Retribution’s Comments

• Mar 10th, 2010 @ 4:42am

  Old vs New Music Industry

  on Sorry, There's No Silver Bullet Business Model For The Music Industry
  The OldMusicIndustry (OMI) should keep on doing where they are good, namely supporting and cashing on big stars. They also should stick to their old business models. In my opinion iTunes is also OMI.
  The NewMusicIndustry (NMI) will consist of music authors and composers that want to establish a direct link with their own fans, that start managing their own rights (with new licence types such as Creative Commons and VillaMusicRights) and will therefore do their own marketing (through social networking), will be aware that they do not want 360 degrees deals with music companies, cash for themselves their live gigs. Thus become more interesting for music halls and (web)radiostations that do longer have to pay off collecting organisations. Etc.....
• Jun 15th, 2009 @ 5:20am

  Re: Authors should no longer fully license music companies

  on Entertainment Industry Pushes To Make Mininova Useless
  It is illusion to think that collective rights organisations manage to find all (illegal) and or commercial music users all around the world. And thus not all users will get a bill. With a smart idea it should be possible to appeal to most music users (private and commercial) to enable legal downloads for private users. And enable legal and commercial (paid) usage of music through the smart use of internet. The internet democratised distribution to the detriment of the music industry. It should also be able to help music authors administering their copyright themselves. Commercial users can go to the villamusicrights website buy a license from the music author. In that way (s)he is a legal user of the music for the time as stated in the license by the author. The commercial user pays a certain amount for the license, which will be made payable (after deducting a small fee) to the author within a few weeks.
• Jun 13th, 2009 @ 12:15pm

  Authors should no longer fully license music companies

  on Entertainment Industry Pushes To Make Mininova Useless
  Copyright is more or less the same all over the world. It is a (very) strong right for the maker of a work. This strong original right has been captured over the years by the "in between" industry. Usually referred to as music industry. As mostly (famous) music authors did already in Featured Artist's Coalition they (music authors) should not have giving away/up their rights.
  
  So (music) authors: Keep it, make/give a licence that allow private users to be able to download legally and for free. Anybody earning from (your) music should then buy a license from you. To difficult to administer? No, the internet is your distribution 'machine'. So administer your own rights, if you want you can use for example Creative Commons licences, but geting the retribution is then very difficult, not impossible. Recently a new website saw the light by enabling music authors to administer their own rights: www.villamusicrights.com. In the form they use the music downloaded through that site is no longer illegal and the downloader is no longer a criminal because the music author gave him the licence.