These are the the guidelines and the information for who is interested to know more about us, or for who wants to contribute in some forms to sustaining of this website.




Artists and works selection

We want lo listen to new material and to publish it, so, we are interested in receiving "demos" and we will listen to all the received materials.

The selections of artists and works are made in base to the proposed contents, that have to be in line with our taste and our aesthetics, we pray therefore to listen first the present publications in our catalog before deciding to send us material.

You can send cd, cdr, dvd or any kind of other support at our addresses :

Daniele Pagliero - Via Rosta, 5 10143 TORINO ITALY.
Fabio Battistetti - Corso Lione, 40 10141 TORINO ITALY.

Or, you can signal us a website where we can download or listen to your mp3.

If you want to send material audio in digital format, use http://www.yousendit.com.
Don't send streaming link and above all DON'T SEND MP3 THROUGH E MAIL ADRRESS, in these two cases the material won't be considered.




Software Developement

Another sphere which Chew-Z wants to be careful observer and promoter is the development of software audio.

We are interested to know developers that work on the open source or freeware software that want to propose applications about software audio. It is in preparation a section devoted to these projects.




Rights, accords for the collaboration and exclusive

For our attitude we don't want to collaborate with entity that gains on the art through taxes and in exchange they don't offer any service useful to us.

We use the support of Creative Commons to have a partial guardianship on our publications, nevertheless, the material published on the site is of ownership of the respective authors, we ask to register it through Creative Commons, and to send us the link of the happened registration, before surrendering us the temporary use.

If authors had particular necessity, we will appraise a specific accord on demand. For the publications on physical support (cd, cdr, etc.) we ask to the author, a temporary transfer of the rights on the material for the publication.

The costs of the press are load our and the author can ask for a number of copies that he will pay to us the same cost of production.

We ask besides that if a title is edited from Chew-Z it will not be released in any other forms or under any other contract., exception done for co-productions with other labels, so this rule cannot be applied. In the case of a publication, released in an a form that violates this accord, such material won't be more available inside our digital catalogue. If the material, published in digital form, has also been printed, the title will remain on the catalogue actually to its exhaustion.

In the case of sale, we ask that author sells own copies to the same price adopted by the website. The prices for the physical supports will be of two types: price for distributor or for direct resale as merchandise during events and gigs and price through online sale or through consignment.

We ask to listeners and to everyone that want to re-use some materials published on our website, to respect the characteristics of the Creative Commons license that we’ve adopted.

This is the legal code of the CC License: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported.
We invite you to contact us if you’re going to re-use some stuff, because we prefer a human contact than a simple link…

Creative Commonsis a no-profit association, founded in the U.S. in 2001 to make copyright more flexible. The main proposal of Creative Commons consists on Creative Commons Public Licenses (CCPL), six licenses of the copyright, free and freely usable from whoever, based on the principle of “some rights reserved”. The CCPL make simple to advise in a clear way that the re-use, the diffusion and the circulation of the work is expressly permitted in particular conditions.




Donations, sponsors and publicity

Whoever is interested to contribute through donation of funds, sponsorships or publicity he will be the welcome. Right now we don't have rates to publish ads, if the occasion will happen, specific accords will be taken.




Marketing

The maintenance of the website, the communications, the consignments of material, the press of the CD, the phone calls, the time employed by the organizers, are all alive expenses of this activity.
Chew-Z doesn't have as principal target the marketing or the money, but as already confirmed it is a space to give visibility and support to the music.
It is obvious that none of us is interested to spend without having an economic return, but we consider us honest people and we want to work to only with other honest people. We ask everybody to understand our efforts in this sense.




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