Innovating Entertainment - the weblog of John Pisciotta

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"Some people see every problem as a opportunity, other people see every opportunity as a problem"

Once upon a time there was this disruptive technology called radio...

And BMI and ASCAP were created to process performance royalties around the new innovation/medium. A more recent example is Sound Exchange in the non-terrestrial streaming space. 

The 'either - or' view, either we have an understanding of copyright, or we have an open web, is a zero sum thinking, and a false dichotomy. If we listen to the marketplace here, the marketplace IS speaking loudly. Entrepreneurs and innovators should be feeding on the opportunity in front of us. 

This is what our team at MusicSynk gets out of bed everyday, focused on. 

MusicSynk is a next generation sync licensing accelerator platform, focused on copyright Integrity, user transparency, and innovative feature sets for copyright owners and music supervisors. MusicSynk is a convergence of a dozen fractured processes, and organizes them into a noise-free work flow management space. You can find out more here.  http://musicsynk.com/

There are many problems/opportunities here, let's pick one and get to work on it. 

This is so good. Mark Burnett Choose Your Companions Before Your Road, People either give energy or suck energy. 

This morning we debated the Stop Online Piracy Act. Our parent company, NBCUniversal, supports SOPA -- and we had NBCUniversal Executive Vice President Richard Cotton on to make the case for it. Opposing the bill was Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit.com. As you'll see at the top of the first segment, Chris had his own take on it as well. Also there for the discussion were former Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) and former lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

John Ingram has business in his blood.

In 1946, his grandfather, Orrin Henry Ingram, founded Ingram Barge Company, the beginnings of the business empire of Nashville-based Ingram Industries. As business conditions changed and opportunities presented themselves, the Ingram family – Orrin Henry until his death in 1963 and then his sons Frederic Ingram and Erskine Bronson Ingram – nimbly managed and grew the business, making acquisitions, adopting new technologies and expanding into new areas, including content distribution.

Ingram Book Group was founded in 1964 and since then the name Ingram has been associated with content distribution. Today, the Ingram Content Group stands where the book group once stood, spanning eleven companies that do everything from printing and shipping large print runs to processing and distributing digital content to print on demand.

"Music education and families are dealing with the economic times, and I wanted to help them," said the guitarist.

Eddie Van Halen has donated 75 electric guitars from his personal collection to music programs at public schools in and around Los Angeles.

We wonder, “Why can’t the film industry innovate like Silicon Valley?”

Lessons Learned

• Studios are run by financial managers who lack the skills to exploit disruptive innovation
• Studio anti-piracy/copyright lawyers trump their technologists

2 Upcoming SOPA  Events:

Innovation Nashville Tonight 6:00pm until 9:00pm

Could the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), Break the Internet?

https://www.facebook.com/events/214034805338757/

NEXT Tuesday: The Copyright Forum at Belmont University

A lively and balanced discussion of pending legislation to Stop Online Piracy

January 10, 2012 10:00a.m. @ Ocean Way Studios

http://members.nashvillesongwriters.com/mod/emarket/read/639/1007234/