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Topic History of: Time for UK labels to support UK companies
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david |
If you are going to force things to be compatable and operate on
"outside" equipemnt, in other words take away proprietary
from the software then the argument surely can be extended to
include any number of other technology and software applications
and devices.
BTW - Back to this whole issue about WMA or AAC files not working on other devices ..
With Apple AAC files you can burn a CDR and then convert the CDR to MP3 if you want to -
Freedom of choice: there are now dozens if not hundreds of online music stores operating over the internet. If you don't want AAC files you can
choose WMA and if you don't want WMA there are some sites offering
DRM free MP3 files.
Not all content is available everywhere but the big commercial blockbusters
generally are.
iTunes, MSN, Tesco music, My Coke Music, OD2 sites and a whole selection
of Telco's for ringtones.
Customers do have choice - DRM is there to protect the rights of the people who put the time and effort and money into creating these music tracks - surely for those of us in this industry that can only be regarded as a good thing. In the recorded music business you owe it to the songwriters, publishers, artists and producers to provide a layer of protection for their work. |
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DJones |
As far as i understand the french law it is NOT about different formats (PayStation/XBox, Single/LP etc.) but about DRM-Systems. |
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david |
Hi Michael,
iTunes Music Store is great for commercial independent music producers/artists & songwriters as it really does work and it's customers like it.
It brings your music into households all over the world - people who are happy to purchase music.
It does require investment from the labels - you will need a current generation MAC/iMAC, subscribe to
EAN barcodes and file for with-holding tax in the US and Japan.
So you can't be too much of a tim pot outfit, but at the same time you don't have to be a jim daddy either.
So long as you have your business registered and
are registered for VAT/GST - have a business number for tax purposes and have sufficiant repertoire to attract the requirements then Apple will give consideration to you. It can be a lengthy process -
so you might be looking at 6 months from A-Z
but it is definately the way forward and iTunes is the market leader.
As for what France is trying to do .. don't let that become a major concern .. if the ethos of this is pushed to it's indended conclusion then everything including as an example Play Station and X-Box and Nintendo will all have to have inter-operability for their games. Software for PC's will have to work on Mac's (and vise-versa) and all other proprietary
software would have to work on all manner of systems.
This is just unreal to expect this to happen.
Rights have to be protected - this is peoples livelihoods we're talking about here, so I am against what France is trying to achieve. Sorry !!!
Same goes for Norway and Sweden.
The other thing we should remember is that the Internet is not a national thing, it's international
and you have to choose what delivers the best international result when it comes to online music stores. Of course a valid approach is to provide your content to all (official) online music stores
as well as Telco's for ringtones etc .. I haven't done that but I know labels that have and it is probably the direction best travelled. Spread your
net far and wide to catch as many fish as possible.
Regards,
David |
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Michael |
david wrote:
Im sorry but I can't agree with the writer and their stance regarding iTunes.
iTunes is the very best thing that has happened to the independent
and mini majors and the major majors.
It was liberated the record industry and especially smaller labels
who otherwise had a hard time getting their repertoire into the
key world markets.
iTunes has the best (virtual) store front and has created a way for
consumers of digital music to purchase with ease an absolute huge
range of commercial and not-so commeraial music.
Jazz to Disco to Pop to Techno to Clasical and loads more -
There's a lot of slammin' aimed at iTunes going on lately
and I question the motive.
What I suggest to our fellow indy labels and producers - make
it work for you, because it can.
David
Presumably you're speaking from experience? So you are a label that managed to get onto iTunes with no problem? I know over a dozen that have been pulling their hair out over the past three years trying to engage the company in some way to be able to enjoy the "liberation".
Not sure how relevant this is, but it's topical: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5133754.stm
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david |
Im sorry but I can't agree with the writer and their stance regarding iTunes.
iTunes is the very best thing that has happened to the independent
and mini majors and the major majors.
It was liberated the record industry and especially smaller labels
who otherwise had a hard time getting their repertoire into the
key world markets.
iTunes has the best (virtual) store front and has created a way for
consumers of digital music to purchase with ease an absolute huge
range of commercial and not-so commeraial music.
Jazz to Disco to Pop to Techno to Clasical and loads more -
There's a lot of slammin' aimed at iTunes going on lately
and I question the motive.
What I suggest to our fellow indy labels and producers - make
it work for you, because it can.
David |
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