Songwriter Asks Fans To Invest In Her Music Career

British songwriter Woodstock Taylor is inviting fans to invest in her music as part of an innovative no-risk scheme by new music website Sellaband.com, where “believers” share in artists’ profits once a target figure is raised. Her invitation is working. Since she joined Sellaband after reading about it in a MySpace bulletin, twelve people from Mexico to Latvia have bought “futures” in Taylor after...

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Music Copyright Extension Denied

A UK Government-commissioned review has decided there will be no extension of how long copyright on sound recordings lasts. Campaigning artists had hoped rights would be extended to 95 years from the current 50, but an independent review will recommend the terms are not extended, a well-placed government source has disclosed. The decision means that recordings from the 1950s Rock ‘n Roll era will soon be open to free use, thus...

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