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Originally Posted by John Eppstein  Site makes money off advertising to pay royalties to artist, similar to radio. Advertising does not affect artist directly. (Unless they want to sell rights for commercials, same as now.)
As far as artists striking sponsorship deals with companies, that's been happening for tour support for decades, it's nothing new. I can't see companies wanting to do it for recording, at least not in a way that would be acceptable to the artist. Look at the Starbucks/Carly Simon fiasco......
OTOH, it might work for Kenny G...........  |
Totally agree with you, but that's not what ElgrinChris is talking about and it doesn't address a workable solution for all the artists who aren't tour-centric, and pure banner/site based advertising doesn't even begin to have the numbers to support/make-up the lost income from piracy.
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