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On February 8, 2011 Camelio was awarded [http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=MNgFAQAAEBAJ&dq=artistshare U.S. Patent No. 7,885,887] - "Methods and apparatuses for financing and marketing a creative work". |
On February 8, 2011 Camelio was awarded [http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=MNgFAQAAEBAJ&dq=artistshare U.S. Patent No. 7,885,887] - "Methods and apparatuses for financing and marketing a creative work" which is currently assigned to Fan Funded, LLC ( [http://fanfunded.com fanfunded.com]) from which ArtistShare operates under license. |
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Revision as of 06:00, 25 September 2011
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ArtistShare Founder and CEO Brian Camelio | |
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| Occupation(s) | Founder/CEO ArtistShare inc, Composer, Musician, Record Producer |
Brian Camelio is the founder of ArtistShare as well as an accomplished musician/composer and producer. He has released his own music, and worked as a studio musician for Journey and as a producer for Jazz guitar legend Jim Hall, among others. Most notably he is widely considered to be the father of the "crowd-funded/fan-funded" music business 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. 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. In 2008, Camelio advised researchers from the Copyright Policy Branch of the Government of Canada as part of the Copyright Modernization Act, 2010. He has been a guest speaker at the Judge Business School at Cambridge University, Midem, NARAS, ASCAP, NYU Law School, Columbia University, University of the Arts (Philadelphia), 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.
Music career
Camelio began his music career at the age of 9 and continued to pursue music at Clark University as a composition major. After finishing his music degree at the University of Vermont with a concentration in orchestral composition, he spent 15 years as a professional touring musician, composer and producer. Since founding ArtistShare, he is most active as a producer most notably producing 4 award winning releases for Jazz guitar legend Jim Hall including Hemispheres the 2008 collaboration with Bill Frisell and Conversations (2010) with Joey Baron. Camelio has also worked with a variety of popular artists including Trey Anastasio and Phish.
Business career
In early 2000, Brian founded ArtistShare. ArtistShare is a relationship-based model for the arts business, in which fans contribute towards the funding of an artists latest work in exchange for insight into the creative process. Recordings made for ArtistShare are "fan-funded" and to this date have received a total of 5 Grammy awards and 17 Grammy nominations since 2005. 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.
Patents
On February 8, 2011 Camelio was awarded U.S. Patent No. 7,885,887 - "Methods and apparatuses for financing and marketing a creative work" which is currently assigned to Fan Funded, LLC ( fanfunded.com) from which ArtistShare operates under license.
Select Awards
- Choc de L'ane'e Award (Jazzman - France) 2005 for Jim Hall- Magic Meeting (producer)
- Choc de L'ane'e Award (Jazzman - France) 2006 for Jim Hall- Free Association (producer)
- ASCAP Young Composer's Grant for String Quartet # 1 (composer)
- Mayor's Peace Prize for composing the symphony Return to Dawn (composer)
- GRAMMY Awards 2005-2011 – 5 GRAMMY wins and 17 Nominations for ArtistShare releases