JP (the other one) – sent me this link – I concur – GREAT ARTICLE
I particularly liked this quote :
“One of the biggest wake-up calls of my career was when I saw a record contract. I said, ‘Wait – you sell it for $18.98 and I make 80 cents? And I have to pay you back the money you lent me to make it and then you own it? Who the f**k made that rule?”
I am also reminded of some recent articles I have been seeing around Associated Press and Murdoch – and the demise of the Publishing Industry … this not about music – about publishing – but it kinda seems like ‘deja vu’, with a ‘search and replace’ algorithm applied : search ‘music industry’, replace ‘publishing industry’
TechCrunch – reporting that AP didn’t know they had their own You Tube channel
Business Week – talking of the demise of the publishing industry
Bottom line to both and others is that ‘the powers that be’ are taking the same approach of suing people and trying to force their business model on other as the music industry did – rather than looking at things differently.
It didn’t happen then. It won’t happen now.
