Legal Foundations of The Indie Music Industry. The casual use of internet spread like fire and by the mid-90s personal computers were becoming a household thing because of the internet. I have written about this in detail in my blog Transformation of the Indie Music Industry. At that time, introduction of a new format called […]
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Indie Music Exploit. An indie artist cannot always be a good businessman and manage the business aspect of his work all by himself. There is always a need for someone to help in certain aspects of work. While you are making these sources available for yourself, there come the schemers, to exploit you by selling
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Alternative or Indie? In the old movie Blues Brothers, there’s a much-quoted line, in which a member of the staff of a rough-and-tumble redneck bar offers the venue’s stage play to host both kinds of music- Western and Country. The seemingly interchangeable terms may make you think – do they stand for vague beliefs and ideals, or
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Transformation of The Indie Music Industry. A lot of barriers within the production, promotion and distribution system were broken for the indie artists with the introduction of digital formats in recording instead of analog formats in the 1980s. When advancement in technology began to break down the previously rigid infrastructure of the recording industry, the
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Promoters and Indie Artists. The original source of an indie musician and artist’s income in ancient times was through live performances. The performer, talent agent, venue operator, personal manager and promoter are five major players profiting from the live music process. You may read about this in detail in my blog The History of Indie
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The History of Indie Music. The indie music industry has been fairly static for a long time, but today, it faces its largest challenges to date, in the United States. Seems like a drastic change was long overdue for the sector, and is going to take place in the 21st century. I have written about
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Indie Music and the Internet. The invention of internet has had many direct and indirect effects on the music industry – both good and bad. This article is a part of a larger article about the evolution of the indie music industry. You can read more about this in my blog Indie Music Industry. I
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Indie Music Industry. The turn of this millennium brought with it a unique and difficult set of challenges; not just for the indie music industry, but for nearly all the business industries. The advent of internet and its prevalence has had a wide range of implications on how work is done. Today, a large part
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Monetizing Music Libraries for Indie Artists. Music that has been created with the purpose of usage in other media, such as radio, video, television, or even in other people’s compositions, after licensing, is called stock music. Different forms of stock music are construction and sample packs for music production, sound effects wherever required, music piece,
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Music Libraries for Indie Artists. The use of a piece of an existing sound recording or composition for another sound recording or composition is called Sampling. You may read my blog Music Sampling for Indie Artists, to learn more about music sampling. Permission from the copyright holders, called ‘clearing’ of that sample is required in
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