ilamont/music

From the page: "A British composer was told to go bankrupt yesterday after he unsuccessfully tried to sue the London Evening Standard for libel. Keith Burstein ran up legal costs of £67,000 defending a test-case libel action against Associated Newspapers, publishers of the Standard, over a critical review of one of his operas."

From the page: "It's called radio, and more recently, music videos. In both cases, record labels basically paid to promote album sales â€" either through payola, in the case of radio, or through seven-figure film budgets, in the case of music videos. The content itself was given away for free. Thankfully, digital tools make recording and mastering that much cheaper as well. The only change in thinking (and artist contracts) required is to see the recordings themselves as a loss leader for stuff you actually can sell, like tickets and T-shirts, fan club memberships and licensing rights."

From the page: "Many of the musicians were brought out of retirement during a legendary recording session in March 1997 produced in Havana by U.S. guitarist Ry Cooder, though the idea was the brainchild of world music label owner Nick Gold of Britain."