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SomaFM is road tripping to South by Southwest this year. Well, at least Rusty and Merin are. Elise is going to fly in a little later. But on the way there, we're going to spread the word about SomaFM along historic Route 66 and the southern US. And tell you about it in the process.

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Great panel on music licensing

I’m in the “Is Collective Licensing for P2P File Sharing a Future Source of Income for the Music Industry?” panel at SXSW. It’s a great panel - huge amounts of intelligent debate and opinions - I’m loving it. Sandy Pearlman, a professor at McGill University, is great; Jim Griffin (who runs the Pho list and is a digital media consultant to Warner and other large labels). Rick Carnes from the Songwriters Guild of America has a lot of really valid points he’s making about the rights of creators while also balancing the rights of fans and ‘consumers of music’.

There are also a lot of industry heavyweights in the audience, including John Simson from SoundExchange, Jay Rosenthal from NMPA, and Ken Freundlic, founder of Royalty Logic (a group that is trying to compete with SoundExchange), and more.

I’ll post some audio bits from it later on my Rusty on Radio blog a little later; it’s incredible educational and really drives the point down about how complex digital copyright issues are; and how many diverging issues there are.