Prof Snyder's Music Biz News Ep 12

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DNA the Future of DATA Storage

• An Entire Book Was Written in DNA—and You Can Buy It for $60.
• DNA has been modified to make it store data 350 times faster
• DNA Inspiration to AI Data Storage

Papering The House

• The Fine Art of ‘Papering the House’ :
• Free Tickets Sometimes Offered
• When Performer Can’t Fill the Venue
• The Lefsetz Letter

Bundling Reduces Stream Royalties

• Few U.S. Spotify Subscribers Have Opted Out of Higher-Priced Music-Audiobook Bundle, Survey Finds
• Spotify reveals €94m ‘bundle’ impact on US mechanical royalties
• Courtney Love does the math The controversial singer takes on record label profits, Napster and "sucka VCs."
• Spotify Stands to Gain at Least Half-a-Billion a Year From Its Latest Price Increases In the U.S. Alone. Music Publishers Won’t Be Seeing Much of That.
• Determination of Royalty Rates and Terms for Making and Distributing Phonorecords (Phonorecords IV)
• Bundle or Bungle in the [Streaming] Jungle: The Fight Over Mechanical Royalties
• The Lefsetz Letter

Jonesy's Cat-Shit Crazy Pick: Bob Dylan saved Ti-Tok

• TikTok says it will go dark on Jan. 19 unless given 'definitive' assurances
• TIKTOK IS ABOUT TO BE BANNED, SO BOB DYLAN JOINED THE APP TO SEE WHAT THE FUSS IS ABOUT
• Bob Dylan joins TikTok — just in time for TikTok to be banned

• No Dylan but loads of Coldplay! What

  the songs with a billion streams on

  Spotify tell us about music taste

  today