Momentous Changes in the Indie Music Industry. With the beginning of the web, the ideas experienced momentous changes. Web permits artists to acquaint their music with a conceivably large group of audience easily without essentially affiliating with any record label. Customized sites help artists associate all the more to their fans. Social media groups have […]
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Royalties and Indie Music. While understanding music copyright, publishing and licensing is quite difficult and totally out of league from what an artist has entered the industry for, it is important to understand in order to establish alternative means to generate revenue. I have written more about copyright laws in my blog Alternative Income for
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Digital Sales of Indie Music. The free and open communication of the internet has led not only to reduction in the power of record labels, but also to reduction in costs associated with distribution and promotion, with the rise of social media. As i have discussed in my blog The Post-Internet Indie Music Industry, today,
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The Post-Internet Indie Music Industry. In a confirmatory study, market research done by the NDP Group and published by CE Pro, an online consumer electronics publication, in 2012, Apple was found to own a whopping 64% market share for digital purchases of music, and 29% of market share for music retailers as a whole. As
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Digital Sales and The Indie Music Industry. Digital sales of music for Apple, as I have written in my blog Apple and The Indie Music Industry, were tied to another extremely profitable and widely successful product in their MP3 player, the iPod (and subsequently the iPhone) which became the most vital reason behind its success.
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Apple and The Indie Music Industry. The late visionary Steve Jobs’ company Apple brought about a complete transformation in the legal digital distribution of music by changing the approach from subscription to purchase! As discussed in my blog Effect of Piracy on The Indie Music Industry, the launch of Apple iTunes in 2004 led to
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Effect of Piracy on The Indie Music Industry. RIAA’s success in shutting down Napster did not stop countless other sites from utilizing the new technology. As discussed in my blog Indie Artists and Record Labels, initially, it was relatively easy to legally quell and trace the file sharing piracy methods, however, when an undergraduate student
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Indie Artists and Record Labels The mavericks with little or no knowledge about business, turned the music industry on its head with their independent records in 70s and 80s. Indie bands started gaining listeners through labels. They were able to reach out to a wider range of listeners and create a place for themselves in
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File Sharing for Indie Artists. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), passed in 1998 was the most applicable and important legal foundation involved in the countless lawsuits related to file sharing. You may read about this in detail in my blog Technology and the Indie Music Industry. It prohibiting any circumvention of security technologies meant to
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Technology and the Indie Music Industry. The robust and high quality recordings of DAT recorders served as the first serious piracy threat to the music industry. I have written about this in detail in my blog Legal Foundations of The Indie Music Industry. It made the replicates of digital music easy to be produced and
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