Posts by Grace Dalley
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The positive side is that the restructuring of the business side of the audio arts in recent years has made it a lot easier for artists to get paid.
Hallelujah for that! I'm pleased to hear it.
I have been urging the Scandanavian model (guarenteed minimum wage for artists after you've established a corpus (not just writers) with 'an opportunity' to pay greater tax if you hit the big times (I'd certainly go along with that) or the Irish model - your income/royalties are tax-free (up to -I think- senior academic level income - it's been a while since I was conversant with these matters, like the early 1990s) for* all *ANZ artists.
Sounds like a great scheme. Might even raise NZ's productivity!! Certainly more than mining National Parks :-)
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@Samuel Scott
"a)you have to get your music our there or you(r) brain will explode..."Yep. Applies to most works of art - which is why any kind of artist can be held over a barrel.
I work in the visual arts, and I can so identify with both these points. It's such a pity so many people who are brilliant in their own creative field are so poorly or patchily remunerated. A lot of us will do it for love, up to a point, but we need to eat and pay the rent just like anyone else.
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Thanks, Russell, Samuel, Simon, that's all very interesting.
Of course I understand there are overheads and marketing, it's just when I hear figures like iTunes taking an 85% cut, and recoupment
is then extracted from the artist's royalty stream and they don't get paid royalties until it is recovered, which for most acts signed to majors is never.
...I wonder why most artists bother. And if it has to be this way? Obviously there are good options out there, like BandCamp and CDBaby and Amplifier. Could they ever get a dominant market share, I wonder.
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It excludes two important bits of data for a start: publishing mechanicals (which is a positive to the act if they are writers); and an allowance for recoupment (which for may acts means the figures quoted as returns are about as relevant as flight data for the tooth fairy).
Sorry, I'm just a layperson, could you explain what these terms mean?
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Giovanni, Sacha, which bits has Information is Beautiful got wrong? There are a lot of figures on that page. I would very much like to know the correct figures (and where you got them from). And I note that Information is Beautiful is a UK site using UK figures, which may well differ from ours.
But I guess the important thing is the big picture. Which artists are getting a good deal from online music stores, and why?
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You'd think that online music sales would be more financially rewarding for artists than traditional music sales involving a physical product such as a CD, record or tape. Unfortunately, that's mostly not how it works. Information is Beautiful has statistics and a graph.
I was interested to see Georg from Sigur Ros plugging Gogoyoko, a direct-to-fans music download store. I hope it's a big success, because most of us want artists to be properly rewarded for their work.
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Yay Emma, well done on the Metro thing!
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they say that no apology can be better than half an apology,
Sorry?
Meaning: if you give a partial apology (eg: "I'm sorry you were offended"; or, "I'm sorry, but you have to understand...."), you can actually make things worse. If you follow the link I gave, this idea is explained in detail.
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The Perfect Apology has some brilliant examples, of both good and execrable apologies. Famous apologies are here. And they say that no apology can be better than half an apology, which I think is very true.
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Don't panic, Graham! It's just that you're spot on about news. When I have a holiday away from 'civilisation' I always think I'll need to catch up on important developments when I get back...only to find that the names and details may have changed, but the 'news' is the same old same old violent death and manufactured outrage.
Important things happen all the time, of course. It's just you don't usually see them in the news. Or if you do, it's too late to do anything.