 Congratulations!!
John Kellogg (Berklee College of Music) awarded MEIEA Research Grant July 17, 2006. MEIEA is
pleased to announce the first winner of the newly-instituted MEIEA
Research Grant program. John Kellogg, Assistant Chair of the Music
Business/Management Department at the Berklee College of Music, was
awarded a $1,500 research grant for his proposal "Freeing the Music: An
Examination of Proposed Methods of Streamlining the Process of
Licensing of Music for Sale on the Internet."
A summary of the proposal, in Professor Kellogg's own words: "U.S. Copyright law makes it difficult for
Internet Download Services
(IDS) to license virtually all of the songs recorded for digital sale.
The true potential of the vastly growing digital sale market is
thwarted by the difficulty IDS encounter when trying to license songs
for digital sale, causing the music to be imprisoned in label
vaults.
Problems occur when the services attempt to license mechanical and
performance rights, requiring separate licenses and payments to two
different licensing agents. I propose to write a journal article
examining the proposals to remedy this problem and fairly compensate
publishers and songwriters."
Professor
Kellogg
will share the fruits of his research with MEIEA by presenting his
findings in the MEIEA Journal and at the next MEIEA conference in
California in 2007.
There are three types of MEIEA Research Grants. The first award, to Professor John Kellogg, is the Junior Faculty Grant. In the fall and spring MEIEA will call for applications for the Senior Faculty Grant and the Collaborative Grant (faculty/industry). Congratulations to
all the MEIEA members who submitted proposals for the Junior Research
Grant. Applications were reviewed by the Research Grant Evaluation
Committee (Marcia Lewis, co-chair, Valparaiso University; Bruce Ronkin,
co-chair, Northeastern University; Phyllis Johnson, Columbia College
Chicago; Theo Papadopoulos, Victoria University).
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