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Swedish Government Mulls New Anti-File Sharing Law

STOCKHOLM, Sweden — The Swedish government says it is drafting a law that will allow record and film companies to pursue Internet users sharing music and movies illegally. The proposal makes it possible for industry lawyers to seek a court order to obtain the identity of a person behind an Internet subscription in cases of suspected copyright infringement. Companies can then seek damages from the file-sharers in court. But the government says people refraining from uploading copyright-protect

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Our own Marin Alsop makes good

She is the Principal Conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra as well as its music director.  Before going to Baltimore, Ms. Alsop was Conductor of our own Colorado Symphony.  She was named the 2008 Conductor of the Year by Musical America, an industry publication. She's certainly a ground-breaker.  The only other female conductor that even comes to mind is Antonia Brico, who, incidentally, also had a Denver connection.  She retired in Denver, and lived here until her death in 1987. I'

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Awards Season: XBiz

If the suspense of knowing whether WebmasterCentral or Matrix Content will take the top prize for "Content Broker/Licensor of The Year" has left you in a pool of your own night sweat, you'll be happy to know that the wait is almost over. XBiz, one of the two leading online trade publications has announced their 2009 nominees. The event, being hosted at Boulevard 3 in Hollywood on February 12, 2009, may not have all the sex appeal of, say, the Country Music Awards - Alternative Billing Company o

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Atlanta artist featured in Rolling Stone's HOT LIST 08

Rolling Stone has named Atlanta soul songstress Janelle Monae as one of the hottest things in 2008, earning the title "Hot Sci-Fi Beyonce".    Her unique blend of musical genre's and futuristic vibe has people saying that she has staked a claim on the future of R&B music.  When asked about this Monae replies "The old way hasn't worked, look at declining record sales.  This is the perfect time to take a risk." Another Atlantan was mentioned in the Monae piece.  The producer of Janelle's al

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17 Annie Nominations for Kung Fu Panda; 8 for WALL-E

The Animation World's "Annie" Awards are coming up, and the nominations are in for the best in animated entertainment for 2008. The summer delight Kung-Fu Panda pulled in 17 nods, including best feature. Happy to see that Bolt took home nine, and WALL-E, the almost certain "best animated feature" Oscar winner from Pixar, claimed eight. The other best picture nominees? $9.99 and Waltzes with Bashir. The upcoming The Tale of Despereaux and the hits Horton Hears a Who and Madagascar Escape 2 Afr

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EQ Interview With Frankmusik

  Frankmusik (aka Vince Frank) is making quite the splash and I'm totally in love with his new single "3 Little Words" which is out now.  He's the next big name in electronic pop and his debut album is one of the most anticpatied albums of 2009.  I'm actually just as excited about it as Imogen's Heap's new album, which says a lot.  Make sure you visit Frankmusik's MySpace to sample some of the hot tunes that has the pop blogs a buzzing... Hello Vince - How are you today and where are you ans

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Jamaica appeals for looted music

In January this year, staff from at Jamaica's Public Broadcasting Corporation made a shocking discovery. One of the country's most important music collections, including original recordings by Bob Marley and Pete Tosh, had been ransacked. Thousands of vinyl records and CDs had gone. Nearly one year on not a single record has been recovered, but officials are hoping an appeal to music fans will help replace the collection built up over the years by the JBC. Created in 1961 at the end of the col

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Lil Wayne licks Grammy competition

Never mind that Coldplay’s new album is the Brit-pop band’s weakest effort yet. Or that rapper Lil Wayne is a better salesman than musician. Or that the Jonas Brothers pen power-pop like third-graders fill in Mad Libs. They are all smart, swaggering and popular, style-over-substance qualities that helped them Wednesday when nominations were announced for the 51st annual Grammy Awards. Lil Wayne led the pack with eight nominations. His 2008 album, "Tha Carter III," sold more than a million copi

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Lil Wayne, Coldplay lead Grammy nominees

Give them this: It wasn’t the same-old same-old at the nationally broadcast Grammy nominations Wednesday. New faces and fresh voices dominated, led by the bullfrog rasp of New Orleans rapper Lil Wayne, who piled up eight nominations, including album of the year. He was followed by Coldplay with seven nominations, and six each for R&B singer Ne-Yo, and rappers Jay-Z and Kayne West. Radiohead nailed five nominations, even though they initially released their 3-million-selling 2007 al

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NowPublic at Whistler Film Festival 2008

Posted by: mrjohnnyv on: December 4, 2008 In: Uncategorized Comment! NowPublic will be providing coverage of the 2008 Whistler Film Festival, held annually in the snowy foothills of alpine sport mecca Whistler, BC. The four day festival and conference will include a wide range of film screenings, filmmaker forums, and industry panels and discussions. In addition, the 2008 festival has partnered with the music micro-conference, Transmission, to bring music performances to the otherwise movie-

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Sundance Watch: Line-Up Announced

Todd McCarthy talks to Sundance Film fest director Geoff Gilmore about the Sundance 2009 competition feature, documentary and world cinema line-ups. One can only hope that given the current economic climate, last year reps the attendance peak of a fest that desperately needs to scale back anyway; if a lot of companies and folks can't make it this year, I'm going to be greedy and selfish and say, "all the more for us!" Even during the frantic party swag-hog years, it was always possible to tun

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Sundace Line-up Announced

The “old” year isn’t closed yet but we’re about to jump into a new cycle of film viewing and Sundance has announced their 2009 line-up of films, a handful of which we’ll get to see in the new year with a peppering of a few more that will likely end up on some shelf somewhere. My first thought checking out the list is that there’s nothing all that outstanding in the dramatic competitions though there are some great sounding documentaries. A few that did catch my attention: John Hindman’s Arl

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Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Annex Gala

My friend (and colleague) Ernie Garcia scored an invite to the opening gala at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Annex in Soho last night, lucky duck! Here’s his account of the event and the new spot, which I can’t wait to get out to! Last night’s opening gala at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Annex in Soho featured circus food, rockin’ hair makeovers and music stars’ paraphernalia enshrined behind glass. The party was the official launch for the Cleveland-based museum’s new outlet at 76 Mercer St.

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The Future of the Music Industry

"What will the music industry look like in five years? In a new study by Forrester Research, “U.S. Music Forecast 2008 to 2013,” industry analysts attempt to cook up some numbers. No huge surprises here: The U.S. music market is expected to shrink over the next five years from $10.2 billion to $9.8 billion. Digital music sales are expected to grow from 18 percent to 41 percent of the total (as physical product shrinks from 64 percent to 40 percent of the market). Sonal Gandhi, the lead analyst o

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SUNDANCE 2009: World Competition Docs Sport New Films from Maringouin & Murray and a Whopping 6 Titles From IDFA

The Sundance World Documentary Competition was also unveiled today (go here for the main competition) and surprisingly, 6 (nearly half) out of 16 films arrive in Park City after already screening in Amsterdam.  Among these is super buzz title BURMA VJ as well as ROUGH AUNTIES, the new film from doc vet Kim Longinotto (SISTERS IN LAW & HOLD ME TIGHT, LET ME GO), which has already been hailed by David Poland as a next-to-sure Oscar nominee in 2010.  Other IDFA titles include AFGHAN STAR, THE

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Web Hosting On-Demand SaaS Services, OpSource, Deployed by Entry.com (- InftekHosting.Com)

Santa Clara, California - (The Hosting News) - December 3, 2008 - The Entry Software firm, an integrated work management solutions provider, has selected OpSource, to support its On Demand service, and deliver enterprise-class power and the highest levels of security and standards compliance available. Entry Software CEO Barry Cousins noted, ”We previously managed our own hosting operation and realized that with our growth rate and the increasing customer demand for SaaS operational rigor an

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Trojan Horse Targets Anti-Virus Maker Intego (- InftekHosting.Com)

Trojan Horse Targets Anti-Virus Maker Intego Another wrinkle in the spy-vs-spy Mac security game appeared Wednesday when a Mac Trojan Horse attempted to disguise itself by naming a file “intego,” a reference to Intego, the anti-virus company. Intego said the OSX.RSPlug.E trojan horse carries a medium-level risk for Mac users, making it the fifth version of the malware first discovered in 2007. [...] Another wrinkle in the spy-vs-spy Mac security game appeared Wednesday when a Mac Trojan

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Microsoft’s Massive ratchets up in-game ads

NEW YORK--"Even in a down year that we're all facing, this industry's growing," said J.J. Richards, the newly appointed general manager of in-game advertising company Massive at an advertiser event Wednesday. "Versus other mediums," Richards said, "in-game advertising has unparalleled engagement." Massive, which has been owned by Microsoft since 2006, took over a below-ground nightclub in Manhattan's West Village for its first "upfront" event, modeled off of the eponymous television ad pitch

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2009 Sundance Film Festival Line-up Revealed

I am heading out the door and have no time to really dig into this, but here is the line-up for next year’s 2009 Sundance Film Festival as reported by Variety. DRAMATIC COMPETITION Adam, directed and written by Max Mayer (”Better Living”), about a slightly dysfunctional man’s attempt at a relationship with an alluring new neighbor. Stars Hugh Dancy, Rose Byrne, Peter Gallagher, Amy Irving, Frankie Faison. Amreeka, directed and written by Cherien Dabis, a drama examining the challenges faced

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Sundance Unleashes 2009 Lineup

Posted on 4:13 PM No Comments Labels: sundance 2009 SUNDANCE 2009And. Here. We. Go.No point in opening with an intro... here's the list of 64 feature films and documentaries that were lucky enough to be accepted into the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.Although, I should mention 3 films that immediately caught my attention after initially browsing the entire list: 1. Lee Daniels' adaptation of the novel titled Push by Sapphire. A friend gave me the novel to read months ago, but I couldn't get t

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