nk_e wrote:I found it very informative. Thank you for taking the time!
Thanks for letting me know, good luck in your own ventures.daniel.sneed wrote:Thanx for sharing this extended experience.
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nk_e wrote:I found it very informative. Thank you for taking the time!
Thanks for letting me know, good luck in your own ventures.daniel.sneed wrote:Thanx for sharing this extended experience.
Thank you BKK for taking the time to do your post. It's very helpful.BKK-OZ wrote:Well, I hope my post was of some interest to you guys
SoundCloud has that nice easy-embedding feature that embeds a player automatically across many platforms and social media sites. So, very easy sharing. Also, people can download (if you permit that in your options) the same quality file as you uploaded, even WAV, etc. at any quality they allow.mhschmieder wrote:So, to summarize, it looks like BandCamp is a good way to go for finished product, and a nice and flexible alternative to CD Baby as you can set inconsistent prices that make sense for the material and length (e.g. an Interlude shouldn't cost the same as a Song).
Whereas, SoundCloud might be a better place to put interim versions, covers that you haven't cleared yet (since you aren't charging, it shouldn't matter?), and singles and excerpts vs. albums and complete works (operas etc.).
I don't know if it is still the one-stop cover-rights spot that it used to be, but the Harry Fox Agency (https://www.harryfox.com/) used to be where all that kind of rights stuff was handled by everyone I knew. They are a rights clearing house for people doing covers.mhschmieder wrote:and if I can find out how they deal with cover song copyrights,
Don't laugh at the HTML layout, but much of this article I wrote way, way back in 1995 still applies today (of course, the dollar amounts for physical royalties no longer apply...)mhschmieder wrote:It seems safe to go ahead with Soundcloud for my originals, at least. As long as I protect them first (one of the reasons I have stuck with DropBox so far, as I have text files in addition to audio files and include copyright information -- even though not officially registered -- for timestamp precedent).