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Re: Samples and looping
Hey Anders!
Thanks for your opinion. Here's how I see it.
"If you make 100 000$ on remiastereing and reselling a tune I have composed and recorded should you have all the money??"
Well.... as I understand, your statement assumes that making 100 000$ out of reselling tunes is easy. But is it? With yesterday's
technology it was a serious enterprise - not only you had to sort out legal issues, you had to actually set up physical media production,
hire people to make cover art, print it out, deliver it to the shops, then advertise and make people come and buy. It's a hell lot of work with
lots of risk. This is what a profession of a salesman has been for all human history.
With today's technology it is even less feasible. Selling files is an absurd business model and no matter how much mp3 shops swear at people
by calling them pirates and criminals, nobody wants to pay for air - nobody wants to pay for files.
So this reselling scenario is really not as realistic as you might think. In fact, I have yet to see when this happens. Most shops would prefer to
pay the artist so that he delivers his material to them first anyway - it would be beneficial to them. If not - the artist would get a lot of exposure
thanks to the shop's advertising if it works out at all. Lots of people would come to the artist's show or if he is not performing - pay him for music
to be written for films, games, events, etc.
Louigi.
