The Modern Music Industry!
Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 10:49 am
The copyright laws dont mean a thing even if you sue the company involved, it a multi million pound fight to stay in the rip-off business of the so called music industry.
The only way groups and artists can make money is to be contracted to the record label (which can do anything they want with your recorded work) and get you lots of live gigs at festivals and venues,thats the only way the artists get paid with ticket sales and the t shirts and cuddly toys with the logo on it.
Like a puppet on a string with no creative control.
Step up the ladder and the major labels have no control over recorded music and its sharing and downloading on the net.
The record industry is controlled by computer companies, and record companies have signed up with them just to stay afloat.
Its like everything else that has been sub-contracted to other firms, so no-one takes the blame when it goes wrong, same as the music bizz and copyright.
The music bizz used to be a trade like plumbing and bricklaying, but is no more, its just one big hobby, but to invest in bringing out a new tune as a artist cost money and nothing in return,or just about break even, really that dont make good business sense from the bottom to the top of the ladder.
Even if your with a major record label your still not going to get paid, it works the same right down the line from the largest label to the smallest label these days.
So its all blackmail, sign up for iTunes or be banished as a recording artist.
peace
KID ROCK BOYCOTTS iTUNES OVER PAY:bbc.com 18th june 2008.
US music star Kid Rock is refusing to put his albums on iTunes because he says artists do not get paid enough for the downloads from the Apple store.
Kid Rock is one of the last few acts not fully signed up to the service.
He said it was based on "an old system, where iTunes takes the money, the record company takes the money, and they don`t give it to the artists".
His latest album `Rock `n` Roll Jesus` went to number one in the US last year, despite being absent from iTunes.
The Beatles, Garth Brooks and AC/DC are the only other major stars who have still not made their music available on iTunes.
"Back in the day, we all know the stories of Ottis Reddings and Chuck Berrys and Fats Dominos who never got paid," Kid Rock told the BBC News website.
"So the internet was an opportunity for everyone to be treated fairly, for the consumer to get a fair price, for vthe artist to be paid fairly, for the record companies to make some money."
But they stuck to the "old system", he continued.
"I will be on iTunes eventually because i can`t avoid it, but i like to always stick to my guns and prove a point and do something original and because i believe in it."
His new single `All Summer Long` has, though, just been made available on iTunes in Europe and will be downloadable in the UK soon.
The rocker, who was famously married to actress Pamela Anderson, said he was losing 10-20% of album sales by not being on iTunes.
But he added, "I`ve just sold a million records, I`m not really feeling that blow."
The performer - whose real name is Robert Ritchie - said his record company Atlantic had asked him to "stand up for illegal downloading" a few years ago because it told him "people are stealing from us and stealing from you."
"And i go: `Wait a second, you`ve been stealing from the artists for years. Now you want me to stand up for you?"
"I was telling kids - download it illegally, I don`t care. I want you to hear my music so I can play live."
Asked whether he was worried about illegal downloading, he replied: "I don`t agree with it. I think we should level the playing field. I don`t mind people stealing my music, that`s fine. But I think they should steal everything."
"You know how much money the oil companies have? If you need some gas, just go fill your tank off and drive off, they`re not going to miss it."
But he said he did not implement that advice himself. "No, I don`t steal things, I`m rich."
Apple and Atlantic declined to comment.
The only Kid Rock album on iTunes is his 1990 debut `Grits Sandwiches For Breakfast`, to which he does not own the rights.
`FULL ALBUMS ONLY`
Garth Brookes, who is second to The Beatles in all-time US record sales - ahead of Elvis Presley - has also refused to join the iTunes revolution.
He wants fans to download only full albums because he says each album is a complete work and the songs are designed to be heard together.
"We do albums, we have always done albums," he recently the BBC News website.
Referring to songs from his 1990 album `No Fences`, he continued: "Friends in Low Places is not Friends in Low Places without Wolves or Wild Horses."
"And if people try to make it a money issue, I can get the full album to the consumer for much less than they can get it at 99 cents a song."
"There are a number of issues that need to be addressed in the digital downloading world before we introduce our music to it."
iTunes has overtaken supermarket group Wal-Mart to become the largest music retailer in the US, an independent study has said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7459796.stm
peace
The only way groups and artists can make money is to be contracted to the record label (which can do anything they want with your recorded work) and get you lots of live gigs at festivals and venues,thats the only way the artists get paid with ticket sales and the t shirts and cuddly toys with the logo on it.
Like a puppet on a string with no creative control.
Step up the ladder and the major labels have no control over recorded music and its sharing and downloading on the net.
The record industry is controlled by computer companies, and record companies have signed up with them just to stay afloat.
Its like everything else that has been sub-contracted to other firms, so no-one takes the blame when it goes wrong, same as the music bizz and copyright.
The music bizz used to be a trade like plumbing and bricklaying, but is no more, its just one big hobby, but to invest in bringing out a new tune as a artist cost money and nothing in return,or just about break even, really that dont make good business sense from the bottom to the top of the ladder.
Even if your with a major record label your still not going to get paid, it works the same right down the line from the largest label to the smallest label these days.
So its all blackmail, sign up for iTunes or be banished as a recording artist.
peace
KID ROCK BOYCOTTS iTUNES OVER PAY:bbc.com 18th june 2008.
US music star Kid Rock is refusing to put his albums on iTunes because he says artists do not get paid enough for the downloads from the Apple store.
Kid Rock is one of the last few acts not fully signed up to the service.
He said it was based on "an old system, where iTunes takes the money, the record company takes the money, and they don`t give it to the artists".
His latest album `Rock `n` Roll Jesus` went to number one in the US last year, despite being absent from iTunes.
The Beatles, Garth Brooks and AC/DC are the only other major stars who have still not made their music available on iTunes.
"Back in the day, we all know the stories of Ottis Reddings and Chuck Berrys and Fats Dominos who never got paid," Kid Rock told the BBC News website.
"So the internet was an opportunity for everyone to be treated fairly, for the consumer to get a fair price, for vthe artist to be paid fairly, for the record companies to make some money."
But they stuck to the "old system", he continued.
"I will be on iTunes eventually because i can`t avoid it, but i like to always stick to my guns and prove a point and do something original and because i believe in it."
His new single `All Summer Long` has, though, just been made available on iTunes in Europe and will be downloadable in the UK soon.
The rocker, who was famously married to actress Pamela Anderson, said he was losing 10-20% of album sales by not being on iTunes.
But he added, "I`ve just sold a million records, I`m not really feeling that blow."
The performer - whose real name is Robert Ritchie - said his record company Atlantic had asked him to "stand up for illegal downloading" a few years ago because it told him "people are stealing from us and stealing from you."
"And i go: `Wait a second, you`ve been stealing from the artists for years. Now you want me to stand up for you?"
"I was telling kids - download it illegally, I don`t care. I want you to hear my music so I can play live."
Asked whether he was worried about illegal downloading, he replied: "I don`t agree with it. I think we should level the playing field. I don`t mind people stealing my music, that`s fine. But I think they should steal everything."
"You know how much money the oil companies have? If you need some gas, just go fill your tank off and drive off, they`re not going to miss it."
But he said he did not implement that advice himself. "No, I don`t steal things, I`m rich."
Apple and Atlantic declined to comment.
The only Kid Rock album on iTunes is his 1990 debut `Grits Sandwiches For Breakfast`, to which he does not own the rights.
`FULL ALBUMS ONLY`
Garth Brookes, who is second to The Beatles in all-time US record sales - ahead of Elvis Presley - has also refused to join the iTunes revolution.
He wants fans to download only full albums because he says each album is a complete work and the songs are designed to be heard together.
"We do albums, we have always done albums," he recently the BBC News website.
Referring to songs from his 1990 album `No Fences`, he continued: "Friends in Low Places is not Friends in Low Places without Wolves or Wild Horses."
"And if people try to make it a money issue, I can get the full album to the consumer for much less than they can get it at 99 cents a song."
"There are a number of issues that need to be addressed in the digital downloading world before we introduce our music to it."
iTunes has overtaken supermarket group Wal-Mart to become the largest music retailer in the US, an independent study has said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7459796.stm
peace