{"id":2166,"date":"2011-01-04T14:30:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T18:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/?p=2166"},"modified":"2011-01-05T13:19:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T17:19:49","slug":"jim-lucchese-on-application-developers-and-the-future-of-music-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/2011\/01\/04\/jim-lucchese-on-application-developers-and-the-future-of-music-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Lucchese on Application Developers and the Future of Music [AUDIO]"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a few short years, app developers have already changed music’s role in our lives with new solutions for music discovery and recommendation, blog and news aggregators, music games, location-based listening, interactive remix apps, social music sharing, and countless other new music experiences.<\/p>\n

However, most music application developers are locked out of the commercial music industry, unable to navigate the licensing maze, or to hire one of a few very well-connected deal makers necessary to launch a licensed service comprised of the same popular music available to larger players.<\/p>\n

Jim Lucchese \u2014 CEO of Echo Nest and a former music lawyer \u2014 discusses the specific needs and vast potential of the growing music app development community, citing examples of new and innovative music applications, illuminating the licensing challenges holding back innovation in music, and offering a new way forward: the use of open developer APIs to forge a stronger digital music industry.<\/p>\n

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…or download the OGG audio format!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a few short years, app developers have already changed music’s role in our lives with new solutions for music discovery and recommendation, blog and news aggregators, music games, location-based listening, interactive remix apps, social music sharing, and countless other new music experiences. However, most music application developers are locked out of the commercial music […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[956,695],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-berkman-luncheon-series"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2166"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2173,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions\/2173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}