LOL at the Mets... :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Eriic, are you British?

Well lets say its as little as $0.05 per hit (5 cents).

Then he'd make $4.5m from it.

I cant believe they showed that vid at the mets.... thats mad!

On behalf of Britain I'd like to apologise for Pete Waterman.

5 cents US isn't a fraction of a UK penny. :) Don't forget that everyone else in the record chain gets a cut of it too.

First time I've heard of YouTube paying royalties......

By the way, I was at a party last night and someone had an 80s hits CD on random.......... we got Rick Rolled TWICE by the CD player. :(

I think Rick looks cute actually :winkwink:

Haha that's awesome.. the power of Viral marketing strikes aagain :)

Sure it is and everyone else who?

Case makers and CD suppliers dont get anything. Retailers dont get anything. The money goes direct to the people who own the rights to the music so Rick would get a fair share of that.

It woulda been great if that link was a RickRoll.

Interesting thread bitch nuts.

this along with all the other ignorant repsonses to copyright make wonder what kind of people are in this biz.

Copyright in the US at least, is 95 years after publication or 120 years after creation( whichever is sooner ) or 70 years after the death of the creator. If he wrote the song while being paid by the record company it's 95 years if he wrote it on his own then it's 70 years after he croaks. Assuming he wrote it in 1986 under teh employment of his label the copyright runs out in 2081. Of course in about 10-12 years Disney will bribe congress to extend copyright again. God forbid somone in 2022 uses Steamboat Willey without paying Disney. Basically only things made before 1923 are free from copyright.

? extends to 75 years after the artists death it used to be 50 but was recently changed in the UK

no it is an "inconnu-rolling"