 RAIN 11/17: Van Hook to return to Entercom ·Nov 17, 11:54 AM FOLLOWING STINT AT LIQUID COMPASS, WILL AGAIN HEAD DIGITAL FOR BROADCAST GROUPFormer Entercom exec Amy Van Hook will return to the company and her old position of director of digital operations, the company announced.
Van Hook left Entercom in 2007 for the COO position at streaming technology company Liquid Compass. Van Hook has also served as Entercom’s director of marketing services and group director of interactive marketing for Susquehanna. “Entercom has great forward movement in the digital arena, and I look forward to helping continue that advancement,” Van Hook commented. Her return date is December 9. LABELS WILL SOON BEGIN LOSING RIGHTS TO MODERN RECORDINGSProvisions in the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976… “a timebomb” as Wired columnist Eliot Van Buskirk describes it, record labels may begin losing copyrights granted to them (or be forced to into dramatically less favorable terms) for vast stores of music recorded in the 1950s through the 1980s.
Van Buskirk writes, “If an artist or author sold a copyright before 1978, they or their heirs can take it back 56 years later. If the artist or author sold the copyright during or after 1978, they can terminate that grant after 35 years… Record labels could lose sound recording copyrights they bought in 1978 starting in 2013, 1979 in 2014, and so on. For 1953-and-earlier music, grants can already be terminated.” He points to a Law.com article here indicating that representatives for artists like the Eagles, Journey and Barbra Streisand intend to inform record companies of termination of copyright grants. Read more from Wired here. “U.S.-STYLE SUBSCRIPTION SATELLITE RADIO” TO LAUNCH THROUGHOUT EUROPE Former Sirius consultant Dave Krueger runs Ondas Media, the private group (based in Spain) which plans to launch an ad-free, subscription-based 150-channel service for Europe in 2012. Monthly subscriptions will reportedly run €10-€12 a month. The company will provide devices to car manufacturers such as BMW and Nissan. They’ve also announced a deal with Britain’s Jazz FM to broadcast the station in 27 European countries.
Some are characterizing the developments as a blow to DAB (digital radio). Read more in the UK’s Telegraph online here. SAN FRAN MUSICTECH MIXER TONIGHTThe good crowd behind the SanFran MusicTech Summit gatherings are holding an informal gathering of “drinks and networking” for the Bay Area music and technology communities tonight. The mixer is 6p-9p (PST) at Roe, 651 Howard St., near Mission & 3rd. If you’re already registered for the December 7th Summit, tonight’s event is free. Otherwise, sign up to attend for $10 (plus a $1.24 fee) here. Tickets at the door, if still available, will be $20.
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