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Posted by gehzumteufel on Feb-01-2007 19:58:

just saw this

read this article. its something we ALL need to be aware of if we are not. it is a bit long but very much so represents the way the music industry works. thank god the edm world isnt so fucked.
http://archive.salon.com/tech/featu...love/print.html

Posted by bas on Feb-01-2007 20:00:

This was written by Courtney Love? I'm pretty sure 90% of it is total bullshit.

Posted by Siesta on Feb-01-2007 20:02:

hoax

Posted by gehzumteufel on Feb-01-2007 20:03:

quote:
Originally posted by dj_bas
This was written by Courtney Love? I'm pretty sure 90% of it is total bullshit.

haha not saying its all fact but the way the record companies work its EXACTLY how they rip the artists. i wouldnt doubt that some of the other stuff is true, albeit embellished a bit but still in base true.

Posted by montie on Feb-01-2007 21:23:

Too lazy to really read it, but read the first section. She's not too far off. Its a pretty fucked up system that the record companies have set up for the artists. Pretty much everything that gets fronted to the artists, they have to recoup in their small amount of royalties they get from their record sales. I mean generally, that could atleast be kind of fair, if the record companies didn't take 80-90% of the record sale. It should be the other way around. Its it pretty fucked up how the record company, not the artists own the copyright. Well there are actually two copyrights, one for the recording and another for the song. Depending on the contract, I think the artist can own the copyright for the song.

Posted by xenpro on Feb-01-2007 21:29:

quote:
Originally posted by gehzumteufel
haha not saying its all fact but the way the record companies work its EXACTLY how they rip the artists. i wouldnt doubt that some of the other stuff is true, albeit embellished a bit but still in base true.

Ben don't worry about the artists, if it was not for the promotional capabilities of the big money record companies non of the mega million selling artists would be around ... so they both go hand in hand, the artist needs the record company as much as the record company needs the artist... it comes down to who has better representation (lawyer, agent, management) and most of the time its the record companies.

Posted by Sunsnail on Feb-01-2007 21:41:

This is exactly why I don't buy CD's.

wait...what?

Posted by Lateralus on Feb-01-2007 23:04:

quote:
Originally posted by dj_bas
This was written by Courtney Love? I'm pretty sure 90% of it is total bullshit.

I seriously doubt it was written by courtney love. Havent you heard of a ghost writer?