Ricardo -> RE: Still Not Fully Using Available Technology (Oct. 13 2011 20:14:31)
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ORIGINAL: dformell Hello Everybody, Thank you for your posts. Some good good points for having e-Music books & e-single sheets: 1. Artist - Paid immediately and can completely bypass the publisher plus makes more money. 2. Environment - Energy and raw materials, mainly paper, are being saved. No fuel being burned through shipping and no paper, tape etc. being used for packaging. 3. Customer - Not stuck buying a whole book if they don't want it, having to wait for mail or physically go to a store. Certainly an Artist should receive more than 99 cents for a single sheet. More like the 5-20 dollar range, depending on length of piece, would be fair. In conclusion, with digital sheet music the Artist, Customer and Environment win. This is an old arguement, your idea is not new. People want what they want on a silver platter, of course it would be great, and internet makes it seem possible. But you can't BYPASS the publisher of stuff ALREADY RECORDED BY A RECORD LABEL. Perhaps independent labels and flamenco's recording out of home studios can do it....but not stuff you probably are really after like PDL, M. Sanlucar, Amigo, Tomate, etc etc. You have to get permission first, then second, who is gonna do the work? That is why they do collections, so everyone can make some kind of money. Anyway, I am independent and doing what you guys ask, I sell fairly cheap which ever piece from MY recording you want...and I can because I own it. PDL, M. Sanlcur, Vicente, etc don't OWN their own recordings. You can't even get THEIR permission if you know them, you have to go through the publisher or who ever owns (p) and or (c) rights. Environment? Ok, maybe one or two trees are saved by pdf or gp5 files, ASSUMING nobody is printing them out for the music stand! [8|] Overall you have the right idea regarding future recordings and transcritptions....go independent and own and do all alone. but what about the whole marketing machine? The licensing and promotion, distribution advertising, printing of scores, booking performances, collecting royalties, etc etc.....sure some artists can and DO all that themselves, but there will always be the lazy guys that just sign on the line and let the publishers/record label/agents etc do all that stuff. Ricardo
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