Using My Space for Music
MySpace is a great site to promote indie music through and it really works. You get to meet new people and they get to listen to your music. Some executives in the record industry won’t admit it but they are using MySpace to find new acts. MySpace is rated the number one social networking site in the world.
There has been confusion about posting music on MySpace. Many artists are concerned that they give up their music rights by putting their files on MySpace. Of course, this leads to various rumors that spread on the internet and in the artist community like wildfire.
MySpace cannot steal your music or put their own copyright on your music. It’s totally a social networking site which just happens to specialize in music promotions. That’s all the site is about.. Promoting music. You can grant rights of your music to another music label and the people at MySpace wouldn’t care one bit. They make their money through good old fashioned exposure.
When you post your music on MySpace, you grant them a NON-EXCLUSIVE CLAUSE. Now within that clause is a royalty free (You don’t get paid any royalties) worldwide license to use your music through the service. There is nothing in the clause that assigns EXCLUSIVE rights.
So MySpace is okay and it’s cool to post your music there. You don’t have anything to worry about.
MySpace is indeed a good place to share.I have had an account a while ago and was getting many friend requests from Musicians.Promoting their music in MySpace is just a start line , they need exposure , they need to be known , they need the commercial to get to the point where they can follow up a career in music.
Of course not all of them enjoy the success but it is a good way to start.
Promoting indie music on MySpace is indeed a great way and works for sure.
The problem with MySpace is that everyone is in it and so it tends to take something away from the exclusivity that artists are supposed to enjoy if they are there too. One of the things that makes us follow an artist is the fact that there’s the sense that we cannot reach him. Artists appeal to us in part because we do not have full access to them and so MySpace being sort of an equalizer places the artist at the level of everyone else thereby making him lose that mistique.