Posts by Mark Harris
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<Quote>You grant iCompositions a non-exclusive license ...</quote>
Tell me what part of that you are having trouble with, please.
The text referred to is comments on their system. This is standard boilerplate protecting iCompositions from false copyright complaints from someone who might be disgruntled.
Nothing is completely free; the question is, is the result worth the price?
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Pilcher is generally an idiot, rehearsing all the usual lines about how bad piracy is, but it appears someone at Xtra has woken up and said "Hang on a minute! How much will we be liable for???"
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its hasn''t work that way with the mobile phone market in nz for far far to long.
True, the barrier to entry is very high in New Zealand. Hasn't stopped a few from trying, though, so they obviously see a market to be cracked.
The real problem with NZ as a competitive market is that it's too small. Getting a 1% niche of any American market is probably sustainable, purely on volume - getting 1% of the equivalent NZ market is likely to have the bank manager asking for his money back.
The NZ telco market has been heavily weighted toward Telecom since 1990 when it was sold. Vodaphone was allowed to get it's foot in the door because Telecom could point to them and say "see, we're not a monopoly" but they had to allow them a significant chunk of the mobile market to enable them to be sustainable.
Vodaphone's revenues aren't even in the ball park with Telecom's, however and, now it's a duopoly, vodophone is fighting just as hard to keep new players out. Also, the market is close to saturation, so there's very little low hanging fruit left for newcomers.
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But to be honest Mark, much of that is crap, or at least it's music that most people don't want.
Let's be completely honest and say that 90% of all published music, regardless of the delivery mechanism, is crap ;-) (Sturgeon's Law)
Which is what the record labels and iTunes do so well. They tell most people what to buy.
And I think that is the main thing that is going to change. Russ was talking about the Hype Machine not so long ago. The whole nature of the business and how you get noticed is changing. People are telling each other what to listen to.
I'm a listener on one site, iCompositions.com, that allows artists to upload their recordings and make them available to their peers (i.e. all the other members) who can comment on them, advise on changes and even collaborate (if permission is given and it mostly is) by adding a killer guitar track or new vocals. The community aspect makes it viable, not the commercial aspect.
People make music because they want to be heard, as a writer wants to be read, as an artist want's to be viewed. If that's not the motivation, and it's simply to be a star or to make money, experience shows you're more likely to wash out than light up the sky. Some achieve both enjoyment and remuneration (and good luck to them) but by no means the majority.
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Interesting interview with the digital dude at Universal Music
Now, that's a very different approach to what we've seen previously. Excellent.
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that would depend upon what the actual costs of bringing said product from artist/label to paying customer.
In an ideal world, it would but, when you own the road to the market, you can charge the toll that you like. Once Apple is no longer the pre-eminent online marketplace (and that's happening as we type) their cut will reflect that they've got to attract artists by offering better deals.
At the moment, Apple have the soup-to nuts of online delivery mechanisms because of 2 things - the iPod, and dominance of major labels. Minor labels and independents are building their own business models and sites, and also using iTunes as well, and will, eventually, compete. And there are many (completely legal) tune sharing sites where you can download new music for free.
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Moral: use PAS's proprietary formatting codes, not the proper HTML ones :P
I did, the System formats them into em's and strong's in order to display them. I'd try it again for experimentation but twice might make Russell growls at me.
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Whew, not system wide then
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test, because I seem to have broken the other thread
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