The thing about business models of any sort is that sooner or later there is a contract between two parties for the exchange of goods and services regardless of how these are conceptualised or produced.

Using the example of the proposal outlined by Guest .rihard smith above, these contracts involve the exchange of rights to promotion/sale of artists product for some kind of fee, percentage of sales etc. Now assuming negotiations had been concluded and Guest rihard had agreed to part with his hard earned $2700 and the contract was not fulfilled as per whatever was initially agreed we have two possible scenarios.

1. If Guest rihard lived in Australia and he had entered into a contract with some sort of musical promoter her would have some kind of legal comeback. Either directly from the promoter or indirectly from the company concerned. Of course if the promoters business was not registered then it becomes really messy and basically not worth the cost of legal fees for the musician to get his money back. In other words ripped off.

Oh did someone say in one of the posts above that there are musical promoters out there in cyberspace at this very moment who are using unregistered business names?

2. Given the same circumstances but with the artist living overseas, the outcome would be just a straight out ripoff with virtually no effective comeback.

Either way Guest R loses!

Now to my mind it also begs the question of why someone in say the US, the UK or Europe would be asking someone in Australia to promote their music internationally anyway? Thats not to say it may not be possible but then again the reasons why may be more obvious to others.

Finally, it is really worth highlighting for those who are less familiar with the Mudcat the fact that many, most if not virtually all contributors to the forum are musicians professional, or not, who take an active interest in music across a whole range of styles, forms and instrumentation. Many of these people also have direct experience of the business side of the music industry. They are not schmucks contrary to what some alleged promoters with unregistered business names might think.

Cheers

Andrez

PS: Oh by the way guess what I just found?

Pictures of our Norman. Just do a search on the page for a name of interest. There are four of em on that page and at least one elsewhere on the site. Not too sure about the reference to bananas but it doesnt sound very appealing!. At least we have some sense about who is talking to us.

http://www.barrytomesmediagroup.com/index.php?f=data_business&a=4

So he has been slumming around the fringes of some music scene after all.