When any material is released or produces, a copyright instruction which prohibits unauthorized reproduction, copying or lending and any other act that negates the copyright laws comes with such material.
Hence, any act wherein a Blogger puts his signature as an undertone in any such material should be highly prohibited, except unless permission is granted by the original owner (copyright owner) of such material.
Please note that the term 'MATERIAL' In this reaction refers to album, album arts, track or track art except otherwise stated.
In another front, Upcoming artistes pay bloggers to help publicize their materials, they do this with the aim of gaining more popularity. The ability of bloggers to promote the good deeds or bad deeds of celebres is yet to be seen to the fullest in Nigeria, although its a possibility provided bloggers have a cooperative mind. Bloggers more often than not inscribe their signature on such materials that come from upcoming artistes, well, that ofcourse depending on whatever agreement they (the upcoming artiste) have with the blogger if there be any.
Bloggers/Internet marketers have a way of 'TRENDING' some materials and even news. Let's do a little MATH, for instance, 50 blogers share a link for a music probably by 2face (my favourite) and use the hashTag #danceInTheRain. Let each of the 50 bloggers have 100,000 followers on twitter on the average, DO THE MATH of how many people will hear about it.
Now let that same tweet be retweeted by at least one out of their followers (that is 50 retweets on the average) let's assume those 50 people have about 20,000 followers on the average, PLEASE DO THE MATH!
Can you Imagine how many people will eventually get to hear about it?
Take note that I only used Twitter for this illustration, think about other social networks.
Don't even let me go too far, take for instance, the rumour about Psquare Breaking up and sharing assets. In less that 24hours, almost everybody had heard about it, one way or the other. Thanks to BC'S and RE-BC's, tweets and retweets, posts and shares...
If I as a Blogger pay an artiste for permission to blog about his material, do you therefore think I will be willing to release such for free? The aim of most Bloggers is Profit Making, which obviously, many have not been able to achieve... to state a fact.
DEAR ARTISTE,
You want to get paid per download of your song? Please create a platform (website) and add the mastercard option for people to register before they can download, of course per download or even track... check your download counter at the end of the month, see if you reach 1,000...
The fact is most people will prefer to buy Pirated CD's at just 100 naira, burn it to their computer and then to their phones or even collect it through bluetooth from those who have gone through the process above or from the few who download.
Your music is basically for the youth, of whom 80percent have blackberries, android phones, window phones and even the smallest browsing phone and would prefer to download because they have subscribed and/or bought DATA from any of the mobile internet service providers.
Finally, Bloggers are doing a very great Job, making sure your music gets to the person using the smallest browsing phone... WE SHOULD GET PAID FOR THAT!
Yours,
Adebusoye Ademola.
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