September 2010

Paul McCartney plans to digitize his collection of artwork, videos and master recordings with the goal of making most of it accessible to the public.

The collection includes some unique items that have not been seen before by the public. For instance, McCartney had cameras follow him while he attended events such as Live Aid, and that footage has not previously been released.

Hewlett-Packard is managing the project and will build the computing infrastructure at the former Beatle's company, McCartney Productions Ltd., to make the works accessible.

HP called McCartney's collection "one of the most comprehensive libraries of any artist." Less than 5 percent of it has been shared, said Dave Shirk, vice president of marketing for HP's enterprise business.

The content management system will let McCartney decide how much of the collection he ultimately wants to share, Shirk said. Once the content becomes accessible, McCartney will likely end up with a hybrid private-public cloud system that can accommodate spikes in traffic.

HP couldn't say when the project is expected to be completed. Between 30 and 100 people at HP will work on the project, Shirk said.

"We have people fighting on our teams to be part of this project because of the way [McCartney] is getting involved," he said. "He's been steering this, not the guys who work for him."

Depending on the outcome, HP could decide to market a package of products to other artists who want to share their collections.

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this would be such a great thing for prince, to incorporate everything he's ever done, including

movies, songs for others (plus his own versions of those songs), outtakes, poetry, hundreds of

concerts, all his released and unreleased songs and videos. etc etc etc.

oh wait, the internet is dead huh?

Way to go, Paul! That's the way you do it...is a certain SOMEBODY listening?

Prince? Not in a million years. The self-dubbed Purpled Yoda of course would demand payment in advance from HP. Then he'd feign dissatisfaction with project only to end up on the receiving end of a lawsuit for breach of contract.

Identity said:

Prince? Not in a million years. The self-dubbed Purpled Yoda of course would demand payment in advance from HP. Then he'd feign dissatisfaction with project only to end up on the receiving end of a lawsuit for breach of contract.

and if he did manage to actually see the deal through, he would charge his fans something like

$ 2500,- for access to all of that material. then he'd take it all offline since not enough people

would buy into it, thus cutting loose the last 5000 or so hard core fans he has left.

IstenSzek said:

Identity said:

Prince? Not in a million years. The self-dubbed Purpled Yoda of course would demand payment in advance from HP. Then he'd feign dissatisfaction with project only to end up on the receiving end of a lawsuit for breach of contract.

and if he did manage to actually see the deal through, he would charge his fans something like

$ 2500,- for access to all of that material. then he'd take it all offline since not enough people

would buy into it, thus cutting loose the last 5000 or so hard core fans he has left.

$2500? Puh-lease! Your figure is far too low--remember he tried to charge $2000 for his Opus w/Ipod! Add a zero to that!

this is awesome!! was just listening to "Ram" earlier today.

Just for the heck of it--really looking forward to Paul's project!

purplethunder3121 said:

IstenSzek said:

and if he did manage to actually see the deal through, he would charge his fans something like

$ 2500,- for access to all of that material. then he'd take it all offline since not enough people

would buy into it, thus cutting loose the last 5000 or so hard core fans he has left.

$2500? Puh-lease! Your figure is far too low--remember he tried to charge $2000 for his Opus w/Ipod! Add a zero to that!

the opus! i forgot about that i guess membership/access to this kind of site would indeed be 10.000 upwards lol