- Instant Live
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company_name = Instant Live
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foundation =United States (2003 )
location = Beverly Hills, CA
key_people =Live Nation
industry =Music
products = Live Concert recordings, Compact discs, downloads
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homepage = [http://www.instantlive.com/ 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. [cite web| url=http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,122720-page,1/article.html |title=Instant Concert CDs Combat Piracy |author=Johan Bostrom|publisher=PC World|date=27 September 2005 |accessdate=2007-03-22]The program was rolled out in clubs in
Boston, Massachusetts in 2003, and has since expanded internationally. Live Nation once held apatent on a process for placing markers between songs during a live performance, giving them an effectivemonopoly on post-concert digital recording. The patent was subsequently rejected by theUS Patent and Trademark Office after theElectronic Frontier Foundation submitted evidence ofprior art to the USPTO. [cite web | url=http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2007_03.php#005155 | title=EFF Kills Bogus Clear Channel Patent | date=13 March 2007 | accessdate=2007-03-22]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 , andPeter Frampton .References
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