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Originally Posted by Trixie
It's not about copyright infringement, it's about internet radio stations being forced to pay exorbitant royalties relative to regular radio. I don't know how Pandora works (I know how it works as a listener, but not the back end stuff), but I do have a Live365 station which keeps me somewhat up-to-date on the bullshit. I wish I could articulate it really well for you, but all I can do is say is internet radio is not just whining "why can't we broadcast music for free?"; these are sites that already do pay to broadcast and the recording industry and big broadcasting are trying to kill internet radio completely.
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You pay what the copyright owners want to charge or you use someone else shit
that doesn't charge as much.
Nothing is stopping you from taking every shit band in your state and putting their music
on the radio and playing it for free if the bands agree.
What's stopping you is that you don't want to play every shit band because their music
is worthless.
You'd like the benefit of using something that is worth something and pay nothing for it.
What you're doing is trying to strike a "good deal" on music by changing the law.
Yet you have no idea what this will means to new music.
If there is no money in writing songs and producing music then great people are going
to leave the biz to do something to pay there bills which means no more good music.
The whole issue of the copyright thing really hindges on the public's ignorance about the
cost of making music. People think they can make a song for $200 bucks.
I spent 5 years trying to get a decent song together for a record deal and spent at
least 20k in recording, equipment, labor, demo tape, vinyl etc... and never produced
shit that was worth a dime. Ok, one song did make about $3500.
And I'm pretty sure I rounded up that figure.
I had to give that shit up.
And this is just the begining. I was recording in studios with guys that were already
singed and they had recording budgets of 100k and most of their shit FLOPPED!!
Where the fuck is the money going to come from to pay for this?
This doesn't even include printing the music (putting on CD etc...) , or MTV video
production, or distribution, or promotion, or art work, or managment fees of 15%,
plus agent fees of 10%, plus legal fees, plus copyright fees, plus ASCAP dues,
plus AFTRA dues, plus a lot of other stuff that my bouron is blocking out now.
Think about the Michael Jackson flop :
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,319537,00.html
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Jackson has spent the last couple of months complaining that Sony didn't do enough to promote and market ''Invincible,'' released last November on Sony's Epic label, which sold 2 million copies in the U.S. and only a few million more in the rest of the world -- lackluster figures by Jackson's standards. Sony says it has done plenty, having spent $50 million producing and promoting the album, but it balked at Jackson's request earlier this year for $8 million to shoot a third video for the album...
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Others aren't spending 50 million but they are spending as much as they have, because look at the competition who is spending 50 million!
You think you can make a song to compete with Michael Jackson for space on the
sales rack? I'd like to see anyone do that on a $200 budget without having
the "Paris Hiltion Phenomenon" working for them.
She sucked one fucking dick and got a million bucks for it, now you try that.
Maybe if you spend $300,000 promoting yourself sucking a dick you can get a million.
That's where the musicians are.