ArtistShare
ArtistShare is an American crowdfunding internet platform and at the same time an independent label that has emerged primarily in the jazz sector . The funds raised by fans allow direct financing of the artistic projects, but also public transparency about the production process and, in some cases, access to additional material by the artist. Established artists such as Jim Hall , Patrick Williams , Bob Brookmeyer , Ed Neumeister , Geoffrey Keezer , Rachel Z , Jane Ira Bloom or Ingrid Jensen have also connected with ArtistShare. The label's productions have so far received 6 Grammys.
history
Brian Camelio founded ArtistShare in 2000; his idea was based on the fact that fans would raise the financing costs for album productions in advance. Musicians were given the opportunity to finance their albums with the help of their fans. In exchange for their donations, they received exclusive insights into the creative process and could actively participate in it. At the same time, the resulting works were only sold on the Internet. These peculiarities also led to more favorable contract conditions for the artists.
ArtistShare started work in 2003; It is considered the first crowdfunding website for music and was understood as a completely new business model in which both the artist and the funding fans benefited and the relationship between artist and fans was strengthened and loyal. With the platform, which at the time was still operated under the term fan funding, ArtistShare not only enabled musicians to have a completely new form of label-independent financing, but also offered fans the opportunity to be involved in the creation process of a music album from the very beginning. When the European music financing platform SellaBand was founded in 2006, the term crowdfunding was used for the first time; these two pioneers were later followed by other platforms such as SliceThePie (2007), Indiegogo (2008) or - no longer limited to music productions - Kickstarter.com (2009). In 2010, with Startnext, mySherpas, Inkubato and Pling, the first four crowdfunding platforms were launched in Germany, followed by VisionBakery in early 2011. Unlike the successors, ArtistShare concentrated on the area of jazz and classical music.
In 2005, Maria Schneider's Concert in the Garden became the first phonogram in Grammy history to win this award without it being available in stores. The album, released on ArtistShare, was the first crowdfunded project.
Awards from productions of the label
After the Grammy for the Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album for Schneider's Concert in the Garden, Billy Childs won a Grammy the following year for the best instrumental composition Into the Light , which is included on his ArtistShare release Lyric .
In 2007 the album Simpático by Brian Lynch with Eddie Palmieri, also released on the label, received the Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album .
Maria Schneider won another Grammy in 2008 for “Best Instrumental Composition” with Cerulean Skies , a title from her production Sky Blue . In 2011, Billy Childs received a Grammy for best instrumental composition, The Path among the Trees, from his ArtistShare album Autumn: In Moving Pictures . In 2013, How About You for the ArtistShare production Centennial - Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans also received a Grammy in this category.
Patent dispute
On September 30, 2011, Kickstarter filed a declaratory action against ArtistShare as the holder of the basic patent US7885887 Methods and apparatuses for financing and marketing a creative work and its subsidiary FanFunded . KickStarter justified this with the fear of being the target of a possible patent infringement suit. In February 2012, ArtistShare contradicted Kickstarter's complaints that there had been no threat of patent infringement. In further explanations in the legal dispute it became clear that ArtistShare apparently cannot show that Kickstarter is infringing patents.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Don Heckman: Making fans a part of the inner circle . Los Angeles Times. February 10, 2008. Retrieved May 13, 2013.
- ↑ a b Can You Spare a Quarter? Crowdfunding Sites Turn Fans into Patrons of the Arts . Wharton Innovation and Entrepreneurship. December 8, 2010. Retrieved May 13, 2013.
- ↑ December 2, 2008: Addendum to recent Wired Article (Part II) Model Number 7: Fan Supported Label / Distribution , David Byrne's Journal, February 12, 2008
- ↑ ArtistShare - Featured Artists
- ↑ Alexandra Harzer. Success factors in crowdfunding. Ilmenau 2013 (PDF; 2.9 MB), p. 56
- ↑ Patrick Cole, ArtistShare taps Web, fans to earn its musicians money, Grammys , livemint.com, February 7, 2008
- ^ Steve Gordon, The Future of the Music Business: How to Succeed with the New Digital Technologies: a Guide for Artists and Entrepreneurs . backbeat books, 2005, ISBN 978-0-87930-844-5 , p. 234 (accessed May 13, 2013).
- ↑ Alexandra Harzer. Success factors in crowdfunding. Ilmenau 2013, p. 57
- ↑ Patent US7885887 : Methods and apparatuses for financing and marketing a creative work. Filed July 9, 2002 , published January 22, 2004 , applicant: ArtistShare, Inc., inventor: Brian Camelio.
- ↑ Sarah Jacobsson Purewal: Kickstarter Faces Patent Suit Over Funding Idea ( English ) In: PCWorld . October 5, 2011. Accessed 2013-13-05.
- ↑ Eriq Gardner: Hollywood Docket: Comedy Club Documentary Lawsuit; Michael Jordan vs. 1st Amendment ( English ) In: The Hollywood Reporter . February 16, 2012. Retrieved May 13, 2013.
- ^ "Memorandum of Law In Support of Defendants' Motion to Dismiss Plaintiff's Declaratory Judgment Complaint" filed by ArtistShare, Civil Action No. 11-cv-6909, 3 February 2012 ( English ) Scribd . February 16, 2012. Retrieved May 13, 2013.
- ↑ Crowdfunding Site Can't Show Kickstarter Infringes Law Technology News , February 22, 2013