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 those [...]

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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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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 copyright system [...]

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Music games as music platform?

Does this strike a chord with you?
Viacom announced that MTV Games plans later this year to launch a service that will let any musical artist upload and submit their songs for possible inclusion in its “Rock Band” music video game, Billboard reported. [...]

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