Royalties
Music: Where the money comes from
Touring, funding, streams, royalties, merch - making a living as a local musician can be a rollercoaster. Audio
What are NFTs and why are they selling for millions?
A digital-only artwork has sold at Christie's for an incredible $69m - with the winning bidder receiving a unique digital token known as an NFT. If you're still trying to figure out what NFTs… Audio
NZ's metalhead, cat-crazy, self-publishing romance queen
She has been legally blind since birth, but that hasn't stopped paranormal romance writer Steff Green (aka Stephanie Holmes) from undertaking a self-publishing career that sees her clear a six-figure… Audio
Strong growth in music industry revenue, but local content only makes up 7% of streaming
Damian Vaughan from Recorded Music New Zealand helps Music 101's Alex Behan break down recent figures showing a double digit rise in music earnings for the second year running. Audio
Pod Save The Theme: Music and Commerce
Irregular M101 guest and contributor Sam Scott returns for summer with all sorts of fun facts and musical artefacts. This week, Melody Thomas and he explore music and commerce, and the nature of music… Audio
Getting a fair cut
It's a sore point with many visual artists - that they don't get a cut at each time one of their works is sold. Nothing is likely to happen legally any time soon to change that. But a new art business… Audio
Signing the treaty
The 175th anniversary of the Treaty of Waitangi has got a bunch of contemporary Maori artists thinking about what those who signed the document would have been feeling when they put their name or mark… Audio
Resale royalties
Depot Artspace is putting on an exhibit called Pre-Loved Re-Loved which advocates that artists receive a resale royalty. So if a work is sold again after its initial sale the artist should receive a… Audio
The Secret Life Of Music Royalties
Recently Iggy Pop delivered a lecture on BBC Radio called 'Free Music in a Capitalist Society', in which he lambasted record companies for screwing musicians into penury. If the "computer Putins" had… Audio