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

["Steven C. Barr" <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "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.
Well, if all else should fail...I probably have 2% (+/-) of the total North
American catalog of sound recordings...here in my half-vast shellac
archive...?!

Steven C. Barr