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AUG
2012
Posts for Streaming
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JUL
2012
Entertainment industry and the digital era, an interview with Wouter Rutten
Today, FutureOfCopyright.com publishes an interview Wouter Rutten, Director of Communications of NVPI, the trade association of the Dutch entertainment industry. NVPI serves the interests of music companies, publishers of audiovisual content on digital media and online publishers of games and other interactive software. We asked Mr. Rutten about some recent developments in the entertainment...17
JUL
2012
Online music sales booming in Sweden
In Sweden, the home country of Spotify, streaming music is booming. Revenues from digital streaming grew by 79.4% in the first half of 2012. Revenues from digital downloads decreased by 14% and physical sales by 2.2%. Overall, music sales increased by 30.1% in Sweden. That's good news for the music industry. However, these figures do not apply to all countries yet. Globally, revenues...09
JUL
2012
Study reveils obstacles to legal distribution of digital entertainment content
Last Friday, the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation presented a research report ‘Digitale drempels’ (‘Digital Thresholds’) from SEO about the factors that may hinder the supply of and demand for digitally distributed music, audiovisual content, games and books in the Netherlands. The study shows that the four sectors differ substantially in terms of digital...29
JUN
2012