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Contracts for artists & physical spaces.
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Jamison · Oslo (Norway) · Dec 17th, 2007 8:42 am · 14 votes · 1 comment
 
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Recently i was in Belgium, home of rights organization SABAM. It seems that the cost for use of music content is going up via the rights organizations, yet the interest in self published content for physical spaces is going down.

Venues funded by the government are often promoting published and label acts, while self published artists and bands are often asked to perform for free. This funding combined with a strict regulation for use of music content, creates difficult conditions for self publishing. What to do?

These contract ideas might give venues an incentive to publish more music created by self publishing bands and artists.

1)-Contract that the artist signs to tell the venue that the artist is not with rights organization and shall perform only original content at the venue.

2)-Contract that the artist signs that allows the venue to use the recorded music of that artist in that venue free of charge. It would be up to the artist to let the venue know if in the future the artist joined a rights organization.

Myspace and youtube do not pay for use of the artists or bands content, yet venues do. Venues are not beaming soap commercials above performers heads during the show.

tags: oslo norway education rights organization artist contract music art venue collection society ecology distribution


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I think it might be worth giving a description of what SABAM is, as well as a link to their site, for those readers who are not aware of this organisation and what it does.
Daniela Faris · Johannesburg (South Africa) · Dec 16th, 2007 5:57 am
your call: is this comment useful?
your take: useful lame
 


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