I admit that I do buy some CDs still but even then most of the CDs I buy are used meaning the artist never sees a penny of my purchase
Frank...if it was released on a CD then the artist was paid and is entitled to royalites...excluding garage bands who put out a no name CD.
Look at it this way, the Toronto Star still sells copies of the day Armstrong touched his foot on the moon. They own it..yep it's an oldie..but THEY own it. And, they are entitled to copyright.
Assuming that the Stones..the next tour will be called "chapped lips" btw...McCartny and other's is simply wrong. They made the money because they were THAT good. To at some point turn and arbitrarily say well that's enough? Sorry, if it was your song you'd be screaming for every penny due to you and so would I.
The true fault lies with the record companies themselves. We have a very good friend who has worked as a record company marketing person and as a Marketing Director for many many years.
A number of years ago..(lets say about 9) we were having dinner and my SO asked her about MP3's? Her response..it came up in a meeting and the parent company in the US feels it's no big thing. Really? Hmmmm?
That was the response. Honest to god..what we knew as a gold mine the record companies saw as no big thing, it will be outlawed quickly, end of story. How fucking wrong could that have been? The worst part was they told their own staff to ignore it. This is not a fly by night label. At the time just BMG..now SonyBMG.
I feel bad for the artisits because the companies never protected their rights from day one.
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