If you really believe in free-music then you just have to bite the built and provide it and ask for donations just like everybody else (OSS, Public Radio, etc). You just have to write off anybody below 25, and assume that anyone over 25 will kick down a few bills a year for their music. (I do for NRP, and KEXP).
You run the service non-profit, and give the $ to the artists. If you track downloads per user you could ask the user how to divide the money (all user's downloads, all artists, specific artists, whatever). This does assume this service will be a central distribution point, or at least reference-count all distributed media. maybe a flaw.
Artists are responsible for their own marketing. That's the way it should be anyway. I believe that any entity that's responsible for both marketing and distribution will end up looking exactly like a record company.
Building a interest group that gets radio stations to play music from this service seems more "clean" if the group isn't affiliated Mw/ the service itself.
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If you really believe in free-music then you just have to bite the built and provide it and ask for donations just like everybody else (OSS, Public Radio, etc). You just have to write off anybody below 25, and assume that anyone over 25 will kick down a few bills a year for their music. (I do for NRP, and KEXP).
You run the service non-profit, and give the $ to the artists. If you track downloads per user you could ask the user how to divide the money (all user's downloads, all artists, specific artists, whatever). This does assume this service will be a central distribution point, or at least reference-count all distributed media. maybe a flaw.
Artists are responsible for their own marketing. That's the way it should be anyway. I believe that any entity that's responsible for both marketing and distribution will end up looking exactly like a record company.
Building a interest group that gets radio stations to play music from this service seems more "clean" if the group isn't affiliated Mw/ the service itself.
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