I hate to be the contrarian in every situation, but from my own experience at worrying about labels and such, I pretty much found out that all that stuff is bull. The more you involve yourself in it, the less focus there is on what is important: music. Put some legalese garbage in the thing saying we all have copyrights, and that people need to contact the artist before pursuing any sort of play outide of the album itself for home use, and then I think that covers it. Whenever you create something, you already have the copyright on it. If you want to prove it in court someday, just have a copy of your song on tape that you mailed to yourself at such and such date. That way, you have a postage date on it, and that's good enough for me.
I guess I'm too DIY. I tried to start my own label before, and realized that it was not worth it. What I really wanted, I found out, was a distributorship. I mean, really, what was I going to do? Sign myself? Give myself an advance?
What I found out that I needed was the ability to call up every Disc Jockey in the country, and get my record in their store, or just set up a website to sell my stuff from. I guess when you make weird-ass music, you don't expect people to play it on air anyway, and since I've always copied albums from friends, I figure everyone else will do the same. If I make enough money someday to make music, and nto have another job, I'm cool. That's all I need. I see this compilation as a way to get my music heard a bit around the world. Name recognition, nothing else, really. If it falls into the hands of someone who wants to make a movie with it, let them call me. No problems. Keep it simple, fellows, and everything will be right-o.
DaveX
