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Digital music: A question about music.download.com
A question about music.download.com
by BMN0T - 10/15/08 9:11 PMThis question relates to http://music.download.com - Download.com's mp3 site.
Just wondering how the whole thing works in terms of payment. It says at the Artist sign-up page that "CNET Networks, our customers, and our licensees shall not be required to make any payments with respect to material that you submit to our sites", but I notice some big-name artists have profile pages and music available on the site for free download (for example, Ice Cube is one of the currently featured artists). Surely these big artists would be expecting some payment for their music. Is CNET perhaps registered with ASCAP so that artists would get paid royalties from them if they are members of ASCAP (or one of ASCAP's international affiliates)?
It's all free...
by John.Wilkinson
- 10/21/08 8:12 PM
In reply to: A question about music.download.com by BMN0T
Some 'big-name' artists do decide to give select songs away, often to attract new listeners who will hopefully purchase future releases. In any case, the artists approach Cnet and post their music with the intention of it being freely available, no royalties attached. Every so often someone will upload copyrighted content which the artist does not wish to give away free of charge, in which case Cnet will immediately delete the content upon the copyright holder's request, but in most cases they are legitimate freebies.
Regards,
John
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