Creative Commons Record Label
In my view, the thieves of the music industry are the .... well ... the music industry. How can an industry steal from itself? Artists who create the music, write and perform it often have to sign away their souls, stay in debt for years, and even get to a point where everything they do will be placed on a shelf and made illegal to distribute. All to keep up and coming bands from competing with the top 40 pablum.
Of course, a band can always choose not to sign an oppressive deal. And the internet offers new avenues and opportunities for artistic distribution, but the thieves in the middle of the process are fighting hard to protect their advantages. That's what the RIAA lawsuits are about. Nothing more.
Creative Commons might be helpful to artists of many disciplines, and the link below references a record label that signs bands under this legal device. Please look into it, I would never ask people to like stuff just for a cause, in other words, if the music is bad don't listen. What I am encouraging is that we find ways to open the channels and support at the very least in principle, any method which encourages new opportunities without the having to wear the handcuffs of the old guard.
DiSfish
Of course, a band can always choose not to sign an oppressive deal. And the internet offers new avenues and opportunities for artistic distribution, but the thieves in the middle of the process are fighting hard to protect their advantages. That's what the RIAA lawsuits are about. Nothing more.
Creative Commons might be helpful to artists of many disciplines, and the link below references a record label that signs bands under this legal device. Please look into it, I would never ask people to like stuff just for a cause, in other words, if the music is bad don't listen. What I am encouraging is that we find ways to open the channels and support at the very least in principle, any method which encourages new opportunities without the having to wear the handcuffs of the old guard.
DiSfish
