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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Aleks Krotoski

Tech Weekly: Digital music special

Join Aleks Krotoski and Jemima Kiss with a host of music industry professionals as they dissect the impact technology has had on the music industry. Martin Sticksel from Last.fm pulls back the curtain on the hugely successful British music recommendation service. We hear Bobbie Johnson's thoughts on how the history of the music industry is strangely reminiscent of the issues it currently faces, and professional songwriter Helienne Lindvall shares her manifesto for a digital music business in an ideal world.

In the studio, the team welcome Sony/BMG's Director of Strategy, Federico Bolza, the CEO of online gig recommendation service Songkick, Ian Hogarth, and Ben Perreau, CEO of music news resource Gigulate, to discuss copyright issues, new models, the return of the fan at the centre of the musical universe, and the technologies which have caused this shift. Put your headphones on and turn this one up to eleven, it's time for Tech Weekly.

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