You Own the Music. But Who Owns the Pipes?

Making a Scene Presents - You Own the Music. But Who Owns the Pipes?For most of the modern independent music movement, we have spent a lot of time telling artists to own their masters, control their publishing, keep their copyrights, and avoid signing contracts that turn a lifetime of creative work into somebody else’s asset. That advice still matters because ownership is the foundation of almost every serious attempt to build long-term income from music. The problem is that the music business has changed enough that owning the song is no longer the entire independence question. An artist can own every note they recorded and still depend on a long chain of companies to distribute it, collect money from it, communicate with fans, license it, store it, sell tickets around it, process payments, and make it visible to the outside world. http://www.makingascene.org