Intellectual Property: George Clinton, You Tube and Pandora
Here is the complete two hours from Congressman Bobby Rush’s panel “Unsung, Unshaken, and Uncompensated: The Plight of African American Musicians”.
Here is the complete two hours from Congressman Bobby Rush’s panel “Unsung, Unshaken, and Uncompensated: The Plight of African American Musicians”.
Artists! Analyze your situation and make the necessary changes to take your career to another level. There’s way too much competition out there for you to be playing around with your music career.
Exploring the complexities and contradictions in how samples are licensed, Kembrew McLeod and Peter DiCola interviewed more than 100 musicians, managers, lawyers, industry professionals, journalists, and scholars.
“Indie is the New Major” speaks volumes today. Independent labels
are sprouting up all over the place with a focus on “Indie” thinking.
The Free Mixtape/Street Album phenomena is killing the revenue flow in the Hip Hop game. Artists are not getting paid, producers are not getting paid, etc..
This is about the real gangster of all this confusion, Interscope Records’ chairman Jimmy Iovine. Gangsters like Iovine and Warner Music Group’s Lyor Cohen are rarely mentioned or talked about.
While it may be true that few aspiring musicians will reach the top of the charts, there are hundreds of thousands of music jobs available. Some are for performers, some for teachers, and some for support staff for musicians and performers.
To describe the hierarchy of a record company, it’s best to start at the top. up a major record label…