New York - Fascinating keynote at the Digital Music Forum East this morning from Jim Griffin, an advisor to Warner Music Group and head of the Choruss initiative. I'm getting a text of his speech and will post. But suffice to say he delivered a smackdown to Rick Carnes and Chris Castle over their criticisms of Choruss which ran in op-ed that appeared in Content Agenda and other publications.


His best comment, though, came during the Q&A in response to a question from noted copyright scholar Bennett Lincoff. "We’ve spent over a decade with the lawyers nitpicking over what we call the transfer of money for music and I’m tired of it," he said. "What we're trying to do [with Choruss] is to make sure we don't have another decade of nitpicking because this business won't survive."

Paul Sweeting

Paul Sweeting is the Editor of Content Agenda, a business-to-business brand dedicated to the nexus of content, technology and business. This piece was originally published on Paul's blog "Media Wonk" on Content Agenda and is posted on DMW with the author's permission.