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Does anyone use My Space to promote their music?

Have you seen any benefits from it?

What do you think of it?

i personally really like it. my band has a page and its really good for promo and for finding out about other bands

My space music is brilliant.

Other bands seem to make bonds and do advertising for each other. I think it's brilliant.

I like that it encourages community as opposed to bands being competitive as well

I've been wondering this also. I'm thinking about grabbing one, but I don't know if it'd be worth the time.

only good thing about myspace

myspace is where i found out about alot of my favourite bands, so i love it

I would advise to anyone thinking of putting anything on there to read the terms and conditions VERY carefully, because those ARE legally binding.

What exactly do you mean? What specific terms ?

By displaying or publishing ("posting" any Content, messages, text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, profiles, works of authorship, or any other materials (collectively, "Content" on or through the Services, you hereby grant to MySpace.com, a non-exclusive, fully-paid and royalty-free, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense through unlimited levels of sublicensees) to use, copy, modify, adapt, translate, publicly perform, publicly display, store, reproduce, transmit, and distribute such Content on and through the Services.

lol

So does that mean they own you and your music?

they own anything you post on there... so yea, your music

i use myspace MAINLY to find out about bands...i love it cause you find out about gigs first usually...which is handy

and i've found loads of cool bands through it that have looked at my music tastes and decided to see if i would like them...which i think is really cool...cause i lvoe finding new bands

i also know for a fact it has helped a local band in the area (Bady Cole) cause they can tell people about gigs, so they get more people there

Originally posted by Df02
By displaying or publishing ("posting" any Content, messages, text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, profiles, works of authorship, or any other materials (collectively, "Content" on or through the Services, you hereby grant to MySpace.com, a non-exclusive, fully-paid and royalty-free, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense through unlimited levels of sublicensees) to use, copy, modify, adapt, translate, publicly perform, publicly display, store, reproduce, transmit, and distribute such Content on and through the Services.

lol

What if you take it off after putting it on?

well once you put it on there and agree to the liscence they own the rights to that song... take it off and they still do.

also, there's another part saying they can change the licence after you've agree'd to it..

Yep.

Not really the sort of thing you want.

So hang on. They are saying when you put your music on their website they can make a band and play your music claiming its theirs?

no, they cant claim it's theirs, they just own the rights to it... so they can make a band and play it without having to pay you royalties etc.

Originally posted by Df02
no, they cant claim it's theirs, they just own the rights to it... so they can make a band and play it without having to pay you royalties etc.

F u* ck them. That's insane. They should not be allowed to do that.

Originally posted by papabeard
So does that mean they own you and your music?
Not exactly.I think.Bands like Anthrax have a MySpace account,and they were out long before there was any Internet,let alone MySpace.

Originally posted by Slay
Not exactly.I think.Bands like Anthrax have a MySpace account,and they were out long before there was any Internet,let alone MySpace.

Forget that though. What about new bands with new material!

they're screwed

Bands with MySpace profiles aren't losing anything by putting themselves up on there. It's free promotion, tracks aren't made available for download, and should a band's track get thrown onto a compilation album or CD, they've made arrangements to where they'll get a cut.

It's not the horror story everyone's making it out to be. TONS of established bands and record labels are on there, and that wouldn't be the case if MySpace were to take full control of the bands music, merely by setting up an account, especially given the unofficial band profiles, hosting music and pictures, without consent no less. Those people aren't held responsible.

alot of my old friends have their bands there.

Originally posted by BlackSunshine
alot of my old friends have their bands there.

Why are they old friends?

I have not uploaded any songs yet, and now I wont be, do they own any rights to your name or anything else other than the music?

myspace are now about to start making the most of this clause in the agreement

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6112009.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn