Comments on: 5 Reasons to NOT upload your Music or Videos to a Third Party

By: Marvin Patton

Marvin Patton — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:25:53 +0000

Please let us know what you think about Ourstage.com. My wife and I are both songwriters and we have placed quite a few songs on their site. The first few days we were placed in the top 10 with a few even going to number one in our region and after 4 to 5 days, all our songs drop to the bottom or middle of the ratings and the voting of our songs don’t make a lick of sense to either one of us?? They claim that all rights remain ours and that all sales will go to our paypal account but so far we haven’t made a bloody penny off of our posted songs. Are we being taken for a ride? I did read most of the agreement but not all. I ass-u-med everything was on the up and up but after reading your five reasons I’m not so sure?

Thank you for your blog. Have a good day and may you feel the blessings of what life and love have for you on a day to day basis.

In His Blessed name,

Marvin Patton

By: Kiqlo

Kiqlo — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:53:21 +0000

Here a valid alternative Kiqlo
Kiqlo is not interested in the getting the rights on your content. Kiqlo allow you to sell your content while you keep your copyright. You can upload it for free, sell it for free and Kiqlo does not take any cut out of it. It is true! No Catch!
You can download, upload without login. If you want to sell you need to be logged in. It is a new concept but it is exactly for this purpose.

Kiqlo

By: Douglas Karr

Douglas Karr — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:13:18 +0000

Hi Timothy,

All of the major companies have been revamping their terms of use and continue to do so on an ongoing basis. It would require continuous review. I’m only warning people that they must review all terms of use before uploading anything they ‘think’ they own. I would hate to see someone lose the rights to their music or video simply by uploading it to a server… where someone else can make a buck off of it!

Regards,
Doug

By: Timothy Hogan

Timothy Hogan — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:07:55 +0000

Please tell us of which great companies you speak at the end of your post! You leave me hanging! I would love to maintain all rights over my music, yet I am forced to utilize some mediums for the simple fact that is where the audience lies.

I happen to think social architecture sites, REAL ones, such as tribe.net are ripe grounds for artist controlled media dispersal. At this juncture that particular one is without music hosting capabilities, yet it does allow embedded links to content sites like YouTube. I have a MySpace account which is linked with SnowCap, wherin I may set the price of the song, which they then markup. I have only been toying with it and need more exposure, so I have to consider hosting my work elsewhere. The large sites seem to be on the verge of saturation and fully slanted to video over sound only.

By: sandra Silva

sandra Silva — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:05:35 +0000

How does one host their own video or podcast? I have video on my website but how do I get the masses to see it?