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Indie Musicians: Top 21 Music Licensing Companies

Share There are many legal requirements you should comply if you want to have a career in music: you need legal permission if you want to cover songs, you need to trademark your band name if you don’t want another band to use it, your performance contract, and many others.   If you want to [...]

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14 October 2010

Marion Isobel Marion Isobel

Redbox Kiosks Now Offering Video Game Rentals at $2/day

Share Redbox, the popular DVD rental kiosk provider, will begin renting out VIDEO GAMES for PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360 and Nintendo DS at their Kiosks around the U.S. this month. There hasn’t been any press release about this new service but Redbox’s website already has a section where we can search for games [...]

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13 October 2010

Chris Bauer Chris Bauer

Music News: Dido Sued by Astronaut Album Cover Star

Share Bruce McCandless II, the first astronaut to make an untied or untethered ‘free flight’ in space, is suing Dido over the cover art for her 2008 album ‘Safe Trip Home’ for using his picture without permission. The cover shows McCandless ‘free flying’ in space, around 320 meters away from the cargo bay of the [...]

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7 October 2010

Chris Bauer Chris Bauer

Indie Musicians: How to Copyright Music Online

Share Why Copyright My Music? If you see yourself as a serious musician (and I presume you do), you would be wise to register your original songs with the U.S. Copyright Office (if you reside outside of the U.S., skip to the section on International Copyright below). This will protect you in the event that [...]

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24 September 2010

Chris Bauer Chris Bauer

Tax Tips For Musicians

ShareChristopher Knab is an independent music business consultant based in Seattle, Washington. He is available for private consultations on promoting and marketing independent music, and can be reached at 206-282-6116 or by email at: Chris@Knab.com Musicians – you probably spend a lot of  money supporting your craft every year, paying for instruments and amps, photos [...]

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21 August 2010

Marion Isobel Marion Isobel

The Transformation of the Music Industry in the 21st Century

ShareThe Transformation of the Music Industry in the 21st Century by George Ziemann — August, 2010 A new school year is underway and it’s time to give all the college researchers something new to chew on. I’ve been studying the recording industry statistics for 8 years, a move which was prompted by the RIAA interfering [...]

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19 August 2010

james James Hill

Independent Record Labels: Record Labels and the Changing Times

ShareA lot has been written about the record labels and independent record labels over the last few years and if you’re like me who’s passionate about these topics,  chances are we’ve heard the same thing: That the music industry is doomed for extinction. They show us statistics of poor CD sales and tell us that [...]

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16 August 2010

james James Hill

CD Manufacturing: Major Record labels feeling the hit (but the indies are coming out strong!)

ShareThis article was written by Edward Christman and originally appeared in Billboard biz UPDATE: First Half 2010 Sales Recap: Lady Antebellum, UMG Lead The Way Lady Antebellum’s “Need You Now” was the top selling album in the U.S. in the first half of the year, as a familiar downward sales trend proved to be not [...]

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12 July 2010

james James Hill

How to Promote Your Indie Label

ShareBell Time Records – we have discovered quite a few ways to promote our independent record label, new released music and new artists. Having your business information available to your targeted audience is the main key. There has to be visibility! One of the best ways to make your business information visible and available, is [...]

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12 July 2010

james James Hill

Independent Records: Why Prince is right when he said the internet is over and done

ShareThis is a re-post from  Blancomusic What do you think. Is prince right? Is the internet over and done with? By now you’ll have had a good laugh at Prince, chortled righteously in disbelief at the latest mad-hatter outburst from his Purple Highness. In a statement that raised some interesting points, the most commonly snorted [...]

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12 July 2010

james James Hill

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