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Evolution of Music

"Warner Even Paid $28 Million For The Rights To 'Happy Birthday'.."

The Tanning of America

Due to the Release of Steve Stoute's book "The Tanning of America", Steve Stoute *Entrepreneur, Advertising Executive, former Record Executive & Artist Manager* gave a couple of interviews that I find very interesting and important to today's pop cuture. Interviews captured by theLifeFiles and Power105.1

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The Tanning of America is available here.

"We Bought a Zoo" Trailer | starring Matt Damon

2011 Maybach 57 S Edition 125

 

Engine - M275 AMG 60º V12

Power - 462.3 kw / 620 bhp @ 4800 rpm
Specific Output – 103.68 bhp per liter
Torque -  1000 nm / 737.6 ft lbs @ 2000 rpm
Redline – 6050

Setting a Good Example

50 Cent launches his newest campaign 'SK (Street King)' to feed one billion starving people in Africa. Let's all work together and help to successfully achieve this goal!

Rihanna for Armani

Monica ft. Rick Ross - "Anything (To Find You)"

Entourage: The End

Elegance

Lamborghini Gallardo 570-4 Super Trofeo Stradale

Just in Case

Maison Martin Margiela Leather Laptop Case

Nakahouse / XTEN Architecture

Architect: XTEN Architecture 

Location: Los Angeles, California, USA 

Project Team: Monika Haefelfinger, Principal; Austin Kelly, AIA, LEED AP, Principal; Monika Haefelfinger, Austin Kelly, Scott Utterstrom, Jae Rodriguez, Qichen Cao, Karin Nelson, Joseph Tran, Karin Von Wyl 

General Contractor: NWGC, INC. 

Structural Engineer: Axial Engineering Group 

Geotech: CY Geotech 

Project Year: 2011 

Project Area: 2700 sqf 

 

Remembering & Never Forgetting

9/11.

 

Drake - Club Paradise by AyersRocMusic

Astonish

"Shine Like Dilla/Trees" Music Video.

“The Astonishingly ODD Project” will be released in October on Molemen Records; and will be a free downloadable LP.

Gucci.. The Making Of

Conceived by fashion curator Maria Luisa Frisa and W magazine editor-in-chief Stefano Tonchi, and edited by Frida Giannini, Creative Director of Gucci, Gucci: The Making Of (Rizzoli) is tome looking at the past and present moments of one of the world’s most iconic luxury brands. Coinciding with the opening of the Gucci Museum in Florence, Italy this fall, the book will feature never-before-seen photographs, archival imagery, and essays about Gucci and the inspiration behind its designs, campaigns and brand ethos.

Gucci: The Making Of will be released on October 4, 2011 and retail for $85.00.

Politics as Usual:

How The ’70s Majorly Screwed The Major Labels

Lava lamps, Happy Days, mood rings, MASH, and Jimmy Carter’s Playboy interview weren’t the only things to come out of the ’70s. In addition, copyright law was revised by the U.S. government granting artists and songwriters “termination rights.” This law states that 35 years after 1978 the recordings and songs “owned” by record labels or publishers would revert back to the artist or songwriter regardless of if the artist or songwriter was recouped, un-recouped, etc.  In other words, the government said to the labels and publishers,“ 35 years is long enough. Times up, give them back control over their work.”

For those of you counting, 35 years from 1978 is 2013.

This means albums and songs from Cheap Trick, The Kinks, AC/DC, Kraftwerk, Carole King, Peter Gabriel, The Cars, The Buzzcocks, KC & the Sunshine Band, Kenny Rogers, David Bowie, Black Sabbath, Tom Waits, Yes, Sex Pistols, Boston, Ramones, Bryan Ferry, Heart, Uriah Heap, Neil Young, Aerosmith, Brian Eno, Hawkwind, Whitesnake, Queen, Kate Bush, and countless others are eligible to revert back to the artists.   Which means that the record labels, in addition to losing control over distribution (think TuneCore) may now lose the rights to the only thing left keeping them alive, the recordings that they make money off of. And each year that goes by, means another set of albums and songs becoming eligible to revert back to the artist.

As you can imagine, the labels are fighting it.   According to the August 15th, 2011 New York Times article, “Record Industry Braces for Artists’ Battles Over Song Rights,” Steven Marks, general counsel for the Recording Industry Association of America stated, “We believe the termination right doesn’t apply to most sound recordings.”   The RIAA’s position is  that the artist never owned the recordings or songs in the first place so how could they revert back to them.  They were just employees hired by the label to record their own songs. Therefore, the labels own the recordings forever (or until they enter public domain). The issue here is over the legal definition of the term “Work For Hire”.  If the artists were legally “work for hire” employees, the labels would be right.   The RIAA and the labels saw this issue coming.  In 1999, to assure their position and not lose rights, they were sneaky little scumbags and literally attempted to quietly slip a midnight amendment into a bill going through Congress called “The Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act”.   The bill was about “retransmissions of broadcast signals” (I kid you not).  The RIAA had four words added to this bill that would take away the right for artists to own their recordings if they signed a major label deal.  These four words would, by default, legally define the artists as “work for hires” and therefore the rights to the recordings could not revert back to them. To quote the very comprehensive and well written August of 2000, Austin Chronicle article “Work For Hire,” (which you should read!)…

In 1999, “Turns out the amendment was added by a staffer named Mitch Glazer from the office of Subcommittee Chairperson Howard Coble, R.-N.C., Glazer now works for the RIAA, the organization that sought to have those four words included in the first place, and did so with alarming quiet.”

Fortunately, they were caught.  The words were noticed and artists, and their lawyers, went to war. The result was that these four little words are no longer part of the bill.  Which means that the courts have yet to rule if the labels are right or if the artists are right in regards to the reversion of rights.

So, we approach 2013, and both labels, artists, and entrepreneurs are frantically attempting to either hold on to, get back, or acquire rights.  Clearly, the labels are not going to go quiet into that dark night, however, this is yet another crack in the firmament of the traditional label system, and ultimately a win for the artists.  Of course, the artists, now more than ever, will need to be able to market and distribute their newly-acquired/re-acquired rights, so that they can enjoy sustainable artistic careers on their own terms.  The labels will argue that the artists can’t do this; only the labels could possibly market and distribute their records.  That argument gets a little more tenuous with each passing day.

Stay tuned for the mother of legal battles.  It’s going to get very interesting as manager and former label head and owner Irving Azoff sides with the interest of his client, The Eagles, and takes on the very industry he helped create.

article via TC

The 2011 New Establishment List

This year’s New Establishment list identifies the top 50 of an innovative new breed of buccaneering visionaries, engineering prodigies, and entrepreneurs.

1.    Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook
2.    Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Google
3.    Jeff Bezos, Amazon
4.    Tim Cook and Jonathan Ive, Apple
5.    Jack Dorsey, Square, Twitter
6.    Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz
7.    Reed Hastings, Netflix
8.    John Lasseter, Pixar, Walt Disney Animation Studios
9.    Lady Gaga, singer
10.  Dan Doctoroff, Bloomberg L.P.
11.  Dick Costolo, Twitter
12.  Mark Pincus, Zynga
13.  Jim Breyer, Accel Partners
14.  Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, and Graham King, Movies
15.  Michael Moritz, Sequoia Capital
16.  J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter
17.  Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park
18.  Reid Hoffman, Greylock Partners, LinkedIn
19.  Herb Allen III, Allen & Co.
20.  Judd Apatow, Apatow Productions
21.  Jay-Z, Roc Nation
22.  Todd Phillips, Green Hat Films
23.  Yuri Milner, DST Global
24.  J. J. Abrams, writer, director, producer
25.  Robin Li, Baidu
26.  Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook
27.  Andrew Mason, Groupon
28.  Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, television
29.  Mark Wahlberg and Stephen Levinson, Leverage
30.  Angela Ahrendts and Christopher Bailey, Burberry
31.  Elon Musk, Tesla Motors, Space X
32.  Natalie Massenet, Net-a-Porter Group
33.  Paul Graham, Y Combinator
34.  Sean Parker, entrepreneur
35.  Fred Wilson, Union Square Ventures, Flatiron Partners
36.  Peter Thiel, Founders Fund, Clarium Capital Management
37.  Peter Jackson, Wingnut Films
38.  Ryan Kavanaugh, Relativity Media
39.  Mike Allen, Politico
40.  Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, All Things D
41.  John Hennessy, Stanford University
42.  Jeremy Stoppelman, Yelp
43.  Ashton Kutcher, actor, investor
44.  Tyler Perry, director, producer, writer, actor
45.  Dennis Crowley, Foursquare
46.  Kevin Ryan, Gilt Groupe
47.  Daniel Ek, Spotify
48.  Henry Blodget, Business Insider
49.  Mikael Hed, Niklas Hed, and Peter Vesterbacka, Rovio
50.  Justin Timberlake, singer, actor

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Jay Sean ft. Lupe Fiasco - "Say Yeah"

Download Jay Sean's Mixtape "The Mistress" here

Entourage: Season 8 ep.7

Final Episode of the Final Season will air this upcoming Sunday, 9/11.