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From kcronin <fiatluxury@yahoo.com>
Subject Re: audities-digest V1 #84 (10 msgs)
Date Thu, 20 Feb 2003 15:02:11 -0800 (PST)

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alright then...what 25 of you will ante up $200 to the
kitty, for some deserving soul to be awarded $5000 to
use as s/he sees fit, for the good of all, and god
knows how we determine who that soul is, among us?  Do
we run it like a venture capital company, and
"investors" can pick and choose the products they
support, or they just add money to broker types and
expect return? Me, if we're getting all co-op about
it, I'd rather be able to pick my languishing artists
to support.   I wish I knew more about this model for
me to actually suggest something useful, but i'm
afraid i just don't.  It certainly is an intriguing
notion.  And I'm sure I'd rather get no money back
than "split equally" with the artist him/herself  -
isn't that the very corporate notion we'd be trying to
overthrow?

In one ideal future where artists are the customers of
studios and distributors, there may be a place for
cash on the barrelhead co-op backers like us. 
Patrons, even.  I'm going to have to sort out my
notion of patrons as stodgy old-money fine-art
supportin' brie-and-table-cracker-eatin' fuddy dudds
from my notions of your Brave New Music Industry
Model, KC.  Now someone burst my soapbox bubble and
point out why this won't work, please, before i start
getting notions.

--kelly
np: jenifer jackson






--- "Bowman, KC" <kcbowman@oaklandnet.com> wrote:
> 
> -----------------------
> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 11:23:47 -0800 (PST)
> From: kcronin <fiatluxury@yahoo.com>
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Re: The Co-op Utopian plan for Owsley's
> next record
> Message-ID:
> <20030220192347.89900.qmail@web21410.mail.yahoo.com>
> 
> sounds good - i'm in.  does this mean that, after
> i've
> bought a partnership interest in this cd, that i
> have
> to buy it again when it's released to see any
> profit?
> or are you positing this on a purely altruistic
> basis?
> -----------------------
> 
> No, it would be run just like the co-op bakery down
> the street. I really
> don't know the finer details regarding "cooperative
> business
> structure"...but I get that it's a cooperatively
> owned venture splitting the
> profits equally. 
> 
> 


=====
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