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Fwd: copyrights and mp3.com



Update on the MP3.com settlement (partially in response to Mark).  The
music business is changing, and I think this may be the new structure
forming up.  MP3 is actually signing original artists.

LB


> In today's paper I see why it is that MP3.com isn't especially upset
> about their recent settlement with the RIAA.  They're already way
> ahead of the lawsuit.  The article is too long to reproduce, but
here's the important parts.

> 
> MUSICIANS CATCH ELECTRONIC FEVER: Simple programs, savvy gadgets give
> composers creative control.
> 
> By Chris Kridler, Florida Today
> 
> While companies fight in court over the eletronic music flowing
> through
> the Internet, there's a fountain of the stuff bubbling up in home
> ecomputers everwhere.  People are making music--especially electronic
> music--as never before with their PCs and Macintoshes, using tools
> ranging from the simplest programs to piles of gear.
> 
> After they make it, they're guerrilla-marketing it with the help of
> sites led by MP3.com, which claims to have signed up more than 74,000
> artist.  Many earn money through the site's Pay-back for Playback,
> every time someone listens to their songs, or through CD sales. 
> MP3.com reports that an electronic music group from Houston,
> 303infinity, earned more than $20,000 last month in Playback.
> 
> <major snip>
> 
> E-enterprise
> 
> Darrell Wakley, aka Kanon, is another 26-year-old MP3.com artist from
> Melbourne who's developing a following.  "I've been selling quite a
> few
> cds," he said.  "One of the songs I had went to like No. 22 for a
> while
> (on MP3.com electronica chart), and that was out of a couple hundred
> thousand."
> 
> MP3.com's DAM (Digital Automatic Music) CD program lets artists sign
> up
> for free, handles the manufacturing and shipping of cds and gives
> half
> the sale price to the artist.  "MP3.com is just amazing when you
> think
> about what they do," Wakley said.
> 
> Another site, the Internet Underground Music Archive
> (http://www.iuma.com) offers artists 25 percent of the take from
> advertising on the IUMA pages.  
> 
> Anyone can post original music on such sites.  Genres range from folk
> to metal to acid jazz.
> 
> <another big snip>
> 
> END
> 
> 
> 
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