With monopoly power over ticketing, Ticketmaster is able to control the events, the venues, even the artists. There’s a movement pushing the Justice Department to take on their monopoly. @Doctorow breaks it down.

ICMP Director General John Phelan updates on our work worldwide to "optimise the business and legal environment for music", with a special focus on digital & streaming. #ICMP #MusicMinds #Paris 🌏🎶

Nature is starting to publish review exchanges for all research articles from November 2022 onward. Referees will still have the option to remain anonymous. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Open collaboration with the Slovak Ministry of Culture, the ICP Institute for Cultural Policies - Via Cultura, and various statistical, creative industry, and music stakeholders to try out the Open Policy Analysis Framework #Slovakia #openpolicy #opendata music.dataobservatory.eu/post/2022-10-1…

On 28 November, we are doing an online launch of an anthology of responses to the #ParadoxofOpen. Our guest speakers will be James Boyle James Boyle @thepublicdomain on all sites and Anna Mazgal Anna Mazgal - both are contributors to the anthology. More info: openfuture.eu/event/open-fut…

If you want to understand what's been going on in the world of #BrokenRecord & #FixStreaming for the past year, you might want to tune in to watch these sessions in parliament with @CommonsDCMS. I'm up at 11am.

⚡FRIDAY FIGURES – 11 NOV⚡ When working towards gender parity, we must look at the whole ecosystem of the music industry. Cue the early stages of an artist’s industry journey of management, agents & A&R. Read more from USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative keychange.eu/about-us/news-…

From the Lambeth Choirbook!

The Digital Music Observatory aims to create and exploit transparent #musicdata for the benefit of artists, #MusicMovesEurope policies, research, and small music enterprises. Follow dataandlyrics for less nerdy topics about the intersection of data and music. x.com/dataandlyrics/…

Is anyone coming to Linecheck Official #MMW22 Milano and wants to meet up with us to talk about harmonizing surveying on #genderequality, and our calculating total value chain greenhouse gas use in music businesses? Our agenda 👇🏻👇🏿 👇🏼 👇🏾 👇🏽#OpenData #OpenESG reprex.nl/event/2022-11-…

And a separate kind of thing, the Fedifinder tool which extracts fediverse handles of your Twitter followings and enables you to follow them/import on Mastodon works super well, big thanks to Luca. fedifinder.glitch.me

The Digital Music Observatory aims to create and exploit transparent #musicdata for the benefit of artists, #MusicMovesEurope policies, research, and small music enterprises. Follow dataandlyrics for less nerdy topics about the intersection of data and music. x.com/dataandlyrics/…

We won The Hague Innovators Audience Award on #ImpactFest with Reprex + Digital Music Observatory @CultureDataObs Green Deal Data Observatory + Competition Data Observatory + dataandlyrics thank you—bedankt—köszönöm—dėkoju—hvala—dziękuję—gràcies—ďakujem—gracias—děkuji—teşekkür—danke—благодар—tack ImpactCity

The Digital Music Observatory aims to create and exploit transparent #musicdata for the benefit of artists, #MusicMovesEurope policies, research, and small music enterprises. Follow dataandlyrics for less nerdy topics about the intersection of data and music. x.com/dataandlyrics/…

We won The Hague Innovators Audience Award on #ImpactFest with Reprex + Digital Music Observatory @CultureDataObs Green Deal Data Observatory + Competition Data Observatory + dataandlyrics thank you—bedankt—köszönöm—dėkoju—hvala—dziękuję—gràcies—ďakujem—gracias—děkuji—teşekkür—danke—благодар—tack ImpactCity

The Digital Music Observatory aims to create and exploit transparent #musicdata for the benefit of artists, #MusicMovesEurope policies, research, and small music enterprises. Follow dataandlyrics for less nerdy topics about the intersection of data and music. x.com/dataandlyrics/…

We won The Hague Innovators Audience Award on #ImpactFest with Reprex + Digital Music Observatory @CultureDataObs Green Deal Data Observatory + Competition Data Observatory + dataandlyrics thank you—bedankt—köszönöm—dėkoju—hvala—dziękuję—gràcies—ďakujem—gracias—děkuji—teşekkür—danke—благодар—tack ImpactCity

WAIVE: From the Archive to the Dancefloor. Smart DJ system that uses samples and loops from ethnomusicological archives. #waive #thunderboom #openarchives #trustworthyAI dataandlyrics.com/post/2022-11-2…

Seeking partners to connect archive/collection inventories automatically to actively rights-managed music repertoires via #Wikidata into a self-correcting metadata system, improving and ensuring that machines find the correct information about your songs reprex.nl/post/2023-03-2…