Nate (#7), the thing is, this is where the labels had the chance to re-invent themselves and genuinely add some value to the process. There's a huge amount of product and it can be hard to find the good stuff*, but the labels could have gone back to getting some AandR men and actually added value by finding and sponsoring the really standout stuff.
Instead they've hidden behind a twisted legal system and kept churning out karaoke-lite crap.
Inventing different ways to screw over the artists isn't the answer.
* Actually i'd argue the problem is that there's so much good stuff out there the real problem is finding it all.
re: Comment 10, touring. Either the label is doing the promotion and sorting out the tour, in which case your return as a performer will be next to nowt, or you're sorting it out yourself and you're not going to get either that size or that number of gigs.
It really fucks me off when people go on about this, touring is not the money making machine that people seem to think it is.
Jim's arguments (#19) are valid, especially as a content creator, but i expect that (as John #27 points out) these things will change over the next few years as contracts are re-negotiated.
For a digital product they don't make any sense, it's just going to take a bit of time for the financial world to catch up with the real one. The legal world will probably take another 50 years...
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re: noise level
Instead they've hidden behind a twisted legal system and kept churning out karaoke-lite crap.
Inventing different ways to screw over the artists isn't the answer.
* Actually i'd argue the problem is that there's so much good stuff out there the real problem is finding it all.
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re: touring
It really fucks me off when people go on about this, touring is not the money making machine that people seem to think it is.
On a vaguely related note, for a piece of major-label publicity masquerading as news, have a look at the BBC site here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/10581280.stm
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It's a transitional thing.
For a digital product they don't make any sense, it's just going to take a bit of time for the financial world to catch up with the real one. The legal world will probably take another 50 years...
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Copyright vs intellectual property
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