Instant Live
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| Industry | Music |
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| Founded | United States (2003) |
| Headquarters | Beverly Hills, CA |
| Key people | Live Nation |
| Products | Live Concert recordings, Compact discs, downloads |
| Website | www.instantlive.com |
Instant Live is a service by Live Nation which provides for the distribution of digital live recordings of concerts and music events, available soon after a performance has ended. Music is recorded and mixed at the event, by personnel inside the company's portable recording vans.[1]
The program was rolled out in clubs in Boston, Massachusetts in 2003, and has since expanded internationally. Live Nation once held a patent on a process for placing markers between songs during a live performance, giving them an effective monopoly on post-concert digital recording. The patent was subsequently rejected by the US Patent and Trademark Office after the Electronic Frontier Foundation submitted evidence of prior art to the USPTO.[2]
To date Instant Live has done live recordings of almost 200 artists, including the Allman Brothers Band, Phil Lesh and Friends, Black Crowes, Yo-Yo Ma, and Peter Frampton.
Instant Live is no longer provided by Live Nation.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Johan Bostrom (27 September 2005). "Instant Concert CDs Combat Piracy". PC World. http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,122720-page,1/article.html. Retrieved 2007-03-22.
- ^ "EFF Kills Bogus Clear Channel Patent". 13 March 2007. http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2007/03/12. Retrieved 2007-03-22.
- ^ http://forums.downloadfestival.co.uk/tm.aspx?m=3814370 post by Oracle (Live Nation Official)
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