Tag: Warners
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Dua Lipa’s Levitating ASS: aka how not to copy a song
Artikal Sound System · 03 Live Your Life Future Nostalgia is apparently copying a song from 2017….eh Dua Lipa? Sound familiar? Artikal Sound System’s ‘Live Your Life’ is identical to Levitating, and was released on an EP in 2017 – called funnily enough ‘Smoke and Mirrors’. As Luxxury points out in his video, the choruses…
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Artists shouldn’t love corporate copyright
Every once in a while I bump into ‘artists’ (and I use that term loosely, quite often they are corporate shills, indie chancers or pretty new to the industry) who defend copyright laws, extensions and corporates. Happened again recently…What I find strange is that the enforcers of copyright (corporates, labels, media companies) don’t actually love…
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Google’s ‘blogocide’ deletes music blogs
(created with FAT’s great Google Tag script – love the ZEVS style one too) Apparently Google has deleted entirely several music blogs entirely for infringement of copyright – even the ones that posted tracks with permission from the record label, artists or management. I commented on this Guardian article, thought it bore repeating (and extending)…
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Music Industry 101; or why the Xmas Factor Rage matters
Right I’m frankly surprised at some of the responses to the whole Rage Against The Machine for Xmas #1 campaign (803,000 members and counting!) – they seem to be unaware of the current state of the music industry and why stuff like this matters. 1) “It’s Simon Cowell’s record company” – not strictly true. Syco…
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Thinking of signing to a major?
Here’s an eye-opening look by now-indie band Too Much Joy at what majors (in this case our favourite friend, Warners) pay their bands and how they treat ones that are not ‘recouped’ (which doesn’t mean they lost money; they get paid many times, remember?) and how they can’t honestly account what they have earned. Really,…