A2IM: American Association of Independent Music

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Spotify A2IM NYC Meetup
Date: Wednesday, January 11
Time: 7:00-8:30pm EST
Other: food will be served
RSVP to Jennifer Masset

A2IM members are invited to take part in an insightful session addressing how Spotify is helping to grow the music business.

Spotify staff will discuss a number of subjects surrounding the service with the goal of helping labels and artists make informed decisions about their business. Information shared over the course of the evening will properly position the service in the current music landscape and demonstrate why Spotify is a valuable partner.

Spotify staff will be on hand to answer your questions and concerns. We welcome your participation.

You MUST RSVP to Jennifer Masset to attend.

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Myspace has announced the release of its new Myspace Music Player, which empowers people to access the world’s largest catalog of music online. The new player is the first to provide free unlimited on-demand listening, lean-back personalized radio mode, improved search functionality, as well as instant sync capabilities that allows people to share the music they’ve listened to on Myspace with their friends on Facebook. (more…)

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One of the issues that confronts SoundExchange is that the services that report to and pay SoundExchange royalties sometimes enters the wrong repertoire owner’s name. That is why A2IM tells our members to review their statements (excel versions are available upon request).  When repertoire errors do occur, the music label with the rights to a track needs to make a claim with SoundExchange to get the ownership label designation correction.  For those labels that have made ownership claim change requests, or for which some of their tracks may have BEEN CLAIMED BY OTHERS, you would have received an email in your inbox (see example

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If you are a voting member of the Recording Academy, the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) encourages you to vote Independent for the 54th Annual Grammy Awards and to urge other members, labels and artists to do so as well.You can find the complete list of A2IM Member Nominations here.

By voting Independent, we are supporting labels and artists that are on the leading edge of creativity and advancement in music. Join us in supporting this vital part of the music label industry and vote Independent.

Your influence is important…MAKE YOUR VOTE COUNT!  In this final round, voting members may vote in up to 20 Categories in the genre Fields plus the four Categories of the General Field. So voting in the categories and fields where Independents are nominated can really make a difference.

Please forward this message to your colleagues and friends who are Recording Academy voting members.

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Slacker Canadian Music Week (CMW) to Celebrate 30 years of Music History March 21-25

As Canada’s largest and most influential media and music conference – combining conferences, award shows, a trade exposition, international marketplace, film festival, comedy festival and Canada’’s biggest new music festival, Slacker Canadian Music Fest (more…)

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A2IM’s Licensing & Publishing Committee and AIMP will present the next Licensing Day on Wednesday, February 15, 2012 from 4PM – 8PM at the Jolly Hotel (22 E. 38th Street @ Madison Ave, NYC, map). Three panels will run from 4PM – 7PM and then all attendees are invited to the Whaler Bar within the Jolly Hotel for Happy Hour Specials from 7PM – 8PM.

You can view the list of A2IM & AIMP members and panelists who have RSVP’d HERE.

PANELS:

#1: Merchandising (presented by AIMP) – Merchandisers discuss the process for clearing and incorporating copyrights in products for sale. Moderated by Mary Beth Roberts of High Standards Unlimited. Panelists include Elizabeth Dambriunas, Esq., Keith D’Arcy of Universal Music Publishing, Lauren Whitehead of Jakks Pacific, and Keith Zurcher of Viacom Media/Nickelodeon.

#2: TV/Film – Music supervisors discuss their process, timelines, budgets and other licensing options needed to maximize impact for music licensed. Moderated by Danielle Boone of ABKCO Music & Records. Panelists include Michael Hill (Bored to Death, Nurse Jackie), Sue Jacobs of SuperVision (Our Idiot Brother), Joe Rudge (Blue Valentine), & Jennifer Towle (Focus Features).

#3: Brands & Bands – Agency and brand staff compare perspectives on finding the music and artist that best fits their objectives and how budgets can be best allocated to maximize impact for artist and brand. Panelists include Mike Ladman of McCann Erickson, Ricki Askin of Vice/VBS/Virtue, and Lauren King of Mother.

Happy Hour Specials in Whaler Bar for our networking reception downstairs within the hotel (available until 9PM) include $3.50 for ANY beer, $6 wine, and $6 top shelf mixed drinks.

PLEASE NOTE: This event is ONLY open to members of A2IM & AIMP.

Big thanks to SynchTank and Tunesat for their support on and sponsorship of this event!

RSVP HERE to be added to the list. Space is limited.