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Old May 12, 2018, 09:40 AM
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Technically speaking, any album, indie or otherwise, offered for sale on the major digital storefronts (iTunes, Google Play, Amazon etc.) have to be licensed to adhere to those platforms' terms of submission. As a result, I classify any album sold through those platforms as 'Commercial'. The question is then of course - do those platforms actually enforce this to the point that this assertion is always correct? That I'm not so sure about.

Bandcamp is the major distributor that causes the most confusion. Anything goes on that platform and I'm sure there are a number of albums we have marked as 'Doujin/Indie' that have obtained the proper mechanical licenses but are sold exclusively through Bandcamp leaving us here to basically take a guess. As nextday says, in the absense of proof, these kind of albums should be marked as doujin/indie.
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