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If you are the owner of some intellectual property, then you should consider all the pros and cons, and then maybe decide to sell! The famous American singer Bruce Springsteen recently sold the rights to all of his music to Sony Music Entertainment for a record $550 million. The artist himself says that he made…

“Melodiya” reissued a vinyl with a recording of the concert suite from the ballet “The Nutcracker” and Tchaikovsky’s Overture in F major performed by the USSR State Orchestra under the direction of Yevgeny Svetlanov. The ballet score based on Hoffmann’s fairy tale “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” was written by P.I. Tchaikovsky in 1890…

The recording company “Melodiya” has released a new album by the famous pianist Ekaterina Mechetina. Together with the Krasnoyarsk Academic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Lande, she performed concertos by Maurice Ravel and George Gershwin. More specifically, George Gershwin’s Piano Concerto “Rhapsody in Blues Style” and Maurice Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major. Both works…

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the Reindeer Herders of the World, the Russian-led Arctic Council and the Arctic Council Indigenous Peoples Secretariat have developed a joint training program on cultural documentation and intellectual property management for indigenous peoples in the Arctic. Online classes will begin on December 6. During ten days of the course, students…

The famous Russian singer Zivert plans to use the services of the Co-Fi crowdlending platform to raise 2 million rubles for the filming of her new video for the song “Three Days of Love”. The artist believes that this is one of the most significant compositions in her new album. With the new album, Zivert…

In less than two weeks, members of the Co-Fi crowdfunding platform raised 160,000 rubles for the release of the album on three discs “Best Songs in 50 Years”. The set will be a collectible box containing recordings of three anniversary concerts. The number of copies is limited – there will be only 300 copies available…

On April 20, 1966, in the Great Hall of the Conservatory, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra conducted by Rudolf Barshai performed one of the most popular orchestral pieces by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony No. 40 in G minor. That live recording has never been published; it has been archived for over half a century. Only…

The Internet media “Snob” studied online crowdlending platforms using the Co-Fi platform as an example. This is a platform that helps to attract investment for projects in the creative industry secured by intellectual property. But the general principle of crowdlending platforms, no matter what projects they work with, is in many ways similar. An application…

The 2020 pandemic year hurt many areas of our lives. Radio broadcasting was included in the list of the most affected industries. In Russia state support measures allowed the radio broadcasters to survive, keep their creative teams, and save approximately 500 million rubles. What was included in the state support package? Concessional loan with the…

The digital album entitled “Aromorphosi” released by “Melodiya” Record Company is the Russian premiere of the pianist Vladimir Ivanov-Rakievsky program. Musician and educator Vladimir Ivanov-Rakievsky chose for his album the title associated with the theory of evolution. Aromorphosis in biology contributes to the development of new territories and ecological niches, the emergence of new animals…