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1 week to go till midem in Cannes!

Ever since Carlo moved to Austin, the debate has been raging within WIP as to which one of Midem or SXSW was the digital music event to be... Since my youth I had been hearing about Midem as the yearly gathering of the music industry, so you'll have to excuse a bit of partiality especially as WIP was contacted by the organizers to bring a bit of wipjam spirit to the event. 

And here started the hunt for discussion leaders! The story of which I'll cut short by just announcing the 2 London based music start-up entrepreneurs, Chris Moisan from Musicity and Greg LLoyd from Mixlr who will be help provide steering, expertise infusion, geekery, and Providing steering and their good looks. So here are the 2 sessions, in the usual WIP participative style:

Using Mobile Technologies to best Promote your Music

Sunday 23 January 2011, 3:30 PM

Speakers : Chris Moisan, Product Director, Musicity; Thibaut Rouffineau WIP

Finding it hard to stand...

On the way back from Berlin's Mlove and  a very heated discussions with @SoulBizNus Rocky and Balls and others on the impact of mobile on the future of music.  I was approached in June  recently approached by Midem to collaborate around their upcoming event I though . In case you didn't know about midem it is probably the largest music industry event. 

The rare occurence was an obvious sign telling me I had to blog about music and technology and capture some of the points discussed in both occasions.

It's true the music industry is often seen by the software world as slow and resistant to change ... Especially when it comes to DRM.

But frankly the tech industry too has its DRMs ... API rather than data access (Programmable web vs  RDF website), license servers, government regulations on net neutrality / Intellectual property / citizen protection, anti-virus software, government incentives to semicos / creative industries /research, Flash vs html5, iOS vs Flash, OS X vs OS Y...