+ - Using Twitter instead of the RIAA: Zoe Keating-> 3
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NewYorkCountryLawyer
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "A great case study about a new business model for the music industry: How cellist Zoe Keating (@zoecello on Twitter), seen and heard here jamming while pregnant with other musicians on the street in Austin Texas, used Twitter — instead of a Big 4 record label — to develop her fan base. It's a remarkable illustration of the fact that the RIAA are dinosaurs, on the road to irrelevancy. The historic need of an 'unsigned' artist to win a 'contract' with a 'label', as a precondition to success, is no more."
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TYPO -- sorry (Score:3, Informative)
The link for @zoecello should be http://twitter.com/zoecello [twitter.com]
rather than http://twitter.com.zoecello/ [twitter.com.zoecello]
Sorry
Found her through CleverNickName (Score:1)
I found out about Zoe because Wil Wheaton went off on NPR about a year ago in a tweet because they ganked one of her tunes for ATC and didn't attribute.
I bought her mp3's from Amazon.
so I guess copyright infringement can lead to sales.
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I guess copyright infringement can lead to sales
Well let's put it this way. The life blood of a musician's ability to make a living is for his or her music to get heard.