So, a bit of backstory about my CD on Amazon.
My old band, Paddy Gone Wild, has a CD on Amazon, but I don't get any money from it any more. So, years ago, I made a compilation album from tunes I'd played on the CD, and put it on Amazon as "Gregory Mahan and Friends" via Createspace.
I hadn't signed any copyright or royalty agreements with the band, so this is all legit. Due to the way copyright law works, if it's a compilation work, and there's no other agreement:
http://copyright.universityofcalifornia.edu/ownership/joint-works.html
Fast forward to 2014: Createspace gets out of the CD/MP3 business and takes down my CD. No biggie. I only earned a tiny bit of cash from it every year, and I didn't miss it.
Fast forward to a couple of days ago: The fact that I sold a couple of CD's on omegle, but didn't get any cash for them, makes me reconsider having my own CD up somewhere for sale. A quick web search tells me that CD Baby is probably a good route to go. I already had all the tunes, and it was easy to make some album art from one of my Ireland honeymoon pictures.
Today: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/gregorymahan
This new CD has more tunes than the original "Gregory Mahan and Friends", since I was able to add a couple of solo tunes, as well as some tunes from my Houston band, Echoes of Ireland. I set the title to "electronic only" because really, who buys physical cds these days?
So, just in case someone was interested.
It should show up on iTunes, Amazon, etc eventually once it goes through the vetting process.
My old band, Paddy Gone Wild, has a CD on Amazon, but I don't get any money from it any more. So, years ago, I made a compilation album from tunes I'd played on the CD, and put it on Amazon as "Gregory Mahan and Friends" via Createspace.
I hadn't signed any copyright or royalty agreements with the band, so this is all legit. Due to the way copyright law works, if it's a compilation work, and there's no other agreement:
http://copyright.universityofcalifornia.edu/ownership/joint-works.html
So, PGW can continue to sell their CD and keep the dough. I can sell any tune from that CD that I played on, because I'm a contributing author.Authors own the work jointly and equally, unless the authors make an agreement otherwise. Each joint author has the right to exercise any or all of the exclusive rights inherent in the joint work.
Fast forward to 2014: Createspace gets out of the CD/MP3 business and takes down my CD. No biggie. I only earned a tiny bit of cash from it every year, and I didn't miss it.
Fast forward to a couple of days ago: The fact that I sold a couple of CD's on omegle, but didn't get any cash for them, makes me reconsider having my own CD up somewhere for sale. A quick web search tells me that CD Baby is probably a good route to go. I already had all the tunes, and it was easy to make some album art from one of my Ireland honeymoon pictures.
Today: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/gregorymahan
This new CD has more tunes than the original "Gregory Mahan and Friends", since I was able to add a couple of solo tunes, as well as some tunes from my Houston band, Echoes of Ireland. I set the title to "electronic only" because really, who buys physical cds these days?
So, just in case someone was interested.
It should show up on iTunes, Amazon, etc eventually once it goes through the vetting process.
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