TuneCore Live Webcast, Thursday, July 21st, 2:00PM ET : The Sky's The Limit? Musicians And The Cloud

By Guest | July 19, 2011

Amazon, Google, and Apple have recently announced their own versions of cloud

services, that promise to free up users' digital music collections by offering

easily-accessed storage space. What do Apple's iCloud and iMatch mean for the

independent musician? How do songwriters receive public performance royalties from

cloud-based service plays? And how does TuneCore fit in? TuneCore Founder/CEO Jeff

Price and Future of Music Coalition Deputy Director Casey Rae-Hunter will have a

live discussion to help make sense of a cloudy topic. This live chat will be

The conversation will explore a number of topics including:

-What opportunities do cloud services bring for independent artists?

-Do TuneCore Artists get to elect which of their songs and albums go into the iCloud?

-What are the differences between the Google, Amazon, and Apple services?

-Will Apple dominate the "cloud scene" ?

-Do musicians benefit from multiple cloud services? Or do more services hinder the

artist?

-How will Spotify's U.S. launch effect the digital market?

-TuneCore gives all artists access into the top digital music stores. How do they

negotiate on behalf of their DIY artists?

About Future of Music Coalition:

Future of Music Coalition (FMC) is a national non-profit education,

research and advocacy organization that seeks a bright future for

creators and listeners. FMC works towards this goal through continuous

interaction with its primary constituency -- musicians -- and in

collaboration with other creator/public interest groups.

About TuneCore:

TuneCore is the largest distributor and has one of the highest revenue-generating

music catalogs in the world: In the past two and a half years TuneCore Artists have

sold over 300 million songs via paid download or stream, grossing over $130 million

dollars in gross music sales and another $100 million in songwriter revenue.

TuneCore is a low, flat fee service that distributes music to iTunes, eMusic,

AmazonMP3, Nokia and many other major download and streaming sites while taking no

rights and no revenue from the sale of the music. Since its launch in 2006, TuneCore

has distributed tens of thousands of albums and millions of songs to iTunes and

other digital stores by Grammy winners and unsigned artists alike. TuneCore artists

include Drake, Beck, Jay-Z, Aretha Franklin, Keith Richards, Public Enemy, Nine Inch

Nails, MGM Studios, Bjork, Moby, High School Musical cast members, Starbucks and

tens of thousands more.

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