Peter Gabriel, Brian Eno Encourage Musicians to Embrace Digital Distribution

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on January 27, 2004 - 2:30am.

London -- Peter Gabriel and Brian Eno have created a musicians' union that aims to allow fellow artists to distribute their music online and bypass or supplement the traditional record label model for selling music. The two artists released a manifesto of sorts called the "Magnificent Union of Digitally Downloading Artists" (MUDDA) at the MIDEM music industry conference in Cannes. The document details how artists can use the Internet to release their music in formats other than the industry standard album. "I'm an artist who works incredibly slowly," Gabriel told the Associated Press. "If some of those (songs) could be made available, you don't have to be so trapped into this old way of being confined only by the album cycle." Gabriel is also a co-founder of On Demand Distribution (OD2), a European provider of licensed songs and delivery technology for the region's leading digital music services.
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