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Subvert – Collectively owned music marketplace

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226 points cloudfudge | 2 comments | 18 Oct 24 16:17 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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bee_rider ◴[18 Oct 24 18:01 UTC] No.41881890[source]▶
A successor to bandcamp would be really nice. I think it is hard to determine if a site will become one, because it is largely about network effect—Bandcamp had enough users (customers and artists) that it was, like, worthwhile to give them your credit card info…

Totally tangential and probably revealing that I have absolutely no understanding of the music creation ecosystem and process, but is there room for, like, an online collaboration system? Like a Unity asset store for samples or something? Allow people to remix and then handle the pay out automatically when songs get bought?

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1. pdntspa ◴[18 Oct 24 18:45 UTC] No.41882296[source]▶
The "Unity Asset Store" is effectively Splice

But the licensing doesn't do pay outs, with sampling you pay once and its yours to use as you see fit. As it should be, we don't need anyone else sticking their hands out.

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2. bee_rider ◴[18 Oct 24 19:26 UTC] No.41882627[source]▶
In general, imo, if somebody contributes usefully to a project they should get paid in line with their contribution.

The flat rate makes sense from an era when tracking that sort of stuff was difficult, but I dunno, it seems like it ought to be possible to track this sort of stuff automatically nowadays.