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Why Digital Music Royalties Don’t Make Sense
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 [...]
Continue reading...File Sharing Will Lead To Better Music
Thursday, January 21, 2010
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. [...]
Continue reading...Evidence That MP3 Piratry Is Good For Indie Musicians
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
I dug up this neat little blog post on Chris Anderson’s blog today. Chris Anderson, if you don’t know him, is the editor of Wired magazine. He’s famous for writing a book several years ago called The Long Tail about how the Internet is devastating the hits-based business model that old-style media companies like record [...]
Continue reading...Why You Need To Embrace Free Music
Friday, October 2, 2009
The kind of person you are is undoubtedly the most important factor when it comes to success in the modern music business. Of course, there’s always been some truth to that. In any area for that matter. Making it has always demanded hard work and an iron will. These values are now more relevant than [...]
Continue reading...How To Build A Rabid Fan Base Like Phish
Friday, March 20, 2009
Anyone looking for success in music needs to make a decision. It’s this: Do you want to be a fame whore or do you want to be like Phish? The Jonas Brothers are fame whores. Kanye West is a fame whore. And of course, how can I forget Miley Cyrus? None of these people are musicians. They’re [...]
Continue reading...Why You Should Give Away Free MP3s
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Do you remember Ashley Dupree? She’s the prostitute who was involved in the whole Elliot Spitzer fiasco. After the scandal was revealed, there were all types of stories going around about how this girl was suddenly making windfall profits from sales of her mp3s on the website amiestreet.com. I even read one story about her [...]
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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