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Billy Corgan wants broadcast radio to pay performers | Digital Media - CNET News
Corgan was testifying on behalf of the Performance Rights Act, which "would close a loophole in copyright law that allows music radio stations to earn billions every year without compensating the artists and musicians," according to a statement from the legislation's backers.
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Corgan was testifying on behalf of the Performance Rights Act, which "would close a loophole in copyright law that allows music radio stations to earn billions every year without compensating the artists and musicians," according to a statement from the legislation's backers.
Musicians can prosper in the age of free music « Interactions
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Revenue Protect: Eric's Blog: Pay As You Like
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However, stealing the music helped to instigate a life-long passion that also caused me to go to the record shops and buy many of the songs I listened to.
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All that changes is that instead of advertising the music, the advert is the music. The bands instead make money from gigs and t-shirts, neither one of which can be copied quite so cheaply or easily.
Music Ally | Blog Archive » Exclusive: Warner Chappell reveals Radiohead’s ‘In Rainbows’ pot of gold
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Radiohead had made more money before ‘In Rainbows’ was physically released than they made in total on the previous album ‘Hail To the Thief’.
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The topline figure, though, is that there were three million purchases of In Rainbows, including physical CDs, box-sets, and all downloads - including those from the band’s own website and from other digital music stores.
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Radiohead's Pay-As-You-Like Experiment Deemed Huge Success, Drove Record CD Sales | Maximum PC
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Earning a considerable amount more than they did on their previous album with nearly 1.75 million physical albums sold and 3 million copies sold total, Radiohead has earned the right to mark this down as a rousing success. It should also be noted that they made more money off of the digital distribution of ‘In Rainbows’ than they did on their previous album, ‘Hail To the Thief’ which only sold somewhere in the low hundred thousands.
Survey: young people happy to pay for music—on their terms
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80 percent of P2P users said they would pay for a "legal file-sharing service."
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What the respondents appear to want is an unlimited download service free of DRM that could be legally accessed for a monthly fee, something that doesn't yet exist.
Digital Productions: Music is Expensive, Copies are Free
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I think the main reason people are finding it hard to figure out how much to charge for MP3 files (variable? higher? lower?) is that they shouldn’t be charged for at all.
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Rather than the tragedy those brought up with copyright imagine this to be, it has its benefits to musicians in the digital domain. Freely copyable music provides free reproduction, free distribution, free promotion, and thus builds up the size of the paying audience.
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Wired 13.09: POSTS
lessig says that if grokster is liable for building a technology that can be used to infringe copyright, so apple-ipod is liable as well
The Inevitable March of Recorded Music Towards Free
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2007 is turning out to be a terrible year for the music industry. Or rather, a terrible year for the the music labels.
The DRM walls are crumbling. Music CD sales continue to plummet rather alarmingly. Artists like Prince and Nine Inch Nails are flouting their labels and either giving music away or telling their fans to steal it. Another blow earlier this week: Radiohead, which is no longer controlled by their label, Capitol Records, put their new digital album on sale on the Internet for whatever price people want to pay for it.
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Users will be encouraged (even paid, as radio stations are today) to download, listen to and share music. Passionate users who download music from the Internet and share it with others will become the most important customers, not targets for ridiculous lawsuits.
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