Mainstream artists don’t distribute their own music. Distrib...

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↳ Reply to Kayne (npub1zede6daz3yp3qwhe45jqx67u2sns3qkqrtw4z4u3ljtxv9nultqs0e3hvt)

As far as music goes, the focus of nostr should be independent artists that actually own their own work. Most of the mainstream commercial artists l...

Mainstream artists don’t distribute their own music. Distribution rights are signed over to the record label for the duration of the contract, so the label controls where and how the music is distributed.

Therefore, artists distributing directly to Nostr would by definition have to be independent artists that own or control their own distribution rights.

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