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Jamison Young on How Musicians Can Benefit From Creative Commons

13:13 | Kiruba Shankar | Jul 13th, 2007 5:59pm |

Jamison Young is a full-time artist who has refused to sign up with big record labels. Instead, he believes in giving away his music for free using Creative Commons, and that has surprisingly helped him sell more records. Now, this may sound contradictory but Jamison says that by giving away your music for free downloads, it vastly increases the number of people who listen to your music and they in turn refer to their friends. This spreads word about the album and quite a few of them buy the album off the store shelves. This is actually a good technique to give a fighting chance against the most established artists.

Jamison has written, sung, produced and marketed his own album, called Shifting Sands of the Blue Car, the music for which is freely available for download on his website and at MySpace.

Jamison is an Australian now living Europe. Over the past year, he has performed in Australia, France, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Thailand, Switzerland and the U.S.

Jamison launched a new project called Hungry Artists Feed Hungry People, with portion of the sales proceeds going to help poor people in third world countries.

In Conversation With John Buckman, CEO of Magnatune

10:35 | Kiruba Shankar | Jun 25th, 2007 |

John Buckman is a serial entrepreneur, a musician, a marketeer and an open media evengelist, but he’s better known as the CEO of Magnatune, an indpendent, profitable online record label whose tagline closely matches that of Google’s: “We are not evil.”
Should Apple License the DRM for its Digital Music?

16:04 | Phil Leigh | Feb 28th, 2007 |

On February 10th, Paul Kedrosky wrote an editorial for The Wall Street Journal in which he questioned Steve Jobs’ claims that DRM-free music distribution is in the best interests of the record labels. He feels that it is a big risk for the labels and that Apple should instead ...
Online Music Sales Without DRM?

18:43 | Phil Leigh | Feb 22nd, 2007 |

Steve Jobs recently stirred up the music world by encouraging the record labels to sell music without DRM. To get an independent opinion on the concept, we talked with Mike Goodman, the manager of digital entertainment services at market research firm The Yankee Group.
How College Students Can Legitimately Get Free Music

13:21 | Phil Leigh | Feb 1st, 2007 |

The major record labels would like to combat piracy on college campuses via peer-to-peer networks. Ruckus Network has been authorized by major record labels to offer a catalog of nearly 2.5 million tracks for free to anyone with a dot-edu email address. Mike Bebel, Ruckus CEO, discusses these ...
AOL Unveils Updated Online Audio Site

07:00 | editor | Aug 29th, 2006 |

MENLO PARK, August 29, 2006 (PodTech News) — AOL’s parent company Time Warner is betting that a library of more than 2.5 million audio tracks will entice users to fork over $9.95 per month for unlimited on-demand streaming and downloading of songs and videos. The move is another step in AOL’s transformation from an online access provider to a full service entertainment destination. PodTech News spoke with AOL MusicNow’s Amit Shafrir.
BET CEO Lee Says Media is a Wireless Business

08:44 | editor | Apr 6th, 2006 |

Las Vegas, NV, April 6, 2006 (PodTech News) – The convergence of entertainment and cell phones has been predicted for so long that the notion it has arrived seems trite. But the technology infrastructure to wed mobile telephony with IP networks has arrived and the last piece to the puzzle ...
PodTech News: Independent Music Business Model = Freedom

07:44 | Admin | Dec 28th, 2005 |

Independent music business model is about freedom. The Internet is the enabling technology that will unleash a new wave of innovation from independent music artists. Traditional labels have to come to grips with the fact that the Internet is a distribution outlet that can not be controlled.

Many of ...