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Brian Camelio

Brian Camelio is a Grammy® Award Winning producer, guitarist, composer and the founder of ArtistShare. Most notably he is widely considered to be the father of the "crowdfunding" model by forming ArtistShare in September, 2000. ArtistShare is a music industry business model where the fans fund the creation of new recordings and the artist is paid before the recording is released. To this date ArtistShare Artists have received a total of 11 GRAMMY awards and 32 GRAMMY nominations since 2004. The first ArtistShare fan- funded project release was entitled Concert in the Garden by American composer Maria Schneider. In 2004, the release won a Grammy for "Best Large Jazz Ensemble Recording" and made recording industry history as being the first album ever to win a Grammy that was not available in retail stores. In 2005, Brian was featured in The Big Moo - The Group of 33, "an unprecedented collaboration of 33 of the world's smartest business thinkers" by renowned business writer Seth Godin. He has been a guest speaker at the Judge Business School at Cambridge University, Midem, NARAS, ASCAP, NYU Law School, Columbia University, FMC and has been a member of the adjunct faculty at New School University since the mid-'90s, where he teaches music, business and technology.

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The Art Of The Artist To Fan Relationship

Exploring the Essence of the Relationship

Read "Exploring the Essence of the Relationship" reviewed by Brian Camelio


Way back in September of 2000 a few of my friends were having a difficult time with their record labels. Some were dropped two weeks before a big recording session (years in the planning.... poof!) and others found fine print in their contracts which made it impossible for them to make money from their recordings. Being a musician myself and knowing what it was like to dedicate one's life work to music and one day after hearing yet another story ...

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A Guy Named Brian Camelio Wants a Cut of Your Fan Funded Project

A Guy Named Brian Camelio Wants a Cut of Your Fan Funded Project

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On February 8, 2011, ex-Journey studio musician and record producer Brian Camelio was awarded U.S. Patent No. 7,885,887—"Methods and apparatuses for financing and marketing a creative work" which he assigned to his Fan Funded, LLC , the operater of a company called ArtistShare. Since then Camelio repeately contacted fan funder KickStarter “to discuss ArtistShare's patent and software licensing terms for Kickstarter."  Now Kickstarter is headed to court to protect a platform that it and others like PledgeMusic have used to ...

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