Am Thursday, dem 14. Feb 2008 schrieb Alex Hudson: > It still comes back to the basic issue with earning a living from this > kind of art.
Most artists cannot make a living from their record cotract alone at all. > There are plenty of people willing to pay money for it, but > there are up-front costs which need to be covered, thus you need > investment. If self-publishing and gathering income that way were so > easy, bands would be doing that instead of getting record contracts (and > a good proportion of them actually do; not many make a living from it > though). Are you trying to tell us, that nobody would make music, because the costs are too high??? I beg to differ! > I haven't seen [m]any examples of where that was done before > the artist was sufficiently well-known to be able to do it. Have a look at Jamendo: http://www.jamendo.com/ Most artists there don't have a record contract. Because only few independent labels allow publishing with Creative Commons. Paying through Jamendo is possible, but that's not as easy as it should be (Paypal). -- AKFoerster _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
