Sure-fire ways to move toward self-employment, quit your job and live happily ever after.
Video of most of this presentation:
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/961379
81. Magnatune:
Creative Commons & Boing Boing ->
The Inquirer ->
Fark ->
Slashdot ->
USA today / NPR ->
New York Times ->
BBC / Le Monde /
Die Zeit / Nikkei Times
82. Magnatune story angles:
Fair use & Creative Commons
Label embraces Sharing
Biz model in Peer to Peer reality
Piracy used as a promotion tool
Indie musicians abandoning labels
Not suing our customers
Musicians actually getting paid
The big money is in music licensing
Major labels are Evil
iTunes has it wrong
Successful entrepreneur tries again
Linux vs Microsoft == Magnatune vs Major Labels
88. They say:
“On Jamendo artists
allow anyone to
download and share
their music. It's free,
legal and unlimited.”
89. I say:
“Download tons of
music from artists who
don’t want to make
money”
90.
91. Magnatune says:
“We are not evil”
“We work directly with independent musicians world-
wide to give you downloads of MP3s and perfect-quality
WAV files. We never work with major labels, and our
musicians always get 50%.You can listen to every album in
its entirety before buying or becoming a member. “
119. This presentation can be downloaded
from:
http://slideshare.net/johnbuckman
Contact me at:
john@magnatune.com
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Creative Commons by-sa 3.0