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	<title>The Music Industry Manifesto</title>
	<link>http://musicindustrymanifesto.com</link>
	<description>Telling it like it is</description>
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		<title>Stewart Mac and the Asian Music Scene</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click below for links by Jonathan MacDonald to a fantastic case study of Stewart Mac and the Asian Music Scene, courtesy of one of our mentors, Hans Ebert at the wonderful We Enhance.

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		<link>http://musicindustrymanifesto.com/stewart-mac-and-the-asian-music-scene/</link>
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		<title>Rock On &#8211; Essential Reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
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Rock On by Dan Kennedy is a brilliant book. The subtitle is &#8220;How I tried to stop caring about music and learned to love corporate rock&#8221;.
Anyone who has been inside the machine of the rotting, old-school music industry will relate to almost every word.
But you don&#8217;t need to have been inside the system to love [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://musicindustrymanifesto.com/rock-on-essential-reading/</link>
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		<title>British Entertainment Industry Launches the Save Our Sound Campaign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, 21 major organisations representing the breadth and depth of the British Entertainment Industry launched a campaign calling on the Government to act to secure the future of live music, newsgathering, musical theatre, film making, television production, sports events, concerts, conferences (including party conferences) and church, school and community events in the UK.
All of these [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://musicindustrymanifesto.com/british-entertainment-industry-launches-save-our-sound-campaign/</link>
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		<title>Dear Lily…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;When you&#8217;re stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea, you need to stop worrying about pirates and adjust your sails&#8220;.
GENIUS:
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		<link>http://musicindustrymanifesto.com/dear-lily%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<title>Cornerstone Bets on Spotify</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When new business models appear there is often speculation, especially by those who would like nothing to change.
When it comes to music industry, I have strong views on the speed of change and the realities of what that change looks like. You can read these points by choosing &#8216;The Manifesto&#8217; from the top menu.
Today, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://musicindustrymanifesto.com/cornerstone-bets-on-spotify/</link>
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		<title>Where&#8217;s the licencing agreement for physical music consumers?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great point made by Gabriel Nimeh: &#8216;I bought a CD, not a licensing agreement&#8216;. And there&#8217;s a lot more discussion going on in the comments.
The crux of it is:
&#8216;I strolled into the store, located the CD I was after, paid for it in cash and left. At no stage was I asked to sign a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://musicindustrymanifesto.com/wheres-the-licencing-agreement-for-physical-music-consumers/</link>
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		<title>Peter Mandelson Defends His Sudden Conversion To Kicking People Off The Internet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may recall a few weeks back that stories in the UK noted that (non-elected) UK Business Secretary Peter Mandelson had a sudden conversion to caring about copyright issues after dining with David Geffen while on vacation. And, despite months of careful study that went into the Digital Britain report, where it was declared that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://musicindustrymanifesto.com/peter-mandelson-defends-his-sudden-conversion-to-kicking-people-off-the-internet/</link>
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		<title>Artists Find Backers as Labels Wane</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great find by AJS from the NY Times &#8211; click here for the piece.
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		<link>http://musicindustrymanifesto.com/artists-find-backers-as-labels-wane/</link>
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		<title>Music 2.0 by Gerd Leonhard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Worth 10 minutes of your time:
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		<link>http://musicindustrymanifesto.com/music-20-by-gerd-leonhard/</link>
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		<title>RIAA Fears Thomas Keeps On File Sharing, Despite $2 Million Verdict</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
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So&#8230;in the ever more pointless quest for the litigation of individual citizens whilst ignoring an epidemic, the RIAA attorney correctly points out that fining an individual may not be &#8216;enough&#8217;.
If you look up &#8216;missing the point&#8217; in a dictionary, this story surely has pride of place.
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		<link>http://musicindustrymanifesto.com/riaa-fears-thomas-keeps-on-file-sharing-despite-2-million-verdict/</link>
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