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AskMen.com Craig Mazin	5 Things You Didn't Know About Record Deals The basic fact underlying recording contracts is that their terms tilt heavily towards the benefit of the labels, not the artists. Many of the terms border on swindling.
Salon.com June 14, 2000 Courtney Love	Courtney Love does the math The controversial singer takes on record label profits, Napster and "sucka VCs."
AskMen.com Kevin Young	How To: Start A Record Label More than ever, smaller record labels are wielding serious clout in the music industry. Here are some tips to success in this industry.
Reason January 2004 Nick Gillespie	Welcome Back, Napster There's a special reason to be happy that Napster, the notorious outlaw file-sharing system that took a long, court-ordered hiatus, has returned as a major-label-backed enterprise offering single-track downloads for 99 cents. It's the freedom not to pay for songs you don't want.
Salon.com December 2, 1999 Emily Vander Veer	Singing the MP3 blues Indie musicians find online music distributors every bit as greedy as the recording industry they aim to replace.
The Motley Fool May 20, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Music's 2010 Overture If traditional radio and the major record labels want to matter in five years, they better make some changes.
PC Magazine November 14, 2007 Dan Costa	The Music Wants to Be Free More musicians are using the Net to cut the record labels out of the loop. It isn't just unknown bands any-more, but the megastars the labels depend on. And there isn't a damn thing the industry can do about it.
Fast Company July 1, 2007 Cora Daniels	Fast Talk: Coffee Maker Brews Fans Ken Lombard is signing up artists for Starbucks's own record label, Hear Music, which will use the company's stores as a significant distribution channel. The first artist to commit: Paul McCartney.
The Motley Fool June 19, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	The RIAA's Win Is Yet Another Loss Another courtroom "victory" makes the music suits even more like Kobe Bryant.
AskMen.com Steve Richer	How To: Land A Record Deal But the key to making this happen is landing a record contract. So now that you've learned to sing and formed a band, it's time for you to get the exposure you deserve.
Salon.com September 6, 2001 Anthony York	Courtney Love's big Sacramento adventure The singer and actress takes her campaign against the record industry to the California legislature...
Salon.com April 23, 2002 Damien Cave	Musician to Napster judge: Let my music go A 1960s-era recording artist says he can't get Sony to pay royalties, so his psychedelic pop might as well be free...
The Motley Fool December 16, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Throw This Stock Away Warner Music Group is part of an archaic industry that has been suffering in recent years. Is it time to get rid of this stock?
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Fast Company Evie Nagy	How Converse Supports Musicians Without The Brand-Sponsor Ick Factor Fast Company talked to Converse CMO Geoff Cotrill about the ideas behind Rubber Tracks, and why it benefits the brand to work with unknown artists.
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The Motley Fool October 10, 2007 Alyce Lomax	The Music Industry's Downward Spiral Another musician has gone from turntables to turning the tables on the music industry. Nine Inch Nails Trent Reznor announces that the band has liberated itself from record labels.
Salon.com December 19, 2001 Eric Boehlert	Music industry in the pits! Record sales are down, no one's seeing concerts, no one's advertising on radio and the stars are revolting...
Salon.com October 2, 2002 Joshua Fineberg	Classical music: Why bother? A composer and Harvard professor wonders whether his craft has been left behind by a world with no patience for Great Art.
Salon.com September 27, 1999 David Rubien	The Artist you better not call Prince After nearly two decades as rock royalty, his inner flame still burns hot purple -- rain or shine.
Home Theater June 9, 2008	Major Label Expands to Survive The Universal Music Group will now manage classical artists and book concerts, moving into territory previously off-limits to most record labels.
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The Motley Fool July 5, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Stocks That Will Rock Your World Some stocks that sound good today will sound even better in the future. As the broadband migration advances, the music industry faces a total makeover. Instead of EMI and Sony dominating, think Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo!
Fast Company October 2000 John Ellis	Digital Matters "That explosion you just heard is the music business." Smaller memory technology, peer-to-peer networking, and the wireless web are coming together to turn the business of music inside out...
BusinessWeek October 29, 2007 Jon Fine	Leaving Record Labels Behind Musicians are looking for an alternative. Their managers may be the answer.
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Entrepreneur January 2010 Jason Ankeny	Art & Commerce Poster art is expanding beyond concert promotion into small-business arenas as companies break away from conventional marketing.
Fast Company Ayana Byrd	The Photo Doctor Is In And He's Changing The Look Of Hip-Hop For Ian Van Dommelen, a seismic shift in the music industry has meant a major readjustment to how he runs his company. Photo Doctor is broadening its purview to include online banners, website design, and Instagram ads.
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Home Theater March 6, 2008	Musicians Demand Copyright Cash Little of the millions of dollars in settlements major record labels have collected in copyright-infringement suits has been shared with recording artists.
Wired February 2003 Charles C. Mann	The Year The Music Dies Record labels are under attack from all sides -- file sharers and performers, even equipment manufacturers and good old-fashioned customers -- and it's killing them. A moment of silence, please.
AskMen.com May 14, 2003 Matthew Simpson	Top 10: Best-Selling Albums Of All Time A look at the top 10 best-selling albums of all time in the United States, as of 2003.
Fast Company Tyler Hayes	In Lieu Of Royalties, Music Apps Are Feeding Starving Musicians With Data More and more streaming music services aren't just serving consumers audio, they're also becoming data companies serving up information to artists and rights holders.
AskMen.com Kevin Young	How To: Start A Digital Music Label You'd have to be crazy to start a music label now, right? Not according to three co-owners of Montreal based, all-digital dance/club rock label.
PC Magazine November 28, 2007 Eileen Travers	Digital Music: Changing the Game Musicians are bypassing record labels, but the industry is fighting back.
Wired November 2004 Hilary Rosen	How I Learned to Love Larry She was the champion of the music industry. He was the voice of the people. It was a deathmatch made in heaven, but they found common ground... Done right, copyrights can inspire the next digital revolution...
The Motley Fool October 2, 2007 Alyce Lomax	Radiohead's Sonic Boom Radiohead will allow its fans to pay whatever they like for its newest album, available on the Web, giving fans the opportunity to cut out the middleman and deal directly with their favorite bands. Is this the future of music?
Salon.com July 24, 2000 Eric Boehlert	The key man myth: Why Santana and Whitney are staying put Friendship and loyalty? Not in the record industry, where key dollars -- not key men -- make the merch move.
IEEE Spectrum July 2007 Tekla S. Perry	Imagine There's No DRM... I Wonder if You Can Even rock stars rejoice when a major record company takes the locks off digital music.
Salon.com August 7, 2000 Scott Rosenberg	But isn't it against the law? How Napster turns otherwise upstanding citizens into recidivist outlaws -- and what the music industry can do to save itself.
Wired November 2004 Thomas Goetz	Sample the Future Rip, mix, burn. Swap till you drop. The music cops can't do a thing - it's 100 percent legal, licensed by the bands. The Wired CD, copyrighted for the 21st century.
PC Magazine September 28, 2005 John C. Dvorak	The New Music Download Battle The RIAA is not happy with the cost of songs in iTunes and wants a variable-priced solution.
Information Today December 2005 Barbara Quint	Up Front with Barbara Quint: Disintermediation Marches On These days, online operations continue to put pressure on traditional structures and seek to eliminate the distance between producer and consumer or between author and reader.
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The Motley Fool December 11, 2006 Alyce Lomax	Recording Industry Gets It? Not Industries that don't present themselves as particularly friendly to customers and suppliers are tasty candidates for disruption, and that's been abundantly clear regarding the recording industry for years now.
The Motley Fool March 12, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Sing a New Song If the playing field has been leveled, why are online music sites so out of tune? The recording industry continues to move toward digital distribution. Yet the Internet has also given unheard musicians a platform for getting noticed, while technology has made home recording affordable.
Salon.com May 26, 2000 Meisha Rosenberg	The procrastinator's way I succumbed to my embarrassing addiction to writers' self-help books and wound up with a dog and a purple fountain pen.
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