What makes this interesting is the fact that it appears as if China's music licensing works somewhat differently. Perhaps its communist state central bureaucracy has some advantage – they are able to uniquely tap into foreign markets without going through all of the normal channels (such as having Sony China music relicensed through US operations). This is obviously advantageous for Chinese music artists, as it represents a larger audience for their music, an audience that normal US record companies wouldn't take their chances on due to the small number of people interested in this music. Hopefully this is only a first step in what will be many in being able to unify the world music market. I sure would like to be able to purchase Russian music through the iTunes music store. This probably won't happen ever in the near future though, due to Russian music licensing issues/mass piracy in Russian (the people there do earn very small wages)/sites like allofmp3.com.
Music Licensing and China
What makes this interesting is the fact that it appears as if China's music licensing works somewhat differently. Perhaps its communist state central bureaucracy has some advantage – they are able to uniquely tap into foreign markets without going through all of the normal channels (such as having Sony China music relicensed through US operations). This is obviously advantageous for Chinese music artists, as it represents a larger audience for their music, an audience that normal US record companies wouldn't take their chances on due to the small number of people interested in this music. Hopefully this is only a first step in what will be many in being able to unify the world music market. I sure would like to be able to purchase Russian music through the iTunes music store. This probably won't happen ever in the near future though, due to Russian music licensing issues/mass piracy in Russian (the people there do earn very small wages)/sites like allofmp3.com.
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