REM has released 11 new music videos under the free license Artistic License 2.0
The cult American rock band REM decided to release 11 new music videos in MP4 format under the free license Artistic License 2.0 . The announcement of this appeared a week ago in the popular blog O'Reilly Radar . In turn, Nat Torkington (Nat Torkington) emphasizes in his message that Alison Randall (Allison Randal) worked several years in a row on the Artistic License specifically for the Perl Foundation . It is noteworthy that Alison Randall is also the author of the same O'Reilly Radar.
It's no secret that the rapid development of the Internet and p2p-networks makes record companies and the music industry in general difficult times. For some performers, making music and its subsequent sale is no longer a super-profitable occupation as it was before, the popularity of performers decreases with time. REM is a good example.
Despite the fact that the team created in 1980 exists to this day, its commercial flourishing has remained far in the past. REM affairs began to limp after drummer Bill Berry left the band in 1997. After that, the group released albums: Up (1998), Reveal (2001) and Around the Sun (2004). The album of 2004 turned out to be commercially unsuccessful - Around the Sun as a whole received warm criticism, but did not get to the first positions of charts in the UK, the album REM for the first time since 1988 did not even get to US Top 10 (it was possible to reach only the 13 position) . A total of 2 million copies were sold worldwide and 232,000 copies in the US This is less than REM previously sold in the first week after the release of any album in the mid-1990s (this period represents the commercial peak of the group).
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For REM, this is a good attempt to build the success of their future studio album, which is scheduled to be released this year. Jimmy Guterman (Jimmy Guterman) in his article REM, Open Source, and Staying Alive When an Industry Shifts .
It's no secret that the rapid development of the Internet and p2p-networks makes record companies and the music industry in general difficult times. For some performers, making music and its subsequent sale is no longer a super-profitable occupation as it was before, the popularity of performers decreases with time. REM is a good example.
Despite the fact that the team created in 1980 exists to this day, its commercial flourishing has remained far in the past. REM affairs began to limp after drummer Bill Berry left the band in 1997. After that, the group released albums: Up (1998), Reveal (2001) and Around the Sun (2004). The album of 2004 turned out to be commercially unsuccessful - Around the Sun as a whole received warm criticism, but did not get to the first positions of charts in the UK, the album REM for the first time since 1988 did not even get to US Top 10 (it was possible to reach only the 13 position) . A total of 2 million copies were sold worldwide and 232,000 copies in the US This is less than REM previously sold in the first week after the release of any album in the mid-1990s (this period represents the commercial peak of the group).
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For REM, this is a good attempt to build the success of their future studio album, which is scheduled to be released this year. Jimmy Guterman (Jimmy Guterman) in his article REM, Open Source, and Staying Alive When an Industry Shifts .
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/20656/
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