The Business of a Recording Artist
You’re becoming serious about distributing your own recordings. You’ve heard all the horror stories about how artists are ripped off by the entertainment industry and have memorized Courtney Love’s wonderful speech to the Digital Hollywood online entertainment conference on May 16, 2000, “Courtney Love Does the Math” (http://salon.com/technology/feature/2000/06/14/love/):
Today I want to talk about piracy and music. What is piracy? Piracy is the act of stealing an artist’s work without any intention of paying for it. I’m not talking about Napster-type software.
I’m talking about major label recording contracts.
Frank Zappa and Janis Ian have also written or given talks in this vein, which you should be able to find ...
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