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Merlin's Impressive Numbers

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2008-06-11 08:31:07 by Bruce Houghton in hypebot
...Merlin's mission, collective bargaining, is the best hope that indie labels have to get their fair share of revenues generated from music 2.0 services like Last.FM, MySpace and YouTube. Now that Merlin has critical mass lets hope that deals follow...soon. Todays Merlin press release shares some impressive stats PRESS RELEASE Merlin, the...
 
Tags: music, source music, independent music sector, music market, music licenses, music rights, rights, global rights body, rights representatives
 
 
 
 
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Indies See Hope In Merlin's Power

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2008-05-05 06:44:50 by Bruce Houghton in hypebot
...Merlin appears to be on track to become the global rights body of choice for independent labels and distributors. In its first month accepting general membership, more than 12,000 labels have joined giving it control of the most significant bundle of music rights outside the four majors label groups Many of Merlin's members come via major...
 
Tags: merlin, music, music services, independent labels, labels, music rights, merlin appears, indies, labels include concord
 
 
 
 
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Merlin Questions Last.fm Royalty Program

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2008-07-09 18:00:31 by Bruce Houghton in hypebot
...Merlin has issued a bulletin to its 12K members regarding Last.fms new Artist Royalty Program . The organization is also considering legal action . Highlights of the bulletin The Program...does n ot appear to offer any compensation for any past illegal use of repertoire . It is unclear to us whether or not the terms and conditions of the...
 
Tags: program, merlin, rights, artist royalty program, music rights, significant rights negotiations, negotiations, licence terms, merlin membership
 
 
 
 
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Update: Merlin vs. Last.fm

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2008-07-10 08:26:18 by Bruce Houghton in hypebot
...Merlin issued a strong warning to its 12k members questioning it Based on a statement by Merlin's CEO to PaidContent Hyepbot also reported that they were contemplating legal action. Asked if they had sought legal advice, Merlin's Charles Caldas said, "...wed do whatever we feel is necessary to ensure that our members rights are properly...
 
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Merlin Cries Foul: No MySpace Equity = No Deal

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2008-09-25 02:09:22 by Bruce Houghton in hypebot
...Merlin, whose members make up 9% of the US digital music market (equivalent to EMI) is still in negotiations with the social networker's new music destination. The hold up is not payments, but rather getting an equity share as the four major labels have It is incredibly disappointing that MySpace will launch their new service without having...
 
Tags: myspace, myspace ceo, myspace music, deal, merlin, whilst merlin continues, independent deal struck, independent labels, competitors
 
 
 
 
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A2IM Joins Merlin's Call For Indie MySpace Equity

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2008-09-26 04:25:12 by Bruce Houghton in hypebot
...Merlin in calling on MySpace Music to offer independent labels a equity stake similar to that given to the four major label groups A2IM is disappointed that MySpace Music, previously a champion of independent music, has not included independent music labels as equity participants as they have done with the major labels, thus not giving...
 
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Myspace Responds To Merlin's Accusations

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2008-09-25 15:06:37 by Bruce Houghton in hypebot
...Merlin has been hitting MySpace hard in the last 24 hours with allegations that they have been unable to make a deal on behalf of their indie label members with Myspace Music which launched today. I asked MySpace for reaction We have offered a relationship with Merlin that provides equal opportunities to Merlins labels and Merlins artists...
 
Tags: myspace, artists, major artists, merlins artists, indie artists, myspace music, labels, myspace hard, merlin
 
 
 
 
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Dj Merlin Presents The MySpace Soul Collection

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2008-04-15 09:00:24 by Merlin in Blind I Is For The Kids
...merlin , michal moore , myspace , soul , soul mix , Zshatwa
 
Tags: myspace, soul, collection, music, soul music, soul mix, lil collection, tracks, couple tracks
 
 
 
 
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KAYAK - Merlin (1981)

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2008-05-29 07:42:49 by Editor in Progarchives.com (Progressive rock and related latest reviews)
...Merlin - Bard of the Unseen (2003) record. It contains all the songs of side one and more songs to complete the story. The DVD is also very nice by kingfriso KAYAK Music Online recommended progarchives.com worldwide prog rock stores GEMM , Vinyl Records & CDs Rare Albums (Out of Print and Imports AMAZON , find cheap, used and new stuff with...
 
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Wednesday's Briefing: EMI, T-Pain, Merlin & More

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2008-06-11 02:00:00 by Bruce Houghton in hypebot