I just went through some weird stuff with my performing rights organization that I thought I’d share just in case you’re a musician in a similar boat wanting to give your music away for non-commercial uses but expecting commercial users to pay the fees one would expect them to pay any other songwriter.
| Tags » | collective, commercial, commons, creative, free, give, jamendo, musician, non-commercial, organization, organizations, performing, pro, pros, rights, socan, societies, society, songwriter |
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Guess I'll have to burn my membership card, too.
In what would appear to be a concerted attempt by me to sever all ties with the established Canadian music industry, I’ve decided to not renew my membership in the Songwriters Association of Canada. It’s nothing personal, it just wasn’t working out for me. I tried it for a year & I just wasn’t getting my money’s worth out of it.
| Tags » | association, bay, canada, canadian, cancon, commons, creative, dan, date, demo, fees, hill, industry, lapse, lobbyists, magazine, membership, music, pirate, riaa, sac, songwriters |
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"Mailboxes" by Ken Yuel
So I got a bit of a wake-up call last week when a self-confirmed shameless self-promoter, who had personally advised me to be just like them, unsubscribed from my mailing list. I thought to myself, “Jeez, perhaps I’m being a little too aggressive.”
| Tags » | email, list, mail, mailin, policy, self-promotion, shame, shameless, unsubscribe, update |
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Yeah, not that kind of fan
I know it’s a bit odd to hear of a musician closing a fan page, but that’s just what I’m doing.
| Tags » | facebook, fan, fans, friends, friendship, list, metallica, musician, page, statistics |
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Dear Richard(s),
I received an email yesterday from someone who was less than thrilled about the video for my new song “You Chose to be a Dick,” and I thought I should take a quick moment to clarify things a bit.
| Tags » | backwoods, bumpkin, chaucer, chose, dick, dicks, hick, illiterate, inbred, jerk, letter, open, penis, pogo, richard, richards, rick, shakespeare, snickering, stick, you |
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Hi, I'm Steve Chatterton, a singer/songwriter of a collection of tunes about superheroes, fireflies, communicable diseases and such.
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