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shhhhh..don't tell Rob....but yes, I'd love it.
you're in piracy central simon, why don't you hook up a bit torrent, or surely you can grab it at the local market.
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And we haven't even started
yes you have, you've listed all this stuff endlessly.
tell us about you hatred of mark knoffler. is it his band stuff or does it extend to his solo career and his soundtrack work?
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And then there are the option extension equations which can hold an act tied up in non-recording mode for years, if the label so desires.
chris sheen is a classic example of this.
He was tied up delivering albums for his uk label who each year took his new work and popped it on the shelf, not releasing it.
He got paid his advance as agreed but each year he continually got nowhere in his career.
There's no guarantee that he would have attained stardom but then he never really got the chance to see. now he's a little past his prime. -
It has as much to do with the present, perhaps even more since the terms have often worsened.
no accounting for stupidity.
there's no excuse for not knowing,as I said, the internets re full off it, the music papers are full of it, every cool indie rock star is full of it,The point remains - if better options are open then take them. The post punk model as you explained it seems common sense really, although the factory model differed significantly from that if reports are to be believed.
did these peoples parents not show them how to shop in a supermarket when they were growing up.
I just find the whole shock horror thing tedious,
its like complaining that you bought a jelly snake for $2.70 from a corner store and they're only supposed to cost $0.95. (I did that a couple of weeks ago and am still in shock, but never again). -
Under a very much...
See I knew you were going to do that. in fact I said as much.
sorry, my eyes glazed over in very much the same way as they did when my grandfather started telling us about the old days, when they used to lick the road clean with their tongue. jumpers for goal posts etc.I'm sure it was all very exciting at the time but now there's absolutely no excuse for not knowing about these nasty contracts, its not like the older generation haven't been going on and on about it for bloody decades.
so back to actual details, Ms loves maths? anyone?
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Worst of all, after all this, the band owns none of its work ...
that's not entirely true. the band own the composition (ie the idea of the song, lyrics and music) and have the right to re record it any time at theirs or someone elses expense.
The recorded works which are in this case funded by someone else are owned by someone else. That's like a builder wanting to own a house that he was contracted to build from his own designs.the con (and Simon will wax lyrical about this at the slightest provocation) is that the company then make the artist pay for the recording costs out of their cut of the profits. It would sit somewhat differently if these costs were covered from total income and the artists cut was left intact.
I had a couple of questions re Love's article.
firstly she says the artist gets nothing. By her own calculations they got $45,000 each from the project in advances which isn't nothing. also they didn't get $45000 they got $87500 before tax, which isn't a bad income for a year, but not when you take into account the total income for the project. but still,the band may as well be working at a 7-Eleven.
if a 7-eleven pays $87500 then yes, get a job at a 7-eleven, and save me one while you're at it.
Secondly her tax calculation was confusing.
she says there is $350000 left from the advance and then tax of $170000 leaving $45000 each.
is she saying that the tax on $87500 is $42500? ie a 48% tax rate.
ouchie!haven't read the rest yet. got work to do,
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I'm assuming you don't have a registered trademark.
company registration in nz, I don't know how that works internationally. you're right about the cost though. I'm worrying about 20 cents an mp3 and breaking a project even. International identity defense isn't in this years budget :)
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and so is sending people to a sale for the US band on eMusic, iTunes and Amazon. Hence my confusion ...
its a minor problem and one I don't know how to remedy.
a similar problem exists on lastfm where you have all these markets with bands called the same name in their small territories.suddenly its a glbal territory and the LEDs in russia can not be differentiated from the LEDs in australia and the one in CHCH.
it doesn't matter on a local scale but in an international market co-existing bands who didn't know about each other suddenly have confusion over its brand.
Lastfms reaction to this problem (and its one that spans across time cos there are bands called the "xxxx" from 1982- 1984 and other people who have picked up the name in 2002. these bands have to share the same page. there's probably some legal recourse.
Here's one closer to home.
There's a local indie record label called failsafe records. They did their first release in 1984 and have been distributing their stuff internationally since then.
simple enough you'd think, they've got a big web presence in search engines etc.Now a Gainsville florida guy thought failsafe would be a great name for his label and has forged ahead with that as his company name.
I wouldn't even know how to go about kicking his arse or even if there is any legal recourse available (he responded with essentially a "fuck you, I'm within my rights" email).
The global economy presents lots of its own problems doesn't it.Its weird cos its not even a very good name, for the nz music nerds amongst us there's a free CD of your choice if you can tell me which early eighties NZ record the name was taken from.
one letter difference propeller records.
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for Rob re eMusic
and simon, get on his back too,
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sorry. uncompleted sentence in a bizzarre cut and paste mistake from above
should readI was trying to highlight the insanity of expecting any artist in a non performance medium (and I think writing literature and recorded music are non performance mediums) to get out and hit the road .