Instant Live

{{Infobox company

| name = Instant Live

| logo = Instant Live logo.

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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]

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Instant Live was 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|archive-date=2007-03-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070303214807/http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,122720-page,1/article.html|url-status=dead}}

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, which was originally researched by competitor DiscLive.{{cite web | url=https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2007/03/12 | 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, and Peter Frampton.

Instant Live is no longer provided by Live Nation.http://forums.downloadfestival.co.uk/tm.aspx?m=3814370{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} post by Oracle (Live Nation Official)