Music Business
One of the things I find both fascinating, but also troublesome about Youtube covers is the licensing aspect. Ie, a mechanical license, ie Harry Fox doesn’t really work, as you arent selling, and its not like you can go out and buy 1000 count license for 1000 browser hits. In addition, if you tweak the [...]
Massive scaling was the big carrot of record deals. The proverbial work once, and sit back to reap all the rewards based upon the initial investment is something venture capitalists dream of all the time. Being practical though, almost always there is some level of incremental investment in each successive sale. A more realistic model [...]
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Records were huge, but significant money was made on merch too. In some case, merch might even come with the record. Indie labels spring up everwhere, and they’d take chances that the large entities wouldnt. As the decade ended, technology changed, and the ability to get music for free, namely through electronic distribution, caused record [...]
Mike King wrote a post entitled “Are the PROs hindering the development of new artists?” and I think the opposite is the case in many situations. Far too many new artists are being taken advantage of ranging from pay to play, to perform for free, to perform for a pittance. If ones music AND ones [...]
I found the following pretty useful, albeit its from 2005. Health insurance for an independent contractor is impossible. This country is in a terrible health insurance situation. We have at least 400,000 songwriters affiliated with the three performing rights organizations who have no coverage at all. These are people that we know don’t have health [...]
Continue reading about Health Insurance interesting article from ASCAP
Previously, I wrote about the Zero Revenue Music Media Model. For the individual band or musician, they can get by, and likely ever prosper with alternative revenue sources. A few might even strike it rich. The big problem is providing revenue in the chain for the parts who create huge value. The predicted lower value [...]
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@kevinkclee talked about the rise of digital music, and that owning, storing, and listening costs are heading towards zero, thus killing such as a revenue stream. Obviously, those with a vested interest are not going to want to see that happen, but I think its inevitable. In part, being I just read the full transcript [...]
Music was a revenue source of mine for many years, but then chasing semiconductor process issues took more and more time, and something had to give… and the days of being a hired gun were it. During the time I was out of the music scene, many things changed. The whole pay to play thing [...]
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