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    Peter Jenner, Secretary General of the International Music Managers Forum thinks so;



    Big labels are f*cked, and DRM is dead

    Interview Few people know the music industry better than Peter Jenner. Pink Floyd's first manager, who subsequently managed Syd Barrett's solo career, Jenner has also looked after T.Rex, The Clash, Ian Dury, Disposable Heroes and Billy Bragg - who he manages today. He's also secretary general of the International Music Managers Forum.

    And he doesn't pull his punches.

    The major four music labels today are "f*cked", he says. Digital music pricing has been a scam where the consumer pays for manufacturing, distribution, and does all the work - and still has to pay more. Labels should outsource everything except finance and licensing.

    But he's also optimistic that for almost everyone else - indie labels, musicians, songwriters and budding entrepreneurs - as well as network providers - the future's going to be pretty bright. The Big Four know that the DRM era is nearly over - and within two or three years, he predicts, "most countries" in the world will have a blanket licensing regime where we exchange music freely, for a couple of quid a month.

    In the future, he also suggests, artists, co-ops and managers will raise their own investment on behalf of artists - and pick and choose their marketing teams.


    Jenner is organising a conference in London on November 15 to discuss these issues. Billed as an "Urgent Blue Sky Debate", for once a music event may live up to its billing. Earlier this year, France almost voted to legalise P2P and bring in a blanket license - the necessary stepping stone to the future.

    While Jenner elaborated on these in a report for MusicTank recently - it's only available to the public for a fee. So we were delighted when he dropped by Vulture Central yesterday to lift the lid on the business. Strong language follows.
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  • #2
    Hmm a music tax (sorry fee) so we can trade music. **** no!

    I will pay a reasonable fee for music I want and not to help some hack who couldn't sing there way out of a shower. How do the most popular artists get their fair share without some sort of insane tracking mechanism?

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    • #3
      You know, fast food restaurants have figured it all out. There is a price where the consumer will just say to heck with it and purchase the product. If they can sell a $6 lunch, record companies can sell a $6 CD. People will buy it and everyone should be happy with that. That is, if the cocaine snorting lowlives weren't such greedy slimeballs. People just don't want to pay through the nose, and certainly should not have to for the sake of lowlife recording execs.

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      • #4
        The problem is everything at the moment is centred around the record companies when in fact it should be the artists. They get even less money from selling songs on iTunes, Napster, etc than they do on CD's when it should be the other way around. The sooner we get rid of these middle men the better.
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        • #5
          REcord comapnies aren't dumb. Sooner or later they'll be out of the equation when groups sell directly to the fans via websites and don't have a contract with the record company.
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          • #6
            Originally posted by The PIT
            REcord comapnies aren't dumb.
            If that's true then they have a funny way of showing it
            When you own your own business you only have to work half a day. You can do anything you want with the other twelve hours.

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