Ideas, notes, and various jottings
The Universal Music Group is set to take on MySpace and You Tube over copyright, alleging that the sites are allowing users to post copyrighted material.
“We believe these new businesses are copyright infringers and owe us tens of millions of dollars,” Universal CEO Doug Morris was quoted as saying.
“How we deal with these companies will be revealed shortly,” he said.
Hacking MySpace has been available in book stores in the US for the last couple of weeks, but I only received my author’s copies yesterday.
While I’ve written a number of books over the years, I still get a buzz when I first see the finished product. I think the publisher, Wiley, has done a great job on the cover design and layout.
In many ways MySpace’s move into selling music was an obvious move, since it’s a site that has a huge following of both music makers and music lovers.
Until now MySpace has been a marketing tool for music makers, allowing music lovers to sample music from a range of mainstream and independent acts. It’s not a huge conceptual leap for MySpace to actually sell the music.