Net label - Definition and Overview

A netlabel, also called online label, web label or mp3 label, distributes its music in digital audio formats (mainly MP3 or OGG) through the web. Netlabels often work like classic record labels. In general they use guerrilla marketing to promote their work, because of no incoming fees.

The main difference between netlabels and record labels is that netlabels normally don't publish music on sound storage mediums like CD, vinyl or DVD. Often the music is released under freely distributable terms such as the Creative Commons Licenses but keep the copyright of the artist.

Additional Links

Netlabel-Catalogues and -Lists

• Netlabel Catalogue (http://www.phlow.de/netlabel_catalogue/) - List of Netlabels sorted by music-genre with self-definitions from each label and rss-feeds for current releases and new netlabel-releases in general
• Rowolo Netlabellist (http://www.rowolo.de/labels/) - List ordered by alphabet and genre
• Internet Archive Netlabels Collection (http://www.archive.org/audio/netlabels.php) - Large hosted collection of Netlabel files
• Scene.org (ftp://ftp.scene.org/pub/music/groups/) - Huge hosted collection of Netlabel-Releases and Music-Group-Releases
• groups.yahoo.com/group/net_label_releases Yahoo group for netlabel-releases