Courtney Holt, an MTV executive, will be named as president of MySpace Music, possibly as early as Monday, according to a source close to the company.
MySpace Music is the digital music service formed by News Corp. and the four largest recording companies. Some observers say that MySpace, with a well-established history of offering music, could emerge as a competitor to Apple's iTunes.
Sure, you can find most of that ancient medium known as the “music video” on YouTube, but having all those great videos from the 80’s, 90’s and early ’00’s in a neat searchable place is handy.
BTW, here’s a vid for “New York New York” from my favorite singer/songwriter Ryan Adams that was shot just a few days before 9/11. I was living just an hour or so away from the city in Connecticut at the time, so the video had a big impact on me (and still does):
MTV's HIV and AIDS campaign Staying Alive today revealed that Lapeno, Fat Ed and Mervin are the latest in a long line of celebrities to be associated with its work to mark the campaign's tenth anniversary. A series of specially-created shorts have been commissioned by Staying Alive and Spinvox from the creators of Fur TV
-- Chris Waitt and Henry Trotter -- and will premiere during the live
broadcast of the 2008 MTV Europe Music Awards. The Awards is broadcast on
Thursday 6th November 2008 from the Liverpool Echo Arena, Liverpool --
MTV’s Harmonix games studio and The Beatles’ Apple Corps label have confirmed they will develop “a music-making” video game that allows gamers to play some of the band’s songs from its U.K. back-catalog.
The title has no scheduled release date but will be ready by Christmas of next year, the pair told reporters on a conference call. Digital downloads of Beatles’ songs is another matter -- Apple Corps said it is still working on that and has nothing yet to announce.
Partnership adds technology that can insert ads into pirated MTV videos appearing on MySpace
While online video has proved to be one of the most popular Web 2.0 applications, the sites that show them are constantly battling to fend off copyright infringement notices from broadcast and media companies that own much of the video content posted by users.
Since YouTube heralded the era of user-uploaded videos, media corporations have been fighting a hopeless battle to regain control of their content, sending out endless waves of DMCA notices in a vain attempt to take down countless clips scattered across the web. In the last year sites like Hulu have made progress - it’s finally possible to legally embed of a clip of The Office in your blog, but publishers continue to lose out on millions of video clips that weren’t upload with permission.
Reader Matthew Muro writes in to let us know of a rather insane bit of news. MTV's new video hosting site is apparently bleeping out the names of file sharing sites in Weird Al Yankovic's famous 2006 song "Don't Download This Song." The opening verse to the song goes as follows:
Viacom’s MTV Networks as well as Apple Corps, a company formed by The Beatles in 1968, will unveil a global music “project” on Thursday, the two companies announced today.
No specific details were given, but the nature and type of announcement hints to a global music store the two companies may have in the works. For MTV it would be the third major initiative to gain some traction in the digital music market after a failed cooperation with Microsoft as well as the Rhapsody America joint venture with Real Networks and Verizon, which also never evolved into a serious business for MTV.
Yesterday MTV launched MTVmusic.com, its first serious iteration of a full-fledged music-video site. It’s been a long time coming. For years, former MTV fans have complained about modern MTV’s glaring lack of music videos. This new venture falls under the same strategy that we discussed in our November issue, in which MTV is throwing a lot of ideas at the Web wall and keeping whatever sticks.
Our two music kudos gurus are split over who'll win best female video at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night. David "Guru" Schnelwar ranks Mariah Carey in top place. Darrin "DoubleD" Dortch ranks Mariah Carey last, opting instead of Rihanna as likely champ. David has Rihanna in second place.
