Jim Griffin

Warner Music Hires Jim Griffin to Explore ISP Music Bundle

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 28, 2008 - 9:08am.

New York - Major label Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) this week hired Jim Griffin, former head of digital at Geffen and a vocal industry critic, to oversee a plan that would have consumers pay a monthly fee through their Internet service providers for unlimited access to music, Portfolio.com reported. "We're still clinging to the vine of music as a product," Griffin told Portfolio.com, dubbing the state of affairs "Tarzan" economics. "But we're swinging toward the vine of music as a service. We need to get ready to let go and grab the next vine, which is a pool of money and a fair way to split it up, rather than controlling the quantity and destiny of sound recordings."

DMC2006: Panel 2 – Music Matters

Authored by todd_beals on June 23, 2006 - 5:56am.

[Notes from the 2006 Digital Media Conference]
DMC2006: Music Matters Panel

Aydin Caginalp: The Industry Perspective - The sale of music downloads (online/mobile) has doubled in the last year and has helped to offset the 7% drop in physical CD sales. Most iPods contain files which are 66% ripped from CD’s and most are only half-filled. The empowerment of the internet is the empowerment of the artist.