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Music 2.0 Coverage:

San Francisco Chronicle

Online music on center stage

More than two years after vanquishing the original Napster, record industry and technology company executives are optimistic that licensed online music services are finally on the right track in giving consumers a convincing reason to stop file sharing.
"Online music is finally getting in tune with consumers," said Sean Ryan, Real Networks Inc. online music division chief, during his opening keynote Monday for Music 2.0, the Digital Music Summit. "2004 will be a breakthrough year.''

Dec. 9, 2003

Toronto Globe & Mail

Recording executives see brighter outlook

"More players are coming into the marketplace," said David Ring, vice-president of business development at Universal Music Group. "But we still have kinks to work out. We don't have all the artists there, and usually, almost in every case, it's an artist issue, not a record label issue or a publisher issue."

Dec. 9, 2003

Hollywood Reporter

Music Execs Hopeful

Keynote presentations by RealNetworks vp music services Sean Ryan and Apple's Peter Lowe, director of marketing iTunes, and many panelists from numerous other professionals in the industry all shared the opinion that 2004 was going to be the year online music became a successful business and a cultural force to be reckoned with.
The general consensus was that online piracy was slowly but surely being tackled by a combination of the carrot -- services that were better than free because of quality and context -- and the stick of RIAA lawsuits.

Dec. 10, 2003

AP Newswires

Music industry expects big online sales in 2004

Taking a mostly positive outlook on an industry wracked by a three-year slide in CD sales, executives for recording companies and Internet music retailers told hundreds at the Music 2.0 conference in Universal City that online music sales should take off in 2004.

Dec. 9, 2003 in several publications

CNET News.com

Execs target 99-cent song price

Speaking at the iHollywood Forum's Music 2.0 conference in Los Angeles on Monday, executives on both sides focused on the 99-cent (57-pence) price tag that has become the market's standard for downloadable music.

Dec. 9, 2003

CBS MarketWatch

Pressure on e-music prices

One student said at 99 cents a song for online music, she'd be more likely to buy a CD. Several other students on the panel agreed with the sentiment, one adding, "If it's 30 cents I would buy it."

Dec. 9, 2003

Macworld

iTunes Music Store: 20 million served and growing

"The way [Apple] did it makes sense with the way people use Apple's products," said Scott Cohen, co-founder and president of independent music distribution company The Orchard. "It's the best thing that ever could have happened [for independent artists and labels]."

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A Digital Music Summit, December 8-9, 2003 at Hilton Universal

Music 2.0, Dec. 8-9, Los Angeles
Reinventing the Music Business in the Digital Age

Thanks to the 350+ dealmakers who attended!

LATEST COVERAGE FROM 40 REPORTERS COVERING EVENT

Music 2.0 brings together industry leaders to analyze trends and developments affecting the business of digital music, including music’s growing portability, digital distribution, piracy, desktop music production, industry consolidation, online marketing, and the rapidly expanding number of services targeting music consumers.

Is peer-to-peer file sharing decimating CD sales?
Will RIAA's lawsuits deter music piracy or set off a consumer backlash that hurts the industry still further?
When is copying fair use and when is it theft?
Can the music business recover?
What is the impact of digital delivery of music on your career?
How much are consumers willing to pay to buy music and how will they buy it?

You'll find your answers at Music 2.0!

Join the newsmakers and provocateurs of today's music business as we wrestle with the questions at the heart of music's malaise and how the business must reinvent itself in the digital age.

You will debate, argue, network and discuss the future of:

Peer-to-peer file sharing
The future of CDs
Industry consolidation
Reaching Gen Y
Piracy
Secure transactions
Online music stores
Legal issues
Consumer backlash
New audio formats and consumer electronics
New business models
Downloads vs. streaming music
Digital radio
Wireless and mobile music
Online marketing
Emerging home entertainment technologies
Balancing publisher and label rights
Exploiting music's growing role in games, advertising, films, TV and corporations.
...a nd much more.

As always, you'll get the unparalleled networking, access to top executives and dealmaking opportunities you expect from iHollywood Forum events.

If music creation, distribution, technology, software, delivery or marketing is your business, you need to be at Music 2.0!

WHO WILL ATTEND?

Consumer electronics manufacturers
Music and entertainment marketing
Record labels, majors and indies
Artists
Retailers
Marketers and advertisers
Software developers
Songwriters
Business and legal affairs and general counsel
Investors and venture capitalists
Digital distribution services
Professional services including managers, agents, attorneys
Hardware makers and manufacturers
Digital asset management
Digital Rights Management
Digital Media technologies
Wireless and mobile companies
Studios
Music Publishers
Agents

COST:

Basic Ticket $795:
Includes conference, continental breakfast and lunch, cocktail party.

Deluxe ticket $995:
Includes basic package above, and:
Conference attendee list (names, companies and titles of attendees)
VIP Dealmaking dinner on December 8 from 7:30-9:30pm.
This exclusive VIP networking dinner will is an intimate chance to mingle and make deals with labels, indies, distributors, manufacturers, investors, and content providers.