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| Re: proposed copyright royalty rates [message #95114 is a reply to message #95112] |
Sat, 26 January 2008 14:09  |
Dedric Terry
Messages: 788
Registered: June 2007
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It gets worse:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12 /28/AR2007122800693.html
It seems the RIAA is not only intentionally biting the hand that feeds it,
it's also trying to rip it off
and pretend it doesn't need it. The RIAA isn't out to protect creative
ownership rights, it's
trying to destroy it with a shortsighted view of profit-grabbing, rather
than seeing a potential for increased
profits in the future for all, albeit not at the exhorbitant rate they are
wanting to grab now.
Imho, musicians, artists and independants should lobby to get the federal
courts to outlaw or restrict the RIAA's
approach or there won't be a profitable music industry left for anyone, much
less record labels. This is
a very dangerous line they are walking, and why they can't see the longterm
disaster awaiting the record
industry being massively hastened such tactics is beyond me. Why in the
heck would I even bother writing music for 0.58% share?
I wouldn't - it would take massive sales just to pay for a demo session.
Why would the buying public buy songs that are going to bring big brother
(RIAA) down on them? They won't. Artists are next - just wait, the
suggested artist royalty will also be below 1%. That should just about tank
the established recording industry completely.
Songwriters already make very little compared to the income generated from a
successful song, and composers make less (the US is the only country that
does not pay royalties to composers for film distribution/performance, and
sync royalties are far below
that of a song for the same broadcast).
"Don Nafe" <dnafe@magma.ca> wrote in message news:479bac00@linux...
> http://womb.mixerman.net/showthread.php?p=109943#post109943
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