{"id":19328,"date":"2013-11-17T14:15:40","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T14:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=19328"},"modified":"2017-10-24T10:55:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T10:55:36","slug":"crowd-funding-hits-the-right-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/culture\/crowd-funding-hits-the-right-notes","title":{"rendered":"Crowd-funding hits the right notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Is this the way to save the music industry?<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_19329\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 480px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/ArtistShare-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19329\" alt=\"ArtistShare is a crowd-funded record label\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/ArtistShare-1.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"312\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Record label ArtistShare operates a crowd-funding business model. Image credit Alex Blake<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In an age of declining CD sales and illegal file sharing, some musicians are turning to new ways of plying their trade.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the subject of a forthcoming public talk at Cardiff University\u2019s Boyd Lecture Theatre. Dr Justin Williams of the University of Bristol will focus on jazz musician Maria Schneider and her work with record label\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artistshare.com\/\">ArtistShare<\/a>, which allows fans to fund musicians and be rewarded in return.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArtistShare is pretty much questioning why the industry takes such a large cut,\u201d he explains, pointing out that bands signed to the independent label can be paid up to 80% of the revenue they make, as opposed to around 10% with a major label after cost deductions.<\/p>\n<p>This and more will be discussed at the talk on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/calendar\/render?eid=Z3YwNGVwbWQ4YmFxbmE2ZWUzN2R0YWZiN28ga2VsbHlqYUBjYXJkaWZmLmFjLnVr&amp;ctz=Europe\/London&amp;pli=1&amp;sf=true&amp;output=xml\">3 December at 4.30pm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y9WarpOsvnE[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p><em>A BBC News feature on Maria Schneider and ArtistShare, explaining how the record label operates<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this the way to save the music industry?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[3216,3209,3214,3207,3208,3217,1959,3211,3215,3210,1030,3213,3212],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.9 - 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