Today’s New York Times features a story on how Sony BMG Music Entertainment is generating revenue by marketing high quality reproductions of publicity (and other) photographs held in its archives (particularly material from Columbia Records). Other record labels are likely to follow suit as sales of CDs continue to fall.
May 29, 2008
Archives as Assets
Posted by elssler1 under Archives in the News | Tags: Commodification, Music industry, Photographs |[2] Comments
June 4, 2008 at 6:43 pm
I hate to comment on my own posts, but this is more to serve as a reminder to read Arts, Inc. (which was recently reviewed in Richard Cox’s Reading Archives blog) as soon as I can get my hands on it. It sounds like a must read that tries to address many of the issues I have been thinking about, but did not have the energy to try to expand upon in this post.
September 26, 2008 at 10:59 pm
[...] but here is an item that could serve as a follow up to an earlier “Archives as Assets” post. The Metropolitan Opera has announced that it will be launching a new subscription service in [...]