Yeah, I was speaking to Lungelo about the MySpace thing coming soon, but like Witnes says... in the rules and regulations of the site agreement, by accepting, you do sign an UNLIMITED, ETERNAL LICENSE to Fox Media, the owners of myspace, meaning they can do whatever they want with anything you put on your myspace site, cos strictly speaking you're only using a site that they own.
Our little project is based on the fact, that you still own your music, what we are going to be doing is have a site where your tracks or whole albums (your choice) are put up for sale and we take a small percentage, this does leave the marketing up to you though, for a little more we could take on some of the marketing responsibility.
We are intending promoting the brand as a whole through all available media channels and by staging events and through a**ociation to complimentary brands, so any specific artists promotion would be piggybacked onto already existing marketing, AT FIRST, later once the brand is established, it will be the platform for greater marketing exposure of artists.
Yo biz as to your questions... you wouldn't need to be a company to register with us, we would be constructing contracts to suit each agreement, with individuals, but if you do have a lil "label" or collective of artists and/or producers we will also have no problem with that, cos our prime objective is to promote and sell the music and possibly later the visual content you might put together.
we're not envisioning being a label which does production, we're more looking to be distributors, to cellphones and any other digital download medium. But ofcourse we will be helping artists reach a level of professionalism to make their product more sale-able, and we can direct artists to people who can help them in that respect.
As to the specifics of the marketing push, we're lookign at podcasts, television and print, but I don't want to say too much right now.
A major bebenfit for the artists is that what we're looking to do isn't happening in isolation, we're looking to come into existence as a part of a global digital distribution network with strong links to iTunes.
Its about putting what we've got, out to anybody whose interested anywhere in the world, without you having to be a slave to a major.
Is this grabbing anybody? But seriously we'd like some ideas about what you as artists, producers or just fans woudl like to see from a service like this.
