Thursday Morning Business Notes, Links
A fascinating article about the nebulous OCD International, marketing company World's Fair and a Dr Octogon album that only loosely meets the definition of an album. Long story short: OCD cobbled together The Return of Dr. Octagon with throwaway Kool Keith tracks and the help of three producers. The album's original producer, Fanatik J, fought the release of the album. Keith signed with OCD "without fully understanding what he was doing." (Read article at East Bay Express)
Best Buy didn't report last week's sales to SoundScan. Near-chaos ensues while statisticians rework the data. The numbers will be reprocessed tomorrow evening. (Read article at FMBQ, via Hypebot)
The Wall Street Journal reports today on a tiff about videos, the revenue stream that has been a greater focus in the last year. Universal Music Group pulled its videos from cable channel Fuse, and Warner Music Group pulled its videos from Yahoo. In the Fuse case, the argument is over the value of payments to UMG. In the Yahoo case, WMG felt the Internet company was not going enough to promote its videos.
Moses Avalon takes a long look at the MySpace user agreement. (Read article at MusicDish)
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