{"id":168,"date":"2007-06-25T15:05:42","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T15:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/radio\/?p=168"},"modified":"2012-08-17T06:00:26","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T06:00:26","slug":"in-conversation-with-john-buckman-ceo-of-magnatune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/radio\/2007\/06\/25\/in-conversation-with-john-buckman-ceo-of-magnatune\/","title":{"rendered":"In Conversation With John Buckman, CEO of Magnatune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">John Buckman is a serial entrepreneur, a musician, a marketeer and an open media evengelist, but he\u2019s better known as the CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magnatune.com\">Magnatune<\/a>, an indpendent, profitable online record label whose tagline closely matches that of Google\u2019s: \u201cWe are not evil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ask any musician and he\u2019ll tell you about the unfair treatment and high-handedness of big record labels. They always call the shots and take most of the revenues. John Buckman saw an opportunity here. He created an artist-friendly label that not only shares profits equally with musicians but also allows them to retain the rights to their work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">John sits on the board of <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/about\/people#65\">Creative Commons<\/a> and it\u2019s no wonder that he has successfully used the open source principles to establish a unique kind of business model for the music industry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prior to founding Magnatune, Buckman founded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyris.com\/\">Lyris Technologies<\/a> in 1994. Lyris sells software for email newsletters and spam prevention. The company was generating $12 million in annual revenues when Buckman sold it in 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Buckman is a serial entrepreneur, a musician, a marketeer and an open media evengelist, but he\u2019s better known as the CEO of Magnatune, an indpendent, profitable online record label whose tagline closely matches that of Google\u2019s: \u201cWe are not evil.\u201d Ask any musician and he\u2019ll tell you about the unfair treatment and high-handedness of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ceo","category-cxo","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}