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	<description>Empowering the Independent Artist</description>
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		<title>It Pays To Be Nice (and insanely creative) In The New Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mika Schiller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business is not a war
People aren’t targets
Advantage isn’t competitive
Power isn’t coercion
Markets aren’t for domination
Profit isn’t value
Exploitation isn’t productive
These principles are outlined in a presentation by economist Umair Haque of the Havas Media Lab. You can watch it here. I strongly urge you to set aside some time to listen to the whole thing because it’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Waste Time Being Mad At People Who Steal Your Music</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mika Schiller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There were several comments on an article I wrote last week about why file sharing will lead to a better music industry that expressed dismay with the conclusion of the piece.
One guy mentioned that he discovered that some of his tracks were being ripped from legitimate sites and offered up on scam sites; some were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Digital Music Royalties Don&#8217;t Make Sense</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mika Schiller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AOL bought Bebo in 2008 for $850 million. After that happened, British musician Billy Bragg blasted Bebo in a New York Times article for refusing to pay out royalties to all the musicians who uploaded music to the site. According to him, they were just as much investors in Bebo as the people who put [...]]]></description>
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		<title>File Sharing Will Lead To Better Music</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mika Schiller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a cool paper about file sharing that was written by economists Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf this past summer.  The conclusion of the paper is that file sharing benefits society. One of the pieces of evidence for  that is that less restrictive copyright laws have encouraged greater numbers of creative people to create. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter, Humility And The Secret To A Long Music  Career</title>
		<link>http://madepublishing.com/wp/2010/01/twitter_humility_long_music_career/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mika Schiller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was looking at music sales for the week of 1/3/10. Susan Boyle’s “I Dreamed a Dream” was on its sixth week and sold 3, 103, 828 copies. Mega-selling records like this are becoming an anomaly, but I think there’ll continue to be a place for them in our culture because people still like a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Good Music No Longer Equals Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mika Schiller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was involved with a group of guys several years ago trying to start up a record label. There were four of us. We had world-class production talent and managed to recruit two very talented hip hop and pop artists. All we wanted was to sign a distribution deal with a major label. The quality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rolling Stone&#8217;s Steve Knopper On The Rise And Fall Of The Music Industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 20:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mika Schiller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Knopper is a reporter at Rolling Stone. He published a book this year called Appetite for Self Destruction about the meteoric rise and fall of the music industry.
I’ve posted a link below to a fascinating interview he did with NPR where he gives a grand sweep of the music industry from the  advent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indie Music Artists Shouldn&#8217;t Try To Dominate Niche Markets</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mika Schiller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day a reader asked how one goes about dominating a niche market in order to make the money that would make it worthwhile to make music.
It’s an honest question, but it’s based on the faulty assumption that you have to dominate a market to make money. The reason that the whole market domination [...]]]></description>
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