{"id":726,"date":"2008-10-04T13:11:30","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T12:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=726"},"modified":"2008-10-04T13:11:30","modified_gmt":"2008-10-04T12:11:30","slug":"music-industry-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=726","title":{"rendered":"Music industry changes"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you really have no life you’ll know I’ve been considering setting up an indie record label – the concept was also aired in last week’s podcast; it’s picked up and taken a stage further in this week’s.<\/p>\n

Coincidentally, today sees the launch of The Featured Artists Coalition<\/a> (FAC).<\/p>\n

The FAC seems to be a kind of ‘trade association’ to garner support for calling on the recording industry to change.<\/p>\n

Nothing wrong with that per se<\/em>, but it is an interesting concept, given the long list of very established artists who have already signed the FAC’s charter.<\/p>\n

However their general concepts bear looking at.<\/p>\n

I like the shift that the artist retains ownership of their work (unlike the current situation) but that it is leased back, for a period of time, to the record label.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure I like the terms the FAC are promoting, I think they’re not very generous to the artist. Also, the ‘all or nothing’ approach…? Why go down that road? Why can’t artists and labels share the income on a proportional basis from the moment income starts to get generated?<\/p>\n

I’m also not sure I like what the FAC are proposing for performers to receive equal payment with authors. This would reduce the income authors would normally receive by 50% whilst giving money to cover artists and remixers who, it might be said, could conceivably have had less artistic input than the authors.<\/p>\n

However I’m sure that the FAC has been established as a stake in the ground, a point from which dialogue could begin.<\/p>\n

It will be interesting to see how that dialogue moves forward over the next few years – because that’s how long I’m sure it would take to effect any change on the established music industry.<\/p>\n

Me, I’d just rather write a groundbreakingly different set of contracts between the label and the artists, and cut out all of the history.<\/p>\n

B<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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