[78-L] copyright

[David Lennick]

This is precisely what is putting me out of business. As for YouTube, I have 
heard some pretty decent audio, and about 95% horrible garbage..and this is 
what a new generation now thinks old 78s sound like. Let's not ignore the large 
percentage of the world that doesn't want to download or wouldn't know how, as 
well as a very sizable and sensible group that would like to hear music in the 
real world, in the car, in the living room, and not on computer speakers or 
things stuck in their ears.

dl

Kristjan Saag wrote:
> --
> The CD is becoming obsolete - no matter the number of record stores in 
> Southern California.
> So why not try digital online distribution instead?
> With no physical distribution/ distributor involved you should be able to 
> sell any quantity of files without trouble, as far as you don't sell from 
> the US.
> What we're seeing, at the moment, is an immense increase of back catalogue 
> material resurfacing as files, recordings that haven't been available for 
> years. New vintage material is also added, because it's cheap to do it. 
> Releasing an album is not a huge project anymore and you can even chose 
> alternative formats: digital EP's and singles for minor projects.
> Ways of distribution and retail business have changed dramatically in very 
> short time: many artists, in all categories of music, arrange for download 
> possibilities from their websites. They don't even bother to offer 
> remainders of their CDs. Takes too much time, costs too much.
> And take a look at Youtube where thousands of 78s are presented together 
> with moving images of turntables spinning the records, giving the old 
> recordings new audiences (and creating an interest in the phonograph 
> technique itself). Or where they are accompanied with tastefully arranged 
> photos of the artists or the subject matter of the song etc. Youtube is what 
> the record companies should've done years ago: present music in a new and 
> attractive package. Those record companies who'll learn from this will 
> survive.
> So, as an alternative to expensive booklets, jewel boxes, physical CDs and a 
> distributor who'll be bust in a year or two anyway: start a virtual record 
> label, do a nice online presentation of your material and present quality 
> restored music. If you want to present an ambitious booklet: create a 
> digital one and print it on demand, or attach it as a pdf file to the sound 
> files. And you can keep your product in stock as long as there is 
> electricity. Whereas Amazon UK would drop your product after a year or two 
> if it doesn't sell.
> Kristjan 
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