[Sussex] [offtopic] Only Music business would try to get away with this

[Steven Dobson]

Desmond/Andrew

On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 08:26 +0100, Desmond Armstrong wrote:
> Rather than all this suing, of which, the only  benefit is in creating 
> rich lawyers, why not take example from the 'Arctic Monkies'.
> Make some downloads free using, open source methods of course.
> Then sell some CDs.
> All in all a very successfull model.

Check out Steadman (http://www.steadmanband.com/) The put all their work
up under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license.  They make their
money the old fashioned way (pre record Companies) by playing gigs (and
from licensing their work to film Companies etc).

Steve

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