edX - BerkleeX: Introduction to the Music Business

This definitely deserves zippy! :D Thanks for sharing.

Amazing Stuff! For this about Berklee works fine.
It's almost a documentary. I learned a lot.

I really like when 'John Kellogg' teaches how record labels are dishonest and steal artists, of course a lord like him doesn't say using these words.
Remember that old artists have already demanded that the discs be numbered, nevertheless the companies refused, in order to hide numbers.

Some of his own points in this video.

"Differences between a recording sale versus a third-party sale license:
__Production, manufacturing, distribution, marketing, they invested on all that, so artist get only 13 to 16 %."
__"But what Record Companies do on digital downloads?
__They basically deliver that sound recordings to 'Amazon', 'iTunes', 'Spotify', they don't have all those costs associated with printing the cds and covers, each one costs only 6 cents, then transporting cds to other cities and countries."

"So should a record company apply a sale royalty of 13 to 16 % for a digital Download???"
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Did you understand, when thieves themselves arrest you in a giant chain, they will convince you that there are many costs from production, manufacturing, graphic artist to final cd cover, dvd, bluray, hard marketing on magazines, tvs, physical distribution by trucks, boats and plane crossing cities and other countries, and that the result is that you only receive up to 16%.
But if it is distributed to sites that sells digital media, they only have to upload these files, and this has a low cost, less than 98%, then why not you the artist does not receive between 75 to 85%, by the way all these record companies do not exist without you, the proper artist.
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The tips he gives us on this video is: 'D.I.Y' = [do it yourself]
"__You really have to pay recording costs?"
"__Do you have to have an engineer?
"__Do you have to manufactor a Cd to be released?
"__What about marketing, if you can create virus videos in 'Youtube' for promotion.

They themselves, Rec. Co. ,publish stories saying that a big studio produces better using professional giant tables, and that a computer generates noises, this way the result does not sounds good.
Believe it, it only depends on the good music of each artist, and your Lap- Top does even better and you can achieve absurd success without mixing in L.A. They are afraid of modern computers, the same way they were against Cd recorders in the past 90s decade.

Wake up!

hello Rotten Surfer please post more of this berklee stoff... especially the vocal and singing ones and songwriting works. tnx bro