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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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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