Songwriters in the New Millennium

Songwriters in the New Millennium is a report series based on an online survey conducted this past spring of songwriters on their perceptions of the organizations and activities that have traditionally supported them. The reports feature contributions by leading members of the community who have dedicated their careers to working with songwriters and the craft.

Changing Expectations & Realities
The authors of the report discuss songwriters' engagement with, perceptions and expectations of the music industry and the implications for organizations serving songwriters and the community.

Charting a Career Path
The authors of the report use the survey to identify what songwriters are and are not doing to further their career and discuss important points that songwriters should consider when mapping out their career.

Diebold Studies

Mastering Mobile Media Markets - Strategies for the Mobile Media Business
This report not only offers an orientation aid to mobile markets for media firms, it also presents concrete approaches for successful positioning in this innovative environment. Advanced business models and sources of income in the mobile environment are fully explained, indicating which content & strategies types are suitable for mobile offerings.

Wanted: A Survival Plan for the Music Industry - Napster and the consequences
This 80-page white paper by Diebold, a leading German management and technology consultancy, provides an analysis of the current Internet strategies of the five largest record labels and their online rivals, is directed towards Managing Directors and Marketing, A&R, IT and Internet Managers of record labels, along with the top management of the publishing, TV, radio and film industries.
Free downloadable Powerpoint overview of the white paper available.

Tag It e-Reports

An Incentive-Based Approach to a P2P Marketplace (110 K)
Presented during Paris Net 2001 "L'Internet de demain: Quel rˇseau, pour quoi faire?", Mars 28 2001
In order to establish a viable marketplace, peer-to-peer systems will need to provide content owner with tools to develop relationships with and empower these new economic actors to create and expand the market, much as Blockbuster & HBO had done for film. The paper will propose the use of a self-selection multi-level licensing system that offers DNs with a menu of contracts defining pricing, terms, conditions & incentives/rewards for the use and redistribution of content.

P2P & The Digital Marketplace (60 K)
Keynote presentation to the Semi-Annual ACSEL Conference, organized by the Economic & Commercial Affairs Bureau of the French Embassy. ACSEL (Association pour le Commerce et les Services en Ligne) gathers over 200 companies and organizations in the French multimedia and e-commerce industry.

Loss of Innocence: Story of the MP3.com Rebellion (630 K)
From Michael Robertson's initial MusicDish appearance in 1998, to the launch of and lawsuit around My.MP3.com, to the unveiling of the MSP (Music Service Provider) model, the report provides a broad and in-depth view of the evolution of this extraordinary company as it changed all the rules.

The Digital Economy: How Digital Goods are Reshaping the Rules of Commerce (120 K)
As peer-to-peer has brought disintermediation to a new level, copyright holders ability to control the distribution of intellectual property and create a viable marketplace is being threatened. While litigation and DRM have been the industry's focus, developing models that incite desired behavior from consumers will be necessary to create a viable digital marketplace.
Published in COMMUNICATIONS & STRATEGIES' special issue "From the Net to the New Economy: Critical and Prospective Views" and presented at IDATE Foundation seminar on November 15 in Montpellier, France.

Story of a Revolution: Napster & the Music Industry (1000 K)
Since the lawsuit was filed against Napster by the RIAA on December 7th, MusicDish has taken an extensive look at the issues raised by this case, from the legal to the philosophical. Joyce Dollinger and Eric de Fontenay provide us with a detailed legal perspective of both sides. Ram Samudrala continues his groundbreaking views on music in "The RIAA s. Free Music." David Weekly dovetails into the technology behind file swapping and where it will lead in "Client As Server: The New Model."

SDMI: Boom or Bust for the Music Industry (60 K)
This Special Edition includes analysis of the SDMI initiative in general as well as the more specific Portable Devices Specification. The analysis will provide a background to the debate by examining the impetus for the creation of SDMI, the different players stake in the process and marketplace while providing a non-technical overview of the actual Specification, its impact on different segments of the industry and potential for widespread industry adoption.

MP3: Digital Music for the Millennium? (1900 K)
As mp3 has developed into a potential mass-market distribution format for music media, it has raised a flurry of questions and issues revolving around the technologies' legal, economic and strategic implications for every segment of the industry including artists and musicians, labels, retailers and manufacturers to name a few. Tag It through its MusicDish Industry Survey Series conducted a survey in collaboration with MP3.com to attempt to address several of those issues and questions.