How do artists get paid by

	posted by Peter on Saturday June 21 2008 @ 08:20AM PDT
	I would like to know who submitted the info for my album to this company (it isn't listed in the companies that cdbaby submitted my music to through the digital distribution deal), and how it will benefit all the artists on there. Or does it only benefit the people swapping the music? Our music and/or info is being used as corporate website fodder... The site is: http://www.swapacd.com My album info is on there, even though I don't actually have a physical CD for sale at this time (digital only). It seems that they get their info from allmusic guide. Couldn't find any relevant info on the website, so any help would be appreciated. Anyone else have opinions on this? Peter http://cdbaby.com/cd/pstone7

	by Paolo on Saturday June 28 2008 @ 06:42AM PDT [ reply | parent ]
	Try to search the owner of this web site by a domain tool like whois.domaintools.com and you can easily find the info about it. (Telephone, address and other info to contact them). http://cdbaby.com/cd/musilosophy3 http://howtoplaythepiano.org/

	by Clare Burrows on Monday June 30 2008 @ 12:32AM PDT [ reply | parent ]
	It doesn't look like the artist gets paid on the resell of the CD -- the 49 cent charge for the "swap". It's money for the owner of the web site.

by Peter on Monday June 30 2008 @ 03:43AM PDT [ reply | parent ] That's what I thought, but I wasn't sure. So this company is exploiting our music for financial gain. No surprise there...

by Sigh on Monday June 30 2008 @ 10:10AM PDT [ reply | parent ] Incorrect. The site allows users to trade physical CDs, similar to how individuals buy and sell used CDs to and from record stores. It's perfectly legal. There are similar sites for people who like to swap paperbacks, DVDs, video games, etc. If you pull up your digital-only album, you'll see that it's marked "not available for swap"... which makes sense, because no physical copies of it exist. Nobody is ripping you off; please tune the paranoia down a notch.

	by Caveat: on Saturday July 05 2008 @ 08:10AM PDT [ reply | parent ]
	As long as no one's *keeping a copy* when they swap CDs it's legal. The second someone keeps a copy then trades the original for another original *then* they're ripping off the artists. So, there's that negative to places like that, for sure.

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