Tuesday, 1 April 2014

Music Industry - Class Notes

Key terms

Distribution - Selling music to customers via Internet, iTunes, albums etc. Concerts 
Copyright - Protection against artists work, have to pay to own the music. Cannot be replicated
Royalties - When the company/artists get a % of the money made, eg. When an artists song is played on the radio the artist will get commission.
A&R (Artist & Repertoire) - part of the company that look for new music talent, middle man between artists and companies
Sampling - Using a piece or part of a song that has been used in another piece of media
Peer to peer - People who share music between each other
Major Record Label - A worldwide label that signs major well known artists, are horizontally and vertically intergrated enabling them to work more efficiently as they own each individual sectors of the industry which let's them work cheaper.
Subsidiary Label - labels within a major label, eg. Sycho who is within Sony
Independent Label - A label based in one country, gives artist freedom and let's them exlpore themselves as am artist.

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