Record label

“Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.” This is what John Ortberg had to say about grit and the effect it has on people and the world. When giving the TED Talk, “The Key to Success? Grit”, Angela Lee Duckworth shared something similar, “...One characteristic emerged as a significant predictor of success. It wasn't social intelligence, it wasn't good looks, physical health, and it wasn't IQ: It was grit.” Duckworth’s insightful words showed me that grit is more…

what a gentleman in the documentary said, which was somewhere along the lines of how the artists and record labels should have adapted and adjusted to the new technology instead of fighting it. I strongly agree with that statement mainly because of the fact that after Napster was created, there was no stopping this new way to share and download free music. I look at it like this, artists and record companies could sit around and mope and spend millions of dollars on attempting to stop this or…

about the recording, distribution, and marketing processes. As such, Polyphonic also does not own the master recordings for their artists. However, they have the right to use the copyright during the 10 years for which the artists are signed to the label. One of the biggest successes with this model is that artists have much more freedom to decide how they produce their music and how their music is marketed, thus appealing to more artists. However, one of the failures of this model, in terms of…

society(PRS) and mechanical copyright protection society. Record companies tend to spend thousands to tens of thousands of artists products through distributing, marketing, promoting and producing and make all their money from the sale of the artist 's product. By dealing out loans to artists all of the expenses mentioned earlier are payed back in royalties which make a profit. However this is a high risk business as more often the not record labels fail to make any money of the product worked…

wide-spread opinion that file-sharing has had deleterious influence on the music industry. On closer inspection, there is little evidence to substantiate this claim though. Firstly, most artists apparently do not have long-term contracts with any major record company, nor do they receive generous remuneration from radio stations. In fact, for many aspiring musicians uploading their music free of charge may, indeed, prove advantageous, providing avenues for exposure and publicity they crave.…

Record companies are taking different approaches at stopping it. A few have gone as far as tracking down sources of pirating and suing the people they found to be behind it. For example, “The Recording Industry Association of America this month fired off 569 "pre-litigation settlement letters" to college students whom had been suspected of pirating music”(Rampell, 2008). These record companies believe that downloading music from the internet…

accrue more revenue. One big issue with this is that it makes music files easily available to the general public to a point where they are able to illegally obtain these files for free without getting direct permissions to do so from the artist or record label causing the artist to lose money. Although it is widely believed by the general public that recording artists are instant millionaires, statistics reveal that it is actually quite the opposite. Artists’ royalties have been, and are…

They then normally work as associates with law firms already associated with the entertainment industry, right until they could work their way up to partner. Valued clients range from movie studios, television networks, independent authors, record labels, publishing companies, public radio stations, actors, bands, etc. Entertainment attorneys are accessible to help clients through any kind of…

building steam in their city of Detroit over the past couple months due to the success and popularity of their first song, “Back to Back.” So much steam had been built that the heads of their hometown’s own Motown Records reached out to discuss the possibility of adding the group to their record label. William peeked outside the window, “It’s here!” The Funky Fruit exited the recording studio and made their way to the cab. “Hello, sir. 2648 West Grand Boulevard is the destination.” Mo stated…

the community had 3 half cabs, a full P.A system and two mics donated to our cause. I bought some basic recording gear and we made a demo. Showed everyone in school. Posted things about our band everywhere. Soon after we gained the attention of a record label. Giddy with excitement we practiced away our nights. Driving the one hundred and fifty miles to where the studio was located, trying to figure out what our band name would be and how we 'd introduce…