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Piracy simracy, this is the real threat to the record biz that technology
allows:

Threat?
It's been an avenue many artists have used all along!

Musicians with ArtistShare pay upfront for an album's production
costs. They also pay Mr. Camelio a fee to create and maintain the
Web
site (about $5,000) as well as 15 percent of the gross proceeds.
Other
than that, they receive all revenue.

This isn't necessarily such a great deal since all of the production,
promotion, music licensing and sales efforts are left up to the artist!
The main thing record labels do is promoting, publicizing and selling
recordings. Somebody's got to do it and the less known an artist is, the
more difficult and expensive it is to do. Another very tangible benefit from
being on a recognized label is the amountof live performance fees one can
ask.

Until somebody such as ArtistShare raises an unknown artist to having an
international profile, we are comparing apples to oranges.


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