Print is Dead has a nice piece focusing on how much has changed in the music industry by comparing the release 40 years ago of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band with Paul McCartney's latest release: Print is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age -- It's Getting Better All the Time: Paul McCartney's new record. It is a very upbeat piece, though it ends with a little admonition to the publishing industry not to sit idly by and wait for the ax to fall.
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Nice to hear something positive about the music biz
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Indeed an upbeat piece. It will be interesting to see in this era of I-Tunes and file sharing if music creators (composers and performers) when signing the big record deal, stop and ask themselves: Should I be signing away ALL of my rights? Will the record company do any of the things Paul McCartney did when he released "Memory Almost Full" -- or, should I retain the right to do some of these things myself?!
Posted by Ned Quist | July 23, 2007 10:16 AM
Posted on July 23, 2007 10:16
It seems inevitable that signing a 'record deal' for musicians will soon have little to do with assigning over rights or distribution - it will instead be a purely promotional contract. As demonstrated by Radiohead's latest album, musicians can now easily control the production and distribution of their own music - all they need is the promotional muscle to create demand.
Posted by music technology | October 12, 2007 9:29 AM
Posted on October 12, 2007 09:29