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1. Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 15-Oct-2018 20:37:40 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

   • Ocean Man 🌊
   And blocSonic's unofficial affiliation with Chuck D has been a large part of our success. A lot of promising ventures (Music Manumit, RynoTheBearded, White Market Podcast, CCMA, The Free Music Contest, FCF, etc., etc., etc.) have stalled in large part because of the people coordination issue that comes with scale. Of course, Music Manumit pretty much split into blocSonic and Lorenzo's Music, but the others are just burnout projects, as far as I'm aware. Certainly I know Ryno personally, and he made $10s of thousands of dollars, but even Mississippi $10s of thousands of dollars over the course of years is not sustainable.
   • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 15-Oct-2018 20:33:22 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

     • Ocean Man 🌊
     I'm not sure to which one of those you were responding, since I discussed hosting and creating in separate posts. If you're interested in the music video aspect, I can reach reach out to https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3430436/ and see if he's got the bandwidth. He's one of the http://blocsonic.com owners with me. So far everything we've released has been CC, although I'm unsure if the upcoming Awesome Dre album will be. It'd be easy enough to make sure anything you worked on with us would be CC licensed. Our default was CC BY-NC-SA. Although I'd prefer it be CC BY-SA the old default was CC BY-NC-ND and I was able to get us to upgrade the license. Our musician contracts stipulate that they can pick CC BY-SA if we are releasing commercially, and CC BY if it's a non-commercial release. I spent two years working on this stuff basically full-time and aside from me joining blocSonic, really didn't see much come of it. To be successful, you either need someone hugely recognizable, a huge amount of time, or money...probably both. The FMA has been successful because of WFMU.
   • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Oct-2018 14:17:55 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

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     • Ocean Man 🌊
     @deadsuperhero I'm not sure if I need to @ you for you to see the responses or if it being in the thread is enough. Maybe you were just done.