Good conversation about netlabels down in the comments on this blog entry by Andrew Dubber.
Category Archives: labels
postapocalyptic visions of the record industry
November 16, 2008 – 4:58 pm
From the comments on sue em all not good for labels, here’s Greg on the prospects for the music industry:
It’s kind of like Dr. Bloodmoney or one of the other good Phil Dick post-apocalyptic novels: most of civilization may have been destroyed, but some industrious tinkerer out there can probably put together a wood-burning car, [...]
netlabels come first in netaudio
November 13, 2008 – 12:16 pm
I can’t tell you who the major netlabel musicians are. I can’t even tell whether there exist musicians with broad name recognition.
But I can tell you a few of the major netlabels: Thinner, 8bitpeoples, and Monotonik.
Which is to say that the labels are the points of focus in that world.
mini-talk at CC Salon tonight
November 11, 2008 – 11:28 am
I’ll do a shorty talk at the Creative Commons salon in Silverlake, in LA, tonight. My topic is going to be the role of permissive licensing in the business of internet music. I’ll lay out a map of the industry as a whole and situate copyleft within it.
Flavorpill describes the event this [...]
copyright don’t ask don’t tell
November 7, 2008 – 12:25 pm
The other day I emailed a netlabel to ask if I could rehost their album art. They didn’t have a version of it online for me to include using a direct link, and it wasn’t under a permissive license that would permit me to redistribute it.
Then yesterday I emailed a fellow who had put [...]
so who’s driving this cart, anyway?
June 5, 2008 – 5:05 pm
Crosbie Fitch’s thoughts on what’s a label anyway:
What I think we’re seeing is a market inversion, that we’re currently bang smack in the midst of.
When this inversion is complete, instead of a label acting as an artist’s promotional agent maximising the sale of their music to their audience, we’ll have an audience’s discoveral agent maximising [...]
the mo bettah label
June 3, 2008 – 10:07 pm
Ok, so, this might seem like a basic question but what is a label anyway?
Ian thinks it’s a music service organization oriented towards market niches:
With the disappearance of advantaged label competencies such as superior production, distribution, and marketing, reconfigure your labels to be based around affinities and focused narrowly enough to serve roughly the same [...]