Shafted ARTist -know your enemy

Amanda Palmer had some great success recently with the spontaneous twitter concerts organised in local parks with hundreds of fans showing up to hear her perform.
The success of these shows raised up many critics of the potential for others to repeat these results with some excellent discussion taking place because of it.
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Another example of famous artists who are realising how labels short change them of royalties and are making some noise about it.
This type of case is notoriously difficult to prove even though many musicians at least have an inkling that it is taking place.
Best of luck to Cher as she attacks this.
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via Techdirt

Here at Shafted ARTist we spend a lot of time reporting on the bad stuff.

So today I found something different.

Hope it made you smile.