Four days of CMJ-sponsored panel discussions at NYU’s Kimmel Center last month saw musicians and music-industry professionals hashing out some of the most pressing issues facing the music business today. Not surprisingly, the monetization and piracy of digital music was a subject that came up in all panels, though (also not surprisingly) the issue was never fully resolved. Meeting one week before Google’s announcement of a partnership with MySpace, Lala, Rhapsody, and imeem to launch its OneBox music search engine, the panelists proposed a variety of remedies for the five-billion-dollar loss that the music industry has suffered annually, ostensibly due to pirating, since 2000.

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San Diego, CA– June 19, 2009 – Interview by Virgil Dickerson. Duncan Hutchinson is a music industry veteran who is chief content officer at RightsFlow. RightsFlow handles professional services for music rights management.Duncan also works with Blackheart Records and discusses the latest release by Girls in a Coma.
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January 19, 2009 – A provider of licensing and royalty services announced that Duncan Hutchison is joining the Company as Chief Content Officer overseeing the Outsourced Mechanical Licensing division.

Hutchison, who comes to RightsFlow with almost 20 years of music industry experience will lead RightsFlow’s content acquisition division and will be responsible for building and managing the label and distributor groups signed to the company and for implementing its expansive growth plans in this area for 2009.
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New York, NY, January 13, 2009– RightsFlow, a provider of licensing and royalty services today announced that Duncan Hutchison is joining the Company as Chief Content Officer overseeing the Outsourced Mechanical Licensing division. Hutchison, who comes to RightsFlow with almost 20 years of music industry experience will lead RightsFlow’s content acquisition division and will be responsible for building and managing the label & distributor groups signed to the company and for implementing its expansive growth plans in this area for 2009. Hutchison has an extensive music background working in senior management roles with music companies in both traditional and digital sectors: Caroline Distribution, Alliance Entertainment, K-Tel International, Sheridan Square Entertainment, Blackheart Records, Gray V, and WoozyFly.com
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Duncan Hutchison has joined RightsFlow as chief content officer, with the responsibilities for building and managing the label and distribution groups who use the company’s services.
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