Posts by Martin Brown
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Hard News: Friday Music: Not just…, in reply to Simon Grigg,
I think the main opacity is in the majors' deals with Spotify regarding other income - like ownership dividends and advertising revenue splits and any up front payments that were made to bring in catalogues which perhaps should have made its way to artists. Those haven't been disclosed - except in the case of the Sony email leaks.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Not just…, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
5000 ways is brilliant. Great project.
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"As things stand, people who licence music – looking at you right now, advertising creatives – hold the ability to deliver artists chunks of income that are basically inconceivable from any other source. Sean James Donnelly probably made more from licensing two tunes from Songs from a Dictaphone to big advertising campaigns than he has from career sales and streaming put together."
So true Russell. And it doesn't just have to be published, released tracks on big budget campaigns. Every time I have an opportunity to use local music in some way, I do. Sometimes it's a $20,000 payday for a songwriter, more often it's in the thousands, sometimes it's less than a grand for a little WIP musical noodle that ends up on an online video instead of some awful piece of foreign production music factory crap. This is becoming a hugely important revenue stream for local musos.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Not just…, in reply to Russell Brown,
"Like people do for this website.
Good news is, Givealittle has a product in the works that might fit the bill. Elsewhere, Patreon has quite a good model for creative works.
Not all crowdfunding has to be project-based."
Yes I looked at Patreon some time ago but it's still kind of goal-oriented - unless they've changed it recently. I was thinking then about how a pure patronage platform here might work but got busy on other things. Look forward to seeing what Givealittle does in that space.
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It would be good to see a local patronage-style of crowd funding where people could elect to give an artist ongoing support at the micro-payment end of things - say a dollar or two a month - rather than backing a project.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Up the Charts, in reply to Russell Brown,
And Six60 did fire T, the manager who got them up there. Which was a bit shit.
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11/20 in NZ Top20 for Six60 today. Had to look...
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"Sky viewers rage as Game of Thrones' NZ simulcast fails"
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11431915Teensy weensy timely fail there, then.
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I totally used to do that as well.
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US music copyright protection is currently 70 years after death and I believe heading towards longer. The danger for NZ is that current and future US enforcements would prevail, meaning massive, non-negotiable fines for small/naive breaches rather than actual commercial damage compensation.