Actually there's probably more than enough money to go around, once the idea
comes about that there's more music out there than the majors represent.
Let's face it, in times of old would Britney have sold 23 million albums?
Today would the Beatles have sold 23 million albums? It depends on what's
being hyped, doesn't it? If we start talking about indies going million
sellers then we'd be talking about something. And then there's probably
some money in it, as Mr. Jobs seems to argue against.

Yeah, what's needed is an all ecompassing distribution method and yes, just
as certainly, it doesn't include all the majors anymore. After all, since
they aren't signing up new talent, they don't any longer have the strangle
hold on new talent, and they have a specific amount of time that their
copyrights still hold. The beginning of the end for the majors, and I
daresay, the beginning of music as artists. A true beginning of musicians
as artists. No contracts and no patrons. Everybody gets to say what they
want.

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Roger W. Norman
SirMusic Studio
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"Justin Ulysses Morse" wrote in message
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Roger W. Norman wrote:

"Justin Ulysses Morse" wrote in message
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The trick to making this thing profitable will have to be cutting out
the middle-men, or at least reducing the cut that goes to the middle
men.

So you'd relegate Apple to an Indie label distribution house? You can't
cut
out the middleman on Bruce Springsteen or Little Richard unless they've
recouped their rights to the songs, as in the Eagles members thing about
their songs. So if you bypass the majors, you don't have major artists,
or
you have catalog that is old and been through the "another format" wars
so
much that people no longer want to purchase. Makes no sense to me to
even
view the problem that way.

What about new artists who haven't gotten themselves entangled with a
label yet? Couldn't they become "major artists"? And I wasn't
necessarily suggesting that Apple specifically cut the labels out. Why
couldn't the labels cut Apple out? The point is there isn't enough
money to go around when you have this many interested parties. But
there are still a whole lot of interested parties that are essentially
dead weight.

ulysses