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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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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Monday miscellaneous

A couple of very important links that don’t fill up enough for a complete post.
Viewing Virtual Property Law Through the Lens of Innovation:  cite as “Vacca, Ryan G., Viewing Virtual Property Ownership Through the Lens of Innovation. Tennessee Law Review, Vol. 76, p. 33, 2008. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1100302”
Other less authoritative, but still noteworthy posts [...]

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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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Rock Band Network launches

According to an article on the WSJ.com, today is the day.
Well-done piece on the technical and financial aspects of uploading your own band’s tracks to be sold on the Rock Band Network. 30 cents is not as good a deal per dollar as Itunes, (50 cents?), but then [...]

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