Doing it yourself You’ve most likely heard of singer/songwriter Ani DiFranco. At age 20, she started her own label, Righteous Babe...

Redefining global sounds through local cultures – the role of homegrown services in emerging markets (MiDia) In developed music markets,...

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Some artists will have larger ambitions, and we need artists like this. We need the Green Days of the world, the U2s, even the Hawthorne...

Continuing from last week’s article: For his last CD, Friedman solicited advance sales from his coterie of fans worldwide on the World...

Unfortunately, contractually, the artists generally don’t own these tracks. The entities whose permission the downloaders require are the...

Some estimate that the record companies spend more than twice as much on promotion as they do on actual recording costs. That recording...

One music commentator explains; I run into people every day who would love to sell a gazillion records. The hip-hop artists still have an...

“The record industry has come back, bigger and better than ever. …It has been on the verge of disaster… but each time sobbing requiems...

Sometimes even the extra stream of revenue from the publishing royalties against the advance is not enough, for either party. Certain...

Nor does the artist always get a full royalty: As to sales of prerecorded magnetic tapes… the royalty payable to the Artist shall be...

Of course, the artists have to pay to make the record, albeit not directly: All recording costs incurred by the record company under this...

Labels file lawsuit alleging Vimeo failed to stop unlicensed music (Hypebot) Global music industry trade group IFPI, its Italian...

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The music industry expert continues; when I first went through the specific document we’ll be looking at, I couldn’t believe the terms. I...

Songwriters Are Getting Drastically Short-Changed in the Music-Streaming Economy, Study Shows (Variety) Ever since the music industry...

“Today I want to talk about piracy and music,” Courtney Love told the industry-ites, artists, and computer music gurus at the Digital...

Of course, some artists don’t need video exposure, feel they don’t benefit from video exposure, or have record companies who choose to...

Rapper Nas Makes at Least $40 Million Off Coinbase Investment from 2013 (Digital Music News) Rapper Nas has reportedly earned north of...

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