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Date: 2002-07-12
Filesharing: Gut fuer die Kuenstler
Ein recht langer und lesenswerter Artikel aus Sicht von Janis Ian[1] ueber die Musikindustrie und P2P-Netzwerke.
Das Fazit: Kostenlose Musikdownloads helfen den Kuenstlern aber schaden damit den Musikkonzernen.
[1]http://www.janisian.com
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THE INTERNET DEBACLE - AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW
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The Internet, and downloading, are here to stay... Anyone who thinks otherwise should prepare themselves to end up on the slagheap of history." (Janis Ian during a live European radio interview, 9-1-98)
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The premise of all this ballyhoo is that the industry (and its artists) are being harmed by free downloading.
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Nonsense. Let's take it from my personal experience. My site (www.janisian.com ) gets an average of 75,000 hits a year. Not bad for someone whose last hit record was in 1975. When Napster was running full-tilt, we received about 100 hits a month from people who'd downloaded Society's Child or At Seventeen for free, then decided they wanted more information. Of those 100 people (and these are only the ones who let us know how they'd found the site), 15 bought CDs. Not huge sales, right? No record company is interested in 180 extra sales a year. But that translates into $2700, which is a lot of money in my book. And that doesn't include the ones who bought the CDs in stores, or who came to my shows.
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Realistically, why do most people download music? To hear new music. Not to avoid paying $5 at the local used CD store, or taping it off the radio, but to hear music they can't find anywhere else. Face it - most people can't afford to spend $15.99 to experiment. That's why listening booths (which labels fought against, too) are such a success.
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Who gets hurt by free downloads? Save a handful of super-successes like Celine Dion, none of us. We only get helped.
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in 37 years as a recording artist, I've created 25+ albums for major labels, and I've never once received a royalty check that didn't show I owed them money.
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If the music industry had a shred of sense, they'd have addressed this problem seven years ago, when people like Michael Camp were trying to obtain legitimate licenses for music online. Instead, the industry-wide attitude was "It'll go away". That's the same attitude CBS Records had about rock 'n' roll when Mitch Miller was head of A&R. (And you wondered why they passed on The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.)
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As to artists being "marginalized out of our business," the only people being marginalized out are the employees of our Enron-minded record companies, who are being fired in droves because the higher-ups are incompetent.
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What's the new industry byword? Encryption. They're going to make sure no one can copy CDs or download them for free. Brilliant, except that it flouts the Bill of Rights. And it pisses people off.
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And for those of us with major label contracts who want some of our music available for free downloading well, the record companies own our masters, our outtakes, even our demos, and they won't allow it. Furthermore, they own our voices for the duration of the contract, so we can't even post a live track for downloading!
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There is zero evidence that material available for free online downloading is financially harming anyone. In fact, most of the hard evidence is to the contrary.
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As artists, we have the ear of the masses. We have the trust of the masses. By speaking out in our concerts and in the press, we can do a great deal to damp this hysteria, and put the blame for the sad state of our industry right back where it belongs - in the laps of record companies, radio programmers, and our own apparent inability to organize ourselves in order to better our own lives - and those of our fans. If we don't take the reins, no one will.
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Mehr:
http://www.janisian.com/article-internet_debacle.html
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edited by Abdul Alhazred
published on: 2002-07-12
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