From Aaron S Michelson Sent Sun, Apr 25th 1999, 22:19
From Aaron S Michelson Sent Sun, Apr 25th 1999, 22:19
Excerpts from mail: 25-Apr-99 Re: (idm) @ places to put M.. by Andrew xxxx@xxxx.xx.xxx > Saw a few postings on Slashdot a while back about mp3.com trying to get > certain artists to sign contracts, something to the effect of mp3.com > owning the songs or something like that. In Michael Robertson's defense, here's an excerpt from an interview I did that should clear things up: Bleepbloop: So this is completely free for artists? Michael: Absolutely. We don't charge artists any startup fees or monthly fees, if they do sell CDs through our system the contract says they get half the money right off the top. We tried to come up with as clean an implementation as we possibly can. Everything that we do is focusing on the artists. For example, the contract that we have artists sign gives artists all of the power because we give artists something that they don't typically have, that is 'at will' termination. So at any time they can get out of our contract, and when they get out of our contract, they leave with everything that they came with. And ultimately that's the most viable thing you can have in a contract, because if you're not getting value, you can just leave. Aaron