New York Post (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Warner Music Group boss Edgar Bronfman Jr. wants a bigger cut of the booming business around video games like "Guitar Hero" and "Rock Band," setting up a showdown over money with their makers Activision and MTV. Bronfman yesterday threatened to...
Digital Daily - All Things Digital (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
It wasn’t very long ago that Warner Music Group boss Edgar Bronfman Jr. was demanding a share of Apple’s iPod revenue and calling for mandatory peer-to-peer filtering and taxes on recordable media and MP3 players. So to hear him calling for higher royalties from video games like Guitar Hero and Rock Star isn’t all that surprising.
Good Morning Silicone Valley (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
For one brief moment last November, it sounded like Warner Music boss Edgar Bronfman — notorious for his inability to get his head around the idea that the new digital landscape holds opportunities as well as threats — had finally gotten it. “We used to fool ourselves,” he...
Idolator (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
During Warner Music Group's earnings call today, chairman and CEO Edgar Bronfman darkened the bright mood set by his company's narrower-than-expected quarterly loss when he poured cold water on the future of his company's music existing on video games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band . He sniped that the companies behind those participation-heavy enterprises paying out what he called "a...
Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Warner Music Group's Chairman and CEO, began the call offering a set stats designed to show how the company is outpacing the rest of the music industry—or at least doing less worse. However, major successes came from albums by Frank Sinatra and Madonna, not exactly rising young artists. Online digital front, ringtone revenue remains small and was flat in Q2, especially...
Tiny Mix Tapes (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
A report in The New York Post (via The Daily Swarm) claims that the salaries of major record label executives are quickly diminishing. Chief Executive of EMI Music Elio Leoni-Sceti is reportedly paid less than $1 million a year for his work (aw, c'mon!), while Warner Music CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. has a base pay of $1 million, with the opportunity to make up to $6 million (should be way...
Deadline Hollywood Daily (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
Barack Obama's new VP choice Joe Biden has never received much financial support from Hollywood, unlike so many Democratic senators. According to the Center For Responsive Politics, which follows political money, Biden throughout his career has raised only $390,298 from the TV/Movies/Music sector, including a mere $187,600 from entertainment industry donors in 2008 while he was running for [...]
Computer And Video Games (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
It's all about the money. Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has taken Warner Music chief Edgar Bronfman to task for saying game companies don't give music labels enough licensing fees for titles like Guitar Hero. Click here to read the full article
LA Times (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
The firms deserve a bigger piece of the profit from music titles, Warner CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. says. Many music industry executives facing a CD sales slump love the sound of Guitar Hero and Rock Band.
Game|Life (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
Reacting to comments made earlier this month by Warner Music Group CEO Edgar Bronfman, Activision head Bobby Kotick says Bronfman's desire for larger royalties from rhythm games is "one-sided" and not respectful. "I think his view was ... that [Warner...
Endsights (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Last week, Warner Music Group CEO Edgar Bronfman said that the amount Activision and EA were paying music companies to license their songs was “far too small”. Today, speaking to the Financial Times, Activision CEO Bobby Kotick fired back, saying that Bronfman’s comments were “one-sided” and were disrespectful to what Activision had done for the music [...]
1UP (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
Despite music executives and the labels they work for commending the recent popularity of music games giving sluggish music sales a boost, Warner Music Group's Chief Executive Edgar Bronfman against what he feels is "far too small" of an amount paid to license songs for the ever growing content included within the games. In defense of and the music game genre general, Activision-Blizzard...
Los Angeles Times (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
The firms deserve a bigger piece of the profit from music titles, Warner CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. says. Many music industry executives facing a CD sales slump love the sound of Guitar Hero and Rock Band.
Next Generation (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has taken Warner Music cheif Edgar Bronfman to task for saying game companies don't give music labels enough licensing fees for titles like Guitar Hero. read more
GayGamer.net (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
Hey gaymers! I suppose it's a Warner Music day here in the land of gaming news: Activision Blizzard CEO Robert Kotick fired back at Warner Music after the latter sought higher royalties for its songs used in games such as Guitar Hero and Rock Band . Firstly came Warner Music CEO Edgar Bronfman, Jr.'s charming condescension to Activision last week: "There is what I would call a very paltry...
