
Business of Music
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For years the Music Law website has been assisting musicians everywhere stay current on the list of laws and guidelines for their industry.
Music law: music copyright, music contract and music business
Apple’s iTunes LP 6 Months Later: LP What? – GigaOM
from the how-it's-done dept Yet another great blog post by Ariel Hyatt, exploring how musicians are embracing the concept of focusing on the true fans to build a modern business model -- this time looking at how musician Ellis Paul was able to raise $100,000 from just 300 fans . The actual concept appears quite similar to what we've seen elsewhere before, in that he put together a set of "tiers" for support . The Ellis Paul story actually sounds quite similar to the Jill Sobule story -- both musicians who have been around for many years, bouncing around in the old system before realizing that a big label doesn't make much sense, when you have a strong fan base and really aren't selling the amount of albums the big record label really needs to consider you a success. Like Sobule, Paul has focused on really building up a loyal audience, and figuring out ways to communicate with them.
How Musician Ellis Paul Got 300 Fans To Give Him $100,000 For Hi
Blog - 5 Predictions for the Music Industry in 2010
Tech Sometimes, you may just want to listen to your music in peace, without being interrupted by passers-by or visually intrusive ads, technology and surrounding events. That’s…For more than a decade, we’ve been waging a war on our kids in the name of the 20th Century’s model of “copyright law.” In this, the last of his books about copyright, Lawrence Lessig maps both a way back to the 19 th century, and to the promise of the 21 st .

