Selling Music for a Song (07 Dec 2004)

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Selling Music for a Song (07 Dec 2004)
There are other ways digital music will make money for its artists. One of the most sophisticated is an artist-authorized equivalent of the concert tapes that fans have always made, usually on cassettes. A new service, eMusicLive, will make a recording at a live concert and then sell it on a CD or USB key drive to departing patrons, minutes after the last encore—a far more enjoyable take-away than the traditional band-tour T-shirt. For more and more musicians, the fruits of new technologies may get the rent paid better than traditional recording contracts

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