All You Need to Know About the Music Business: 10th Edition
Now the payment streams reversed: instead of charging astronomical licensing fees, record companies paid DJs to play particular songs.* The first type of mistake businesses often make is that they misjudge the relationship between two products, seeing them as substitutes when they are, in fact, complements. In hindsight, we see things more clearly,
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I found a music lawyer and showed him the contract.
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
He foresaw the strategy of testing on new releases consumers before added money is spent to ensure that it isn’t wasted. In short, the new release business was to become like an independent label. Publishing and recorded music A&R should be combined to ensure that all recorded music releases had a combined publishing deal and that you can captu... See more
Sriram Krishnan • Dave Goldberg on music Music
And so what you've ended up with, not surprisingly, is a few key players that happen to own the majority of the IP that is kind of a must have in this industry to have a product offering and a handful of distributors that have gotten scale on distribution of great user experiences like a Spotify, Amazon, a YouTube, whoever you might want to think a... See more