Category: music

  • Wiener Staatsoper – who is the owner?

    Wiener Staatsoper – who is the owner?

    One of my friends asked me who the owner of the Vienna State Opera House is

    Wiener Staatsoper organization and ownership, as for Austria’s top 5 Theater Houses, is determined by the “Bundestheaterorganisationsgesetz” (BThOG)

    One of my friends asked me the question “Who owns the Wiener Staatsoper these days by the way?”. This is easy to answer. Hold tight and read:

    The major Austrian Theater Houses (Wiener Staatsoper, die Wiener Volksoper, das Burg- und das Akademietheater) are considered by law as the representative “Bühnen” (=stages) of the Republic of Austria, and are governed by the “Bundestheaterorganisationsgesetz” (BThOG) <- one word! you know German has long words…

    According to this law, the Staatsoper belongs to the company “Bundestheater-Holding Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung”, which belongs 100% to the Federation of Austria (Bund).

    To understand the ownership and Governance, you need to read § 3 of the Austrian Federal Law, the Bundestheaterorganisationsgesetz. Essentially it says that the four major Austrian Theater Houses (Bühnen) above including the Wiener Staatsoper belong to a company called: “Bundestheater-Holding Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung” which is founded by the Federal Chancellor, and which belongs 100% to the “Bund”, the Austrian Federation = the Federal Government of the Republic of Austria.

    Read the “Bundestheaterorganisationsgesetz” (BThOG) here

    You can read the “Bundestheaterorganisationsgesetz” (BThOG) here – by the way, its just being revised: Bundesrecht konsolidiert: Gesamte Rechtsvorschrift für Bundestheaterorganisationsgesetz, Fassung vom 13.07.2015

    Copyright notice

    According to Wikipedia, the photograph above of the Wiener Staatsoper is public domain, see: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Staatsoper_(ca.1898).jpg

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    English: State opera in Vienna
    Deutsch: Wiener Staatsoper, fotografiert vor 1898
    Date circa 1898
    Source Julius Laurenčič (Hrsg.): Unsere Monarchie – Die österreichischen Kronländer zur Zeit des fünfzigjährigen Regierungs-Jubiläums seiner k.u.k. apostol. Majestät Franz Joseph I., Georg Szelinski k.k. Universitäs-Buchhandlung, Wien 1898
    Author
    Josef Löwy (1834–1902) Link back to Creator infobox template wikidata:Q1705180
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    (Reusing this file)
    Public domain
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    This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1923.
    This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.

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  • Japan’s media revolution – a European perspective

    Presentation to a delegation of Denmark’s media leaders: printed media, newspapers, radio, TV

    at the Embassy of Denmark

    March 1, 2010

    Topic: “Japan’s media revolution – a European perspective”

    Agenda

    • Why is there no NOKIA in Japan?
      • Is Japan’s market difficult and closed?
      • What can we learn?
      • Nokia tried for 20 years to build a business in Japan and failed
      • Vodafone acquired Japan’s third largest mobile + fixed net telecom operator and failed
      • Airbus started very very late – and therefore has sold almost no airplanes in Japan Why?
      • You must listen to Japanese customers to build a healthy business in Japan
    • First to market in Japan vs Galapagos effect
    • Media and TV industry overview
    • Mobile TV
    • Cross platform example: BeeTV
    • For more details see our Report on Japan’s Media

  • 5 Million Chaku-Uta-Full downloads

    KDDI/AU announced that 5 Millions Chaku-Uta-Full songs have been downloaded until April 3, 2005.

    KDDI/AU chaku-uta and chaku-uta-full music downloads vs iTunes global downloads
    KDDI/AU chaku-uta and chaku-uta-full music downloads vs iTunes global downloads

    Download our 230 page analysis of KDDI/AU

    Download our “mobile music” report

    Note added: on June 15, 2005, KDDI reported 10 million Chaku-Uta-Full downloads…

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  • Chaku-uta-full: 3 million downloads

    KDDI/AU reports 3 million Chaku-uta-full (full song) downloads since it’s start on November 19, 2004:

    KDDI sells approximately as many chaku-uta music clips as iTunes sells music globally demonstrating the enormous size of Japan's mobile music market
    KDDI sells approximately as many chaku-uta music clips as iTunes sells music globally demonstrating the enormous size of Japan’s mobile music market

    More in our “Mobile Music Japan” report.

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  • Music on mobile – as a "killer application"

    Turns out that music is a killer application on mobile – we are working on a number of projects in the mobile music field. We just completed our “Mobile Music Japan” report.

    With an incredibly much smaller potential customer base KDDI/AU delivered more downloads of 20-30 second songs (chaku-uta) than Apple’s i-Tunes. Motorola reportedly announced a mobile phone incorporating i-Tunes at the recent CES show in Las Vegas. KDDI/AU‘s tremendous success with chaku-uta indicates that combining Motorola phones with i-Tunes will be very successfull indeed. AU reported 1 million Chaku-Uta-Full downloads within the first 48 days of service (chaku-uta-full started on November 19, 2004).

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  • iTunes versus Chaku-Uta downloads – Mobile Music Rocks…

    It’s tempting to compare iTunes and Chaku-Uta statistics to get a feel for the meaning of the Motorola-iTunes deal. Here we go:

    KDDI-AU Chaku-Uta ring-tone downloads versus global Apple iTunes sales
    KDDI-AU Chaku-Uta ring-tone downloads versus global Apple iTunes sales

    More about Japanese telecom sector and mobile in Japan: Eurotechnology Japan report on Japan’s telecom sector

    More about Mobile Music in Japan: “Mobile-Music” report

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  • Global Mobile phone ring tone market

    Global mobile phone ring tone market (source: Consect LLC, WSJ) in 2004:

    W Europe: US$ 1.5 billion (37.5%)
    Japan: US$ 1.0 billion (24.0%)
    Korea: US$ 0.5 billion (12.5%)
    US: US$ 0.3 billion (7.5%)
    ROW: US$ 0.7 billion (17.5%)
    ———————————
    Total: US$ 4.0 billion (100%)

    see: “Mobile Music in Japan” (report, pdf file)

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  • Masaru Ibuka (1908-1997), founder of SONY, obituary for NATURE

    Masaru Ibuka (1908-1997), founder of SONY, obituary for NATURE

    Masaru Ibuka obituary in NATURE by Gerhard Fasol

    Masaru Ibuka (1908-1997), founder of SONY

    After Masaru Ibuka (井深大) died on December 19, 1997, NATURE asked me to write an obituary about Masaru Ibuka, which was published in Nature on February 26, 1998, and you can download the article as a pdf-file here. The reference is: Gerhard Fasol, “Obituary: Masaru Ibuka (1908-97)”, Nature 391, p. 848 (26 February 1998).

    Masaru Ibuka obituary in NATURE by Gerhard Fasol – the background

    I used several weeks of my spare time to research and write this obituary. For example, I worked to reach and talk with several people who had met Ibuka in person, since I had never personally met Ibuka. As another example: General McArthur’s Government of Japan wanted to communicate with the population of Japan via radio, however, radio receiver production in Japan was very inefficient at that time due to quality problems, leading to very low yield. So General McArthur’s Government brought Quality experts Homer Sarasohn and Charles Protzmann to Japan to teach classes in quality management. I found out that Ibuka was a keen student of these quality classes. To understand this better, I phoned with a retired officer of General McArthur’s Government, and I also found relatives of Homer Sarasohn, who very kindly gave me a lot of information about Homer Sarasohn’s work in teaching quality management in Japan.

    Debunking some myths about SONY and Masaru Ibuka

    Interestingly, there is a lot of misunderstandings and myths around SONY, some of which I clarified in the Nature obituary for Masaru Ibuka.

    Myth: Akio Morita is the founder of SONY

    Reality: SONY was founded as Tokyo Tsushin Kenkyusho (the Tokyo Communications Laboratory) by Masaru Ibuka and by Akio Morita, who are the two co-founders of Tokyo Tsushin Kenkyusho, the company name was later changed to SONY.

    Myth in Japan: Many people in Japan think that SONY is an American company

    Reality: SONY is a Japanese company with headquarters in Tokyo-Shinagawa. The reason why many people think that SONY is an American company, is that SONY’s company name and brand name in Japan is written in Katakana, while traditional Japanese companies always write their company in Chinese characters (Kanji). (Note however, that Nissan President Carlos Ghosn, says that companies have no nationality).

    Myth: Nobel Prize winner Leo Esaki discovered the tunnel diode, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize, at IBM

    Reality: Leo Esaki discovered the tunnel diode as a researcher at Tokyo Tsushin Kenkyusho, which later changed the company name to SONY. Leo Esaki then moved to IBM Yorktown Heights R&D labs, and was awarded the Nobel Prize while working at IBM for his discovery of the tunnel diode, which he discovered while working at Tokyo Tsushin Kenkyusho.

    Read more about today’s SONY:

    More about SONY and Japan’s electronic companies in our Report on Japan’s electronics industry.

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