Issues of online piracy and the likely impact / attitude of ISPs were bubbling under today at MidemNet, but for me today's conference was all about the data.The wha'? The data, generated by everything music fans do online – listening to music, browsing artist websites or social network profiles, buying songs, chatting about music on blogs or Twitter… There's a mass of data points around how fans interact with music online (or on mobiles), which is ripe for analysis.The big questions are a.) who's going to do that analysis, b.) how it can be best acted upon to make money for the artists and industry, and c.) who's going to own that data – and by extension the direct relationship with fans that generates much of it. I think there's a conflict brewing between labels and managers on that latter point.Other key points from today (or takeaways – Web 2.0 lingo is truly de rigeur at MidemNet this year): some of the big set-piece sessions didn't quite come off. Michael Robertson versus Eric Nicoli in person would have been more entertaining than Michael tuning in via Kyte (although what an advert that was for Kyte's potential).Meanwhile, Nokia's Tero Ojanpera and [...]
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