tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7019831631758553921.post5753474817083562919..comments2024-03-07T01:37:51.446-05:00Comments on Future of Music Coalition Blog: Twitter Me ThisFMChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12966424689732534915noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7019831631758553921.post-1524206918443181412009-05-18T16:48:00.000-05:002009-05-18T16:48:00.000-05:00any public performance of music that is held by bm...any public performance of music that is held by bmi, ascap, sesac, or sound exchange........you gotta pay royaltiesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7019831631758553921.post-66572437716592473252009-05-11T09:01:00.000-05:002009-05-11T09:01:00.000-05:00Recently discovered BLIP.fm through a music friend...Recently discovered BLIP.fm through a music friend and LOVE it. So easy to send blips to twitter and FB simultaneously. It's a wonderful way to learn about new music. <br /><br />A clear benefit to artists is the grassroots word-of-mouth exposure. I definitely buy music based on reccs of FB/Twitter friends and vice versa. Have already spent too much $$ hearing songs on BLIP.fm then running over to iTunes to buy them. In my case at least, it's only going to get worse (better). I ((heart)) BLIP.fm!Elizabeth Herphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11659597522252914389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7019831631758553921.post-81752755476727243712009-05-11T06:47:00.000-05:002009-05-11T06:47:00.000-05:00.FM, not .com
i.e.
http://Twisten.fm = excellent
....FM, not .com<br /><br />i.e.<br />http://Twisten.fm = excellent<br />http://Twisten.com = not worth blogging about<br /><br />Kindest regards,<br />@DIY_MusiciansAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7019831631758553921.post-26416300536417837302009-05-10T21:14:00.000-05:002009-05-10T21:14:00.000-05:00First thoughts: This is basically free advertising...First thoughts: This is basically free advertising for the artists and should be embraced as such.<br /><br />The hashtag #musicmonday, for example, allows people on Twitter to recommend songs not just to their friends but to all of Twitterville. I feel, quite strongly, that in the cases where money is not being made (and I don't make a dime when I link to a streaming version of a song, for example) that this should be considered both fair use and beneficial to the artists. <br /><br />If the site I'm linking to, the one that hosts the streaming file, is ad supported and/or has Buy Now links from which they receive a percentage of the sale, then a reasonable fee could be negotiated. But it needs to be small because what that site is doing is providing free advertising to the artist by making a non-downloadable version of a song available to potential customers.<br /><br />As a music fan I must be able to hear an entire song before I will spend money on it. That is not unreasonable nor unfair to the artist. Analogies to other types of media (books, movies, tv shows) are inexact at best and often entirely irrelevant. If I can stream a song in its entirety and I enjoy it, I will purchase it. Will everyone? Of course not. But more people will buy a song if they get a chance to hear it than if they don't have that opportunity. And not just hear it, but hear it in a way, in a format, that doesn't cause them great inconvenience.<br /><br />Back to the issue of 'performance fees', the site providing the streaming is having to pay for the hosting space and the bandwidth, all of which cost the artist not one penny and are not cheap. Therefore, revenue sharing or whatever you want to call it, must take into account the facts that these sites provide this service to artists free of charge, as well as provide advertising (again free of charge) and (since ad rates are not exactly sky high and affiliate links don't generate great sums either) don't make much in the way of profits. Any fee charged to such a site must reflect just how much indirect monetary value they provide to an artist and how little money the site itself makes. One size most definitely does not fit all and 'standardized' rates will only kill the very tools which can best help artists transition into the new digital reality.Calysta Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01495860941870879717noreply@blogger.com