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IUMA
INTERNET UNDERGROUND MUSIC ARCHIVE
THE NET'S FIRST FREE HI-FI MUSIC ARCHIVE
Band Submission Information, Version 2.3, September 29, 1994
903 Pacific Avenue, Suite 300
Santa Cruz, California 95060
(408) 426-4862, (408) I-AM-IUMA
Email: info@iuma.com
THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST IN THE INTERNET UNDERGROUND MUSIC ARCHIVE.
In October 1993, IUMA was two college students' extracurricular
project. Today, IUMA has brought labels as diverse as Bedazzled,
TeenBeat and Warner Bros. on-line. Not content to be merely a promotional
tool for commercial labels, IUMA has put songs by more than 300
independent, unsigned artists on-line, enabling world-wide
distribution of their music to an estimated 30 million people. IUMA's
contents are powered by Silicon Graphics computers. Our main site is
located in Santa Cruz, California, with mirrors in Chapel Hill, North
Carolina, and London, England, serving approximately 45,000 accesses
daily to the songs, images and biographical text that comprise IUMA.
IUMA's rebuilding of the music industry has been widely reported in
newspapers such as the San Francisco Examiner, the Village Voice and
the London Times; magazines such as Newsweek, Billboard and Details;
and on television channels MTV (US and Europe), CNN and BBC TV.
IUMA is leading the drive toward artist-compensated, high-fidelity,
on-line music distribution. IUMA recently was awarded 1994's Best of
the Web by Internet book publisher O'Reilly & Associates for
"contributions that have significantly improved the Internet."
IUMA is a free service on the Internet which does not require user
fees or long distance phone calls. IUMA is built on the Internet's
open hypertext graphic-user interface, known as the World Wide Web,
which is compatible with Windows PCs, Apple Macintoshes and UNIX
computers. Using a visual interface, users browse through music as
they do in record stores, by band, artist or song title and
additionally by release date, artists' location, music genre and
record label. Listeners are encouraged to buy demo tapes and CDs, post
public reviews of bands' songs and e-mail the band directly.
Bands may choose to receive quarterly statistics summarizing the
number of downloads (plays) of their full songs, song excerpts,
photographs and biographical text. We have also begun to provide
artist compensation, allowing users to place orders through IUMA for
those bands who provide us with copies of their tape or CD. One recent
IUMA project, in conjunction with Silicon Graphics and Moebius
Technologies, enables radio stations to play songs on the air directly
from IUMA, increasing distribution possibilities to include FM
broadcasting.
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What to Submit to IUMA
ITEMS, SPECIFICATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
Songs
Choose songs recorded using the highest possible fidelity. We
accept DATs, CDs, cassettes and vinyl. Our tape deck has
settings for normal bias, high bias, metal cassettes and DNR B
and C.
Each band should include at least one full song. In the near
future, IUMA will become available to radio stations and will
need complete songs for airplay.
Songs must be no longer than five and one-half minutes long.
Long songs create larger files that are downloaded less often.
If your song is longer than five and one-half minutes long,
please specify a fade-in time, fade-out time or both.
Due to copyright laws, songs must be original. Parodies however
are "fair use" of other material. Each artist or band is
required to sign a license allowing IUMA to electronically
distribute their music legally. See final sheet of this packet.
We encourage all artists to have their work legally
copyrighted. The risk of copyright infringement over the
Internet is the same as it is from the radio or cassette
duplication.
Images
Photographs, artwork, CD covers and other images must be
submitted for inclusion on the site. We recommend images with
high contrast for best scanning results. Any text other than
artistic text belongs in the text section.
In general, we prefer images on a PC-compatible or Macintosh
disk, in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, CompuServe GIF or
any common format. Please specify whether the disk is formatted
for PC-compatible or Macintosh.
Text
Tell your potential audience everything they should know about
you. Submit a bio, write out song lyrics, tell a
story...express yourself. Be sure to list the musicians and
their respective instruments.
This is the right place to include contact information, where
prospective fans can find out about shows or buy music and
where major labels can send the contract.
We strongly encourage text submissions on a PC or Macintosh
disk with text in Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, plain ASCII text
or any other common format as this saves us time in processing
your band. Please specify whether the disk is PC-compatible or
Macintosh. If you send a handwritten note, please write
legibly. We cannot quote copyrighted materials (e.g. magazine
articles) at length.
Brief description of the band and each song on IUMA
Text again, but this time for quick-browsing Netizens. Be as
succinct as possible about what makes your band and songs
unique. Here is an example of a band description for Deth
Specula:
"Deth Specula is a five-man, guitar-oriented, neo-retro band from
Santa Cruz. The group plays both originals and covers. To quote Thomas
Jefferson, ' they rule.'"
See? Brief, descriptive and (silly, yet) creative. Again, one
for the band and one for each song on IUMA.
Personal Information & Legal License
Please fill in the form attached to this packet with your
address, phone number, email address and other personal
information for our records, in case we need to contact you.
Also, please make sure to sign the legal license enclosed.
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| | BROOKMAN, SCOTT
| Small Image |
| from the |
| artist/band |
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Richmond, Virginia, USA
"When I Die You Can't Have My Organs" is a very funny song about a
character's defiant refusal to donate his organs; they're his, after
all, and he's keeping them. The song, according to Brookman, who has
serious doubts about community spirit, is among the best sounding on
his latest cassette, despite a speedy recording session.
When I Die You Can't Have My Organs (3.5 mins)
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|play| Stereo MPEG (3.6MB), Mono MPEG (2.7MB)
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|play| Excerpts: Mono SUN-AU (119k), Mono MPEG (119k)
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Clicking on the small image takes you to the artist's homepage which
includes complete biographical and contact information. Clicking on
stereo, mono, or excerpts will download and play music. Each artist
also has a fifteen second excerpt of their full song for browsers.
_________________________________________________________________
Pricing
IUMA has a base service cost and a number of options for bands and
artists outlined below.
SERVICES, OPTIONS AND COSTS
Base Service
One song
One logo and two band/other images
Up to two pages of text
Cross-indexing by artist, song title, location and genre
Presence on IUMA US and IUMA Europe for one year
$100 (25% off if text is submitted on disk)
Statistical Reports
Quarterly statistical reports on accesses to songs, images and
text. Accesses are catagorized by universities, commercial
businesses and by foreign countries.
$75 ($20 off if reports can be delivered to an email address)
Additional Images
Images in addition to the logo and two images in the basic
service package.
$10 each
Additional Songs
Songs in addition to the one song in the basic service package.
$40 each
Customized Layout
If artists wish to have an interactive mix of text and images
in lieu of the biographical text, a customized layout is a
must. You specify what you would like to see with a sketch; we
build it.
$75
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IUMA is run by people dedicated to the world-wide distribution of
otherwise obscure bands and artists. Donations pay not only for the
digitizing and compressing of music, the scanning of images and the
processing of text, but also for the hardware, software, maintenance
and management of IUMA as a whole. There are also such non-negotiable
costs as rent, utilities and telephone bills. We spend a minimum of an
hour to process each submission, therefore, we feel these prices are
reasonable for the service we provide. However, IUMA is sympathetic to
starving musicians. If you honestly cannot meet these prices, please
feel free to send in your music along with a donation you can afford.
You will eventually be put on the site, but priority is given to those
who meet the standard payments.
Over the past several months IUMA has grown at a dizzying pace.
Founded by Rob Lord and Jeff Patterson in October 1993, and joined a
month later by third partner, Jon Luini, IUMA is now an organization
of roughly ten, highly dedicated employees. If you have any questions
regarding the submission information or anything else concerning IUMA
and the electronic distribution of music, do not hesitate to call,
write, fax or email us. We look forward to hearing your music and
putting it on-line.
Sincerely,
Will Hobbs
Outreach Director
caliph@iuma.com
Internet Underground Music Archive
408/426-4862 (Voice and FAX)
But don't take our word for it, listen to IUMA yourself . . .
World-Wide Web
http://www.iuma.com/
FTP
ftp.iuma.com
Gopher
gopher.iuma.com
Mailing List
email majordomo@iuma.com with the words "subscribe iuma-news"
in the body of the message
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BAND SUBMISSION FORM
Name of Band or Artist:______________________________________________________
Address:____________________________________ City:__________________________
State:____________ Zip Code:_________________ Country:_______________________
Contact Person:________________ Telephone:______________ Email:_____________
Name and Length of Songs:____________________________________________________
Genre:________________________________ Are you a BMI or ASCAP artist: _______
How did you hear about IUMA: _______________________________________________
May radio stations play your song? ______________
Are you interested in having IUMA sell your CDs and tapes? ___________
Please List Payment:
Service Requested Payment with Discount (if any) _____________
Start Up: $100 (-25% w/ text on disk) _____________
Statistics: $75 (-$20 w/email) _____________
Extra Images:# x $10 _____________
Extra Songs:# x $40 _____________
Custom Layout: $75 _____________
Total: _____________
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IUMA License
"IUMA, it's successors, assigns and licensees are granted the
irrevocable right and license in perpetuity (meaning "forever") to
reproduce, exhibit, publicly perform, broadcast and transmit by any
and all means and media now known and later becoming known with the
exception of standard CD-audio, audio cassette and other audio formats
as opposed to computer data formats: (1) the sound recording(s) which
contain the musical composition(s) entitled
Song Name: _________________________________________________________.
(2) the recorded performances on those recordings, (3) those named
musical compositions, and (4) our names, likenesses, photographs,
biographical materials and all other graphic and/or textual material
provided by us to IUMA. These rights are granted to IUMA for no cost,
the consideration being the promotional value to us of IUMA's
distribution and dissemination of those licensed materials. We warrant
and represent that the sound recordings contain only our original
performances, that no "sampled" material is contained thereon and that
the musical compositions were written solely by us in their entirety.
We shall at all times own the copyrights in and to the sound
recordings, musical compositions and materials provided by us to IUMA.
IUMA shall identify us as the copyright owner in all instances."
Signature: _________________________________ Date: ________________
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