The copyright is held by the artist by default, until they relinquish it to the publisher. Without holding legal copyright, the artist does not have any rights to their art. –the ARTIST– still owns his personal reproduction of that ART for sale even. This case only had to do with whether the defendant in a copyright infringement suit could sue for legal fees (previously, the answer was no).Įven without holding legal copyright J.F. Occasionally the rights will be non-exclusive, but that’s amazingly rare (it usually applies only to licensing in different countries). Minor labels usually operate the same way, but occasionally they will strike a “licensing” deal, meaning they only hold the copyrights for a specified length of time. And in order to even get to the bargaining stage with the label, you will have to sign a “deal memo.” This means that you are legally obliged to eventually sign with that label, and cannot relinquish your copyrights to anyone else, or publish the music yourself. In the case of major labels, none will sign a contract with you unless you relinquish the exclusive rights to your music. It is not optional unless you relinquish your copyright to the label, they can’t legally publish your music. “Sold” is probably not the right word, as copyrights aren’t property in the traditional sense. Treat your fans right, learn to leverage what’s infinite to make something scarce more valuable, and then sell the scarcity.įiled Under: business models, economics, free, lady gaga, musicīy Artist choice yes. The specifics of implementing a business model around the concept are very, very different - but the core concept remains the same. Like Mariah Carey, it looks like Lady Gaga has realized that this concept of Connect with Fans and giving them a Reason to Buy works at the superstar level just as much as it does down at the indie artist level.
I don’t believe in how the music industry is today. You should go out and tour it to your fans in India, Japan, the UK. “I hate big acts that just throw an album out against the wall, like ‘BUY IT! F*** YOU!’ It’s mean to fans. Similarly, she knocks bands that don’t really try to work hard to please the fans, and who just expect them to automatically buy each album: Giant artists make upwards of $100 million. She explains she doesn’t mind about people downloading her music for free, “because you know how much you can earn off touring, right? Big artists can make anywhere from $40 million for one cycle of two years’ touring. But what about the unauthorized kinds? Well, in a wide-ranging (and really quite fascinating) interview that Lady Gaga did with the Times Online in the UK (check it out before they put up the paywall), Lady Gaga admits she’s fine with people downloading her music in unauthorized forms because she makes it up in touring revenue:
#Biff rose give yourself free#
However, most of that article focused on “legal” free music - such as the songs her label had put up on MySpace and YouTube and elsewhere. Mon, May 24th 2010 11:24am - Mike MasnickĮarlier this year, we wrote about how Lady Gaga had leveraged free music as a huge part of building up her popularity, and turned that into money via sellout tours and corporate sponsorship.
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