the web is the message music & the web

Christian Jung

No news: music business is in big trouble

IFPI Digital Music Report 2010

No news: the reason why music business is in big trouble

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Gerd Leonhardt: what EMI should do

http://www.mediafuturist.com/2010/02/wmg-20-my-unsolicited-advise-on-how-wmg-could-embrace-the-future.html

a complete, cutting-edge online platformopen licensing

flat-rate and bundlingmobile music applications

freemiumcrowd-sourcing new talent

drop on-going law-suitstalk to the music users

profit-sharing arrangementsdecentralize distribution effortsdata is the new gold - mine it

why the f*** the labels are not doing anything?

why are artists not doing it?

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if you’re an artist, you either like connecting or you don’t. if you like it, you’ll find every

possible creative way [...] to do it. if you’re a misanthrope, you’re

simply fucked.

if connecting and communicating is part your art, the web works well for you

the medium is the message

the web is the message

the web influences how the message is percieved

the web requires its own messages

authenticfrequentfree

some artists have those messagesothers don‘t

should any artist do it like Amanda Palmer and D.O.N.S.?

yes, and no.

why the music business is

struggling with the web

examples for authentic, frequent and free messages beyond twitter

Paper Doll

Morning Becomes EclecticKCRW Sessions

Paper Doll Live @ KCRW Sessions

instead of only creating new tools

we should also create new messages

thx