I've learned over the years that a good company culture actually makes a difference, as long as it's real, not some artificially created one. Of all possible values in your culture, I've found that 'fun' was the most important one. From that, dedication and shared responsibility follow naturally.
Furthermore, I think you're on the right track by keeping your team small, adopting an agile practice to stay focused. The challenge with the latter is, you have to be really honest to see what works, and what doesn't. Retrospectives are more important than anything else.
Oh, and be a catalyst for change in the rest of your organisation.
No, I'm saying you don't have to pay royalties to Charlie Parker's family when you decide to use one of his songs or make a 'best of' album. You do of course have to make a (legal / financial) arrangement with the owner of the recordings.
As an artist, I would like to have someone take care of the commercial part of selling records. The music in my head is not that easily converted into a shiny disc / crispy Ogg data! It takes a lot of time and money. I can't ask the bank for a loan for a musical recording. That's what record companies are for. Like I said: there are lots of independent record companies out there. They also suffer from music piracy.
What I meant to say was: if you want to use the big record-empires' business practices as an excuse for piracy, you should at least be so honest to support the smaller labels by buying their products!
If you really want to listen to music without paying for it, there's always radio. Don't tell me commercial radio doesn't play what you like, because indeed it doesn't: it plays what the advertisers' audience likes. They are paying for the music.
Bottom line is: if you want good music, pay for it, one way or another.
You are absolutely right. I'm not saying that nobody is prepared to pay, reality shows me the majority of P2P users are not, even if it would only cost them $10/month.
Yes, you've bought the right to play it as often as you like, but only in private. As soon as you play it in public you are in violation of copyright. Read the small print alongside the edge of the CD. Sharing on P2P is (rightfully) considered public broadcasting.
Please, as a musician, I would like to get something in return for providing you with music you enjoy. I know this is not what the big record companies are after, but there are (a lot) more record companies out there who actually try to do some honest business.
There have been initiatives to launch pay-per-download services, with no success. Don't try to fool yourself folks! It's not the record companies that block successful services (I mean, there is such thing as free enterprise...), it's the fact that you can get it for free elsewhere that people don't want to pay for downloadable music.
You're absolutely right in your Euro-sceptical view. It's the same situation over here in the Netherlands (I especially agree on your remarks on 'political correctness').
However, Britain is NOT wise. It may SEEM wise, but the true reason for being kicked out of the European Monetary Union in the first place, and not joining it again in the 90s was because they're just plain conservative.
And indeed, as someone pointed out, the Pound is heavily over-valuated. Currency markets are built on sentiments....
As if broadband made us happy. Anyway, maybe they would have if they didn't need to rebuild their country from scratch while facing more than 25 years of economic blockade and American military threat.......
All Americans believe is that they brought the world nothing than good. I know there are millions of people who rightfully disagree.
As your government proclaimed: food is not a basic human right (look it up in the UN resolutions...)
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I've learned over the years that a good company culture actually makes a difference, as long as it's real, not some artificially created one. Of all possible values in your culture, I've found that 'fun' was the most important one. From that, dedication and shared responsibility follow naturally.
Furthermore, I think you're on the right track by keeping your team small, adopting an agile practice to stay focused. The challenge with the latter is, you have to be really honest to see what works, and what doesn't. Retrospectives are more important than anything else.
Oh, and be a catalyst for change in the rest of your organisation.
How come it takes PC manufacturers more than 3 years to copy the original thing?
No, I'm saying you don't have to pay royalties to Charlie Parker's family when you decide to use one of his songs or make a 'best of' album.
You do of course have to make a (legal / financial) arrangement with the owner of the recordings.
As an artist, I would like to have someone take care of the commercial part of selling records. The music in my head is not that easily converted into a shiny disc / crispy Ogg data! It takes a lot of time and money. I can't ask the bank for a loan for a musical recording. That's what record companies are for.
Like I said: there are lots of independent record companies out there. They also suffer from music piracy.
What I meant to say was: if you want to use the big record-empires' business practices as an excuse for piracy, you should at least be so honest to support the smaller labels by buying their products!
If you really want to listen to music without paying for it, there's always radio. Don't tell me commercial radio doesn't play what you like, because indeed it doesn't: it plays what the advertisers' audience likes. They are paying for the music.
Bottom line is: if you want good music, pay for it, one way or another.
You are absolutely right. I'm not saying that nobody is prepared to pay, reality shows me the majority of P2P users are not, even if it would only cost them $10/month.
Nobody. The distribution / record company doesn't have to pay royalties, nor do you.
Yes, you've bought the right to play it as often as you like, but only in private. As soon as you play it in public you are in violation of copyright. Read the small print alongside the edge of the CD. Sharing on P2P is (rightfully) considered public broadcasting.
Please, as a musician, I would like to get something in return for providing you with music you enjoy. I know this is not what the big record companies are after, but there are (a lot) more record companies out there who actually try to do some honest business.
There have been initiatives to launch pay-per-download services, with no success. Don't try to fool yourself folks! It's not the record companies that block successful services (I mean, there is such thing as free enterprise...), it's the fact that you can get it for free elsewhere that people don't want to pay for downloadable music.
You're absolutely right in your Euro-sceptical view. It's the same situation over here in the Netherlands (I especially agree on your remarks on 'political correctness').
However, Britain is NOT wise. It may SEEM wise, but the true reason for being kicked out of the European Monetary Union in the first place, and not joining it again in the 90s was because they're just plain conservative.
And indeed, as someone pointed out, the Pound is heavily over-valuated. Currency markets are built on sentiments....
As if broadband made us happy. Anyway, maybe they would have if they didn't need to rebuild their country from scratch while facing more than 25 years of economic blockade and American military threat.......
All Americans believe is that they brought the world nothing than good. I know there are millions of people who rightfully disagree.
As your government proclaimed: food is not a basic human right (look it up in the UN resolutions...)