Re: [ARSCLIST] Sony, BMG and the health of the music biz

[Bob Olhsson <olh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>From Tom Fine: "...The idea is that a wide variety of 
deep-catalog content, if made constantly available in a medium that costs
little to distribute (ie digital downloads) will, in sum, be profitable over
time. The key is over time." 

Let's not forget the major labels have only just come out from under a cloud
that left who will own what very much up in the air. I understand a huge
problem has been determining what royalties are involved and even the actual
ownership of masters. Contrary to what one reads, royalty agreements and
master ownership have always been all over the map. Another issue has been
an appropriate file format so that everything doesn't need to be re-encoded
every year or so.

I have no doubt that the future of recorded music catalogs is precisely this
but I don't think it's quite as easy to accomplish as it sounds. I'm sure
the folks involved want to set everything up once correctly rather than have
it remain an endless work in progress that never really becomes profitable.


Bob Olhsson Audio Mastery, Nashville TN
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