Shimone/Justes wrote:
quoted 4 lines My personal opinion however is that sharing music
> My personal opinion however is that sharing music
> means more exposure and more exposure means more
> interest and that's really all an independent artist
> is wishing for init?
Actually, most of us are hoping to make enough money making muzik to quit
our stupid day jobs and focus on music exclusively. I very rarely hear
that exposure-as-holy-grail sentiment come from a serious musician
(although I hear it often from the hair bands out here in LA), but then
nor do I hear the money-as-holy-grail sentiment either. Its sort of a
complexity, but one I always summed up as above: I just want to get paid
so I don't have to flip burgers/sweep floors/answer phones/shovel shit
anymore.
quoted 1 line avianwayfilms@juno.com wrote:
> avianwayfilms@juno.com wrote:quoted 2 lines Artists should not sell their publishing rights to
>> Artists should not sell their publishing rights to
>> anyone.
This isn't really a reality these days for a new artist, and its one of
the many reasons I quit the music biz. I was never interested in signing
with a smaller "boutique" label (I'd start my own if I only wanted to sell
10 albums and get no promo $$$ behind me) so I went for the larger label,
and quickly found a dying empire struggling for new ways to keep their
revenues up. One of those is firmly putting their foot down on taking
publishing as part of the contract. They used to do this when they could
get away with it, now its practically "my way or the highway." One has to
decide whether he or she wants to sign over lifetime publishing to a dying
empire or not. I worked out a 5 year deal, but the bitterness had already
set in.
An artist can do quite well on publishing, and trust me, for anyone
reading this on the idm list, that's where the money's at, not touring.
Which brings me 'round full circle to StaticBeats' initial statement that
sharing mp3s is ethically ok. Yes, I agree, just for different reasons.
Truely, the odds of anyone ever making a buck on CD sales is nil.
iTunes, on the other hand, offers something else entirely. My per album
take with a label was 1.00 -- PER ALBUM. On compilations, I would
generally get .15 -- PER ALBUM (=song). Over iTunes, Napster, Sony
Connect et al, my cut is .25 PER SONG. I think you can see why I've gone
exclusively digital.
So I'd prefer they (mp3s) get bought, but everyone needs to be realistic
enough to know that 99% of the people with a Rick Strom mp3 on their drive
would likely never spend a buck on one. And yet people do. Hmm.
--
V,
~Rick Strom
Glowdot Productions
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http://users.glowfoto.com/Strom
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