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Marla Shapiro

@ EconMusic: Billy Bragg On Social Media: ‘Everyone’s Making A Shitload Of Money Except Us’

Sep 23, 2008 4:45 PM

Billy Bragg used our EconMusic conference in London to urge the emerging wave of web services to pay artists fairly for using their songs. “Everyone’s making a shitload of money, it seems, except the content providers,” said the singer-songwriter, who has previously criticised MySpace and MTV on artists’ rights and…

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Posted In: Entertainment, Music, Events, ContentNext Events, EconMusic, angel gambino, billy bragg, danny rimer, marla shapiro, steve purdham

@ EconMusic: Paying vs. Piracy: Finding Lost Revenue; ‘All You Can Eat’ Not Convincing?

Sep 23, 2008 7:49 AM

Legal music services are going to have to give consumers a much better experience than the usual downloading a song for free, but what those services might look like is still in question. Still, the panelists in the Paying Vs. Piracy session at EconMusic are banking that enough consumers are…

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Posted In: Entertainment, Music, Legal, Regulatory, Events, ContentNext Events, EconMusic, ben drury, eric johnson, marla shapiro, thorsten schliesche

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