M.A.P.S.

Another stab at the MAPS concept. Thrilling stuff, I can't figure out why a huge, organized resistance didn't form around me. Apparently I was really serious about this at some point. Nobody else showed any interest in what I was writing so I shelved it after the preface. That's okay, it sounds like the usual gack. Like I'm trying to sell something.

Preface

The beginning of the twenty-first century is witnessing the advent of the most remarkable combination of technological, social and economic conditions that has ever occurred in the history of recorded music. Musicians, composers, songwriters, the consumers of recorded music and the array of industries and professionals that serve them have an opportunity to reach larger global audiences, provide access to exponentially greater diversity of music, and offer their customers a huge variety of ways to access and add to the value of their music collection.

But the handful of massive media conglomerates that dominate the conventional recorded music industry have not only failed to take advantage of this opportunity: they are actively and openly in opposition to musicians and consumers realizing these incredible advantages that are available to them, wholly through existing technologies. This opposition is being waged in international legislatures, in the courts, by the police, and through technology.

Ironically, by refusing to harness the rising tide of emerging technologies out of fear of losing control of their established markets, the recording industry giants have opened this window of opportunity to a group of artists who receive the least benefit from the conventional recording industry, creating an incalculable threat to their dominance of the commercial music markets. This potential community is composed of individual musicians and groups who own the copyrights to their own compositions and recorded works.

This white paper proposes a business structure to create a resource essential to allowing independent recording artists to exploit this opportunity. The model presented has the potential to transform the entire landscape of economics and access for the musicians who recognize and and take advantage of these unprecedented opportunities.

this is what is up with this.