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If this could work for an arbitrary number of artists sharing the same subsidiary, sounds like a business opportunity.
by choppaface 12y ago
If this could work for an arbitrary number of artists sharing the same subsidiary, sounds like a business opportunity.
- jsprogrammer 12y agoLike a record label?
- Terr_ 12y agoMaybe... Record Label is-to Bank, as this thing is-to Credit Union? Label Union? I dunno.
- yellowapple 12y agoArtistic Union has a nice ring to it.
- pgeorgi 12y agoAs in "United Artists"? Check their history :)
- walterbell 12y agoThat epic story deserves its own movie :) http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Artists http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Artists
- zackmorris 12y agoI was just thinking that this is reason 10,000 that artists, designers, developers etc need a guild. Getting them all together under a subsidiary would serve the same purpose. Perhaps a subsidiary of subsidiaries so that as each is fined/sued/shut down, they can go bankrupt without harming the core. There was a quote in a documentary called Four Horsemen I believe that said "the rich discovered that the poor were honest" and used that against them to contrive an infinitude of ways of ripping them off. For example bankruptcy is just one of many legal tools to a corporation but is a last resort for individuals, so corporate power grows over time disproportionately like a latch that catches profits but lets losses slip through. It would be nice to see some of the same legal avenues readily available to the little guy.
- holri 12y agoSomething like C3S? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Commons_Collecting_Society https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Commons_Collecting_So...
- peteretep 12y agoWasn't this partially CD Baby's model for getting artists on to the iTunes store?
- jacquesm 12y agoCollective rights management is one of the charter missions of the RIAA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_rights_management http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_rights_management