The Tacoma Public Library could not have found someone better to host workshop series than Quincy Henry. The workshop is targeted towards individuals interested in the art and business world of hip-hop.

Behind the mic, Quincy is known as Q-Dot. This well-known event organizer and local entertainer boasts of having an extremely impressive resume that is comprised of impressive feats that have earned him an impressive name. Q-Dot kick-started the workshop on the January 19, 2012 catering for the ages of 13 to 20. This took place at the downtown Main library.

To showcase the importance and seriousness of the workshop, it has been dubbed as Hip-Hop Music as an Art Form. The aim of this workshop was to ensure that those interested in the industry get the appropriate knowledge that is needed to propel them into the right direction of growth. During the instructions, Q-Dot  focused on teaching those in attendance how they could ensure that their songs are heard and why education is an important tool.

Ideally, it is expected that this was going to be an eye opener for young people who want to pursue a career in the music industry. It sought to educate them on the grounds that need to be covered in order to succeed and what it takes to make it to the top.

More importantly, Q-Dot also sought to explore the importance of education, since many young people tend to ignore it assuming that they do not need education in the music industry.

The class started at 2pm, with registration for the class also required. Those interested are supposed to register at the Tacoma Main Library- the Olympic Room starting at 2 to 8pm.

Alternatively they can also register online at tacomapubliclibrary.org. For those interested in the industry, this opportunity cannot be missed.

As time passes by, every given sector tends to experience quite a number of changes. The music industry is not left behind either. The changes in the music industry have left us wondering what the future hold for the music albums. Given that music is sold in huge numbers, if the common trend of people buying individual songs continues, people will completely stop buying the albums and continue buying the songs. This shows us that in the future, the numbers of the albums might be numbered. The only hope lies in the fact that, most artists will not allow their songs to be sold individually rather; they will want them to be old in as albums. This offers us some hope that the albums might still remain in use, at least for some considerable number of years. In future, the albums will not remain in their average. They will either be longer or shorter.

However, the albums may contain different content such as bonus track as and demos as well as live performances. Even with all the changes that are most likely to occur in the contents of the albums, the whole concept of the album is one that may live on for quite an extended period. The whole current music catalog is basically based on the albums and the change that will be needed to move a different unit of the music other than the song, will definitely take quite some considerable time. However, it is anticipated that some online dealers will change the methods they use in selling the music to quite a large extent. Even with such changes, getting the people who buy or even listen to this music to change the whole concept on the albums will definitely take a long time. This goes a long way to show that, for the albums to be completely extinct; it will take us quite a good number of years.

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In a case that is bound to test the limits of matters intellectual property the software manufacturer, Microsoft, is suing UK giant retailer Comet over allegations that the entity sold counterfeit recovery discs to the public for a period of some 2 years. According to Microsoft, the bone of contention lies in the fact that Comet allegedly created copies of Windows Vista and XP recovery discs and hawked them to the public, fully knowing that they were the property of Microsoft Corporation.

Comet comes out with a lot of egg on the face in the sense that it not only comes out looking like a thug, as it knowingly infringed upon intellectual property, but also in the sense that it  sold these recovery discs knowing fully well that potential buyers did not need them. In fact, the manufacturer of the hard drive already provided the recovery software and they could obtain them for free from the manufacturer – Microsoft Corporation.

The court case is not the only issue that Comet has to battle with; the entity that has been going through the wringer financially is being disposed to a private equity group Opcapita. This seems to be the culmination of a tough season for the Comet brand – the entity claims to have sought the advice of their legal counsel and claim that as far as the intellectual property issue go, their operation was all above board. How Comet manages to convince a court of law on how 94,000 sets of discs manufactured by them and sold to consumers at a retail price of £14 ( Comet claims to have grossed some £ 1.4 million in sales), over a period of some two years (March 2008 – December 2009) is definitely an interesting spectacle to behold. Microsoft sues Comets over counterfeit CDs – watch this space.

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