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All Your Artist Are Belong to Us

January 29, 2006 at 06:53 |

I’ve previously written about disintermediating the music labels (also here and here). Disintermediation would allow the artist to retain more control and more value – all of the intermediate roles being outsourced each for the best possible price. A new service has launched in beta that fills one of those roles: Tunecore takes the artist’s music and gets it online (eg. iTunes), taking only an upload fee and a fee for file storage. Apple now provides production hardware and software (Macs and Garageband), the DRM, the marketing and distribution (iTunes), and also the listening experience (iTunes, iPod, family room).


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3 Responses to “All Your Artist Are Belong to Us”


  1. March 18th, 2006 at 02:56

    Hello Rob,

    Thanks for writing about us. You’re quite right, one of our central goals is the empowerment of the artist, providing more direct channels for distribution and promotion and helping the natural disintermediation (I’m going to start using that word now, thank you!) of the music industry predicated upon the new role of the Internet and digital file transmission and replication.

    It’s nice to find a copyright lawyer that understands our aims. Jeff Price (our CEO), Gary Burke (CTO) and I all worked at eMusic with Bob Kohn and others back in the 1990s, learning and even helping shape the way people conceive of this industry. Our board of directors has George Howard, who lectures on copyright law down at Tulane University.

    Thanks for your interest, and if you or any of your readers have any questions, feel free to drop me an email.

    –Peter

    Peter Wells
    Chief Operating Officer
    TuneCore.com
    peter@tunecore.com