Making Money on Rock Band Network (III)

Here’s some of the latest links and information I have found for Rock Band Network.  (Unfortunately none of them has any extra information about a rags-to-riches on RBN… yet!) Harmonix’s Rock Band Network partners with Distribution, Promotion Sites (Gamasutra)  The article talks about cross-promotion between musician tools Tunecore, Nimbit, Reverb Nation, Indaba Music, and Topspin; while [...]

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Gamers Rights Blog: What exactly IS that, anyway?

I tried to lay out a definition when I started, but didn’t know exactly what was out there.  I think I can give a little more refinement to my ideas at this point.  Today’s lesson covers THE BASICS.

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Stefani vs Activision

Well,  I was going to promise not to talk about “the Big A” until next week.  But I read perhaps the best legal article on gamer’s law in six months.  You can read it here… http://copyrightlitigation.blogspot.com/2010/04/law-of-avatars-copyright-act-doesnt.html (Copyright Litigation Blog)  Read the whole thing, and then pop back in here.  I’ll wait. 

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Making money with Rock Band (Part II)

Here’s the continuation of my series on making REAL money with virtual games.  The second part on Rock Band Network. 1st caveat:  Right now it’s only for Xbox 360, though PS3 promised soon. More after the jump….

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Rock Band Network: A new kind of music law?

    Flickr photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marfis75/3867466806/sizes/o/ under Creative Commons copyright. It’s been hundreds of years since any new type of music notation has been developed.   Is the submission system of Rock Band Network (uploaded and put into the game) a new type of multimedia music notation?  Well, even if it is, it must work within the framework of the [...]

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