MEBIS - music economy links

(sponsored by the AMM Music Group )

There are not too many sites on the web with realistic and reliable information about the economic aspects of music. Currently the most reliable sites (click on their names to get their - after bookmarking this page in your browser) are:

• IFPI - the international organisation of legitimate record companies with some very good statistics and current common themes and press releases
• IFPI-Germany - the german chapter of IFPI has its own site in German. Good information and press releases, but not very advisable for someone completely new to the field.
• RIAA - the US-organisation of record companies, some statistics - and some information for a new copyright protection initiative
• SDMI - the official site of the Secure Digital Music (Delivery) Initiative
• Millennium Music Investors CV - a dutch closed investment fund for investments in music
• www.digibid.com - if you are in the music biz and like auctions, you should check out this site, which has interesting auctions of pro-audio equipment .. look for my preferred mikrophones (old Neumann mikes) there
• Intertrust Technologies (rights managment and protection solutions - in my opinion the best system so far)
• Reciprocal (rights managment software solutions, Intertrust partner)
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• If you want a good laugh, have strong nerves and can stand a load of bullshit, go to mp3.com to read the ideas their owner, M. Robertson, is putting up there. In the light of his very dubios ways to make money of musicians (telling them they will become famous through his site - while they are actually only valuable to him in huge masses in the hope of attracting enough visitors to make money with advertising - and most of them hardly ever get more then ten downloads, even if they give their music away for free) his writings are more then ridiculous. Add to this the lawsuit brought against him by RIAA and others for illegally digitizing music - and you get a picture where I am wondering how long it will take until a few of his shareholders sue him for misrepresentation in his IPO brochure.

• Size of world markets
• Market share of musical styles in Germany
• Overview of publicly traded music companies
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Last Updated: 16.March 2000