the future of music, how
about a hearty endorsement from
the legendary Sandy Pearlman,
Clash and Blue Oyster Cult producer.
"I believe this could be
the salvation of the music business."
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State
of the Industry: Cutting Through
The Digital Rights Fog
By Nick
Krewen
The number of platforms available
to provide connections through
music to consumers is growing,
but there's a considerable obstacle,
suggests Peter Jamieson, Chairman,
The British Phonographic Industry
Limited, London.
"The fact that the industry
is not providing any of this
for the consumer in a united
way is the problem," he
asserts.
Jamieson, Canadian Recording
Industry Association (CRIA)
president Graham Henderson,
RIAA Chairman and CEO Mitch
Bainwol and Stephen Peach, CEO,
Australian Recording Industry
Association (ARIA), as well
as moderator Ted Cohen, managing
partner, TAG Strategic, wrestled
with some digital rights challenges
and solutions over the next
hour.
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Citizen
Marketers
Consumer
Power: Wielding Their Hammer
By Nick
Krewen
Call it the 1% Solution.
Ben McConnell, author of Consumer
Evangelists, notes that
corporations had better be wary
of the power that consumers
now hold, predominantly because
they have the opportunity to
expresses themselves on the
global forum known as the Internet.
During his presentation, McConnell
noted that if consumers aren't
happy with a product or a service,
they will let the whole world
know about it...
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The
Music Mobile Industry: Saviour
Or Hype?
by Nick
Krewen
Will the mobile phone industry
save the music business, or
is it just a bunch of hype?
Consider some of these figures:
In 2006, 2.6 million people
have handsets. In the U.K. and
Italy, the penetration of the
market is 108% and 117% respectively.
Ringtones are the most popular
digital music format and in
2006, 96% of the digital music
revenue in Japan came from the
mobile phone.
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JAC
HOLZMAN: 57 YEARS AS A PIONEERING
SPIRIT
By Nick
Krewen
As the founder of Elektra Records
in 1950, Jac Holzman has signed
a lot of amazing and influential
recording acts: The Doors, Iggy
and The Stooges, Harry Chapin,
Queen, Carly Simon, the list
goes on.
Over 50 years later, Holzman
is still engaging in pioneering
activity - creating the digital
music label Cordless Recordings
and releasing, rather than singles
or albums, three-song "clusters."
The key to his longevity: Passion.
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