The Artist Compensation Storm
As sure as dark clouds gather in hurricane season, a storm is brewing around artist compensation. Art and technology are at odds. However, it wasn’t always that way. From the advent… Read More →
Pandora: A Change in Priorities
- Categories: Interwebs, Music business •
- Tags: artist royalties, ASCAP, change, commercial radio, indie, indie artist, indie artists, indie music, internet radio, internet radio fairness act, IRFA, music genome project, music platform, music streaming, pandora, pandora music, pandora radio, recording, recording artist, royalties, royalty payments, royalty rates, soundexchange, tim westergren •
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- by Wampus
So you’re an independent recording artist, casting about everywhere you can for airplay and exposure. Pandora, the internet-radio service with the taste-smart music library, has just accepted one of your… Read More →
Kickstarter vs. NEA: Paths to Indie Funding
- Categories: Art and creativity, Music business •
- Tags: album, art, artist, artist communities, artistic health care, arts education, arts funding, comics, community theater, creative, creative process, creative projects, creativity, crowdsourcing, culture wars, dance, design, fashion, festival, film, folk art, food, funding, funding path, games, indie artist, indie artists, indie band, indie filmmaker, kickstarter, literature, local arts agencies, media arts, museums, music, national endowment for the arts, NEA, neum, opera, paths, photography, publishing, record, technology, theater, traditional art, united states, visual arts, yancey strickler •
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- by Wampus
Have an album you’re ready to record and release? A film you want to produce and screen at festivals? How are you going to pay for it? Talking Points Memo (TPM)… Read More →
Hear-Like-Buy: Why Spotify Is Marketing, Not Commerce
- Categories: Identity, Music business •
- Tags: amazon, artistic brand, artistic identity, artists, best buy, brand, CD, copyright, digital audio, digital media, download, facebook, free spotify, freeware, identity, indie artists, indie music news, indie rock music, intellectual property, media technology, megaupload, mixtape, music distribution, music sharing, music streaming, napster, playlists, spotify, stream, streaming music, tower records, vinyl, walmart •
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- by Wampus
You can’t read an article in the music press without tripping over somebody complaining about Spotify royalties. You’ve heard the chorus: Spotify is destroying what’s left of the CD market.… Read More →
SOPA: Your Role as Artist and Advocate
- Categories: Art and creativity, Music business •
- Tags: al franken, copyright, copyright protection, creative, facebook, google, indie artists, indie music, intellectual property, law, microsoft, motion picture association of america, MPAA, music copyright, online piracy, piracy, recording industry association of america, RIAA, ron paul, SOPA, stop online piracy act •
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- by Wampus
Some people think the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is about censoring content creators. Others think it is about guarding intellectual property. Either way, the proposed legislation is about the control… Read More →