Ruz-El wrote:
PenguinInBondage wrote:
just plain doug wrote:
Y'all want to get to know Gail better, right? Here's your chance to meet with her. In court. When she sues everyone mis-using the licence.
Cute.
All it takes is one copy to hit the 'net and "owning a license" is useless. If someone wants to send me $1,000 - I'll hand them back $900 of it and then they've only wasted $100 on a useless transaction!
And that one copy that hits the net will most likely come from a CD purchased direct from the ZFT and not one of these master discs. Let's face it, it's the age we live in.
If we as fans were interested in being distributors, we'd distribute music.
Here's the thing with kickstarter and indiegogo and crowd fund-raising. I've recently given to a project $125 with the reward being a music download and a T-Shirt. I gave because I want to see the end result happen. It would not be completely crazy for the ZFT to be able to get $250 for an exclusive T-Shirt and CD if they did a kickstarter type project to finish the Roxy film. $5000-$10,000 could get you a listening party in the UMRK. The potential rewards write themselves.
Instead, you pay $1000 to buy a pain in the ass.
So instead of the ZFT getting numerous $100 plus donations for a CD and what not via the kickstarter route, they'll get their usual $15 a disc and who knows how much from the licenses.
If they don't sell all the licenses is the Roxy project scrapped? The tone of the email was of a gun being put to the head of the fan. Support it or we kill the project!
Hello:
Long time Zappa fan, first post here.
I was excited and intrigued yesterday to receive the e mail about Roxy By Proxy and my enthusiasm immediately overtook rational thought.
It all seemed so unprecedented and exciting.
Then, upon clicking a link to the website, the idea took on the characteristics of a Chinese puzzle box with multiple layers. Each layer brings more puzzlement, distress and confusion than enthusiasm, which is the key ingredient for success of this type of project.
First and foremost, the average fan, like myself and possibly you, may not have access to that kind of cash. The winds of this economic climate are not blowing in our favor.
My second initial reaction (as noted by some in this thread) was to consider Kickstarter, but would being a "temporary music distributor of one Frank Zappa Album" even meet the standards for funding, specifically, this one:
Quote:
Funding for projects only.
A project has a clear goal, like making an album, a book, or a work of art. A project will eventually be completed, and something will be produced by it. A project is not open-ended. Starting a business, for example, does not qualify as a project.
You would be walking a fine line to not be classified as "starting a business".
Third, and no disrespect intended, but wouldn't Frank think the distribution model was locked into the 1970s?
I listen to music through an audiophile quality USB DAC playing FLAC files either ripped from CD or as Hi Res digital downloads through active studio monitors. And I am an old fart!
I understand the reason for keeping the distribution model and media from 40 years prior, CONTROL over potential bootlegs and P2P file sharing, and the ability to better track sales.
As someone mentioned in a prior post, why not simply fund the Zappa Roxy movie via Kickstarter, and bypass this rather convoluted and complicated scheme?
No disrespect intended, but there is no profit in this, even for the most enthusiastic fan.
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Seriously? You think someone here jumped on this?
