quoted 7 lines Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 19:22:51 -0800
>Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 19:22:51 -0800
>To: EggyToast <eggy@eggytoast.com>
>From: John von Seggern <johnvon@digitalcutuplounge.com>
>Cc: idm@hyperreal.org
>Subject: Re: [idm] who needs labels?
>Message-id: <3E2B6B8B.30205@digitalcutuplounge.com>
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quoted 1 line In spite of its problems, at the moment I'm personally leaning in favor
>In spite of its problems, at the moment I'm personally leaning in favor
Hold on, don't you think there's something wrong with a world where a record
is kept of every song you have ever listened to. (I'm sure Donald Rumsfeld,
Poindexter and their buddies over on the lunatic fringe would love this idea
though).
quoted 10 lines of the idea...Digital Cutup Lounge gets far more downloads than CD
>of the idea...Digital Cutup Lounge gets far more downloads than CD
>sales, and it would be great to get paid for that. If implemented
>correctly, the effect of this ought to be to direct a lot more money
>toward the kind of non-mass-market artists we talk about here on the IDM
>list -- their fair share anyway.
>
>Actually this proposal should be ESPECIALLY good for IDM as a genre
>because I would guess IDM and electronic music in general have a higher
>proportion of computer-literate fans who download tracks and that would
>show up in the statistics.
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The techy angle could be another factor in why so many electronica labels
are going to the wall now. If a royalty system works anything like UK
radio+tv royalties, the indies won't get a look in because the system will
be based on sampling - and Phil Collins will get the lion's share. The
old reason for sampling was that there would have been too much paperwork
and admin involved in recording all the details of every song played on
every
station - so everybody's money would get split between just the artists on
rotation.
Now that the admin can be automated and the paperwork eliminated, perhaps
privacy issues will become the new reason for limited sampling.
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