? used to extend 50 years after the death of the artist or photographer in the UK. Then a few years back that was extended to 75 year. I believe most other countries followed that ruling

That's awesome, he deserves it!

Sorry to say, Rick is going to make fuck all from the streaming of the song on Youtube or anywhere else.

Youtube doesn't pay any real money for streaming music. Pennies, and no, they don't add up to anything. I've seen the royalty checks, they suck ass. Streaming doesn't pay.

If they ran ads on the rickroll vids they might make some money from the millions of views, but they don't.

Plus, Rick doesn't own the publishing so he'll receive none of the few pennies in publishing royalties from this.

But, on the positive side, Rick will do a lot more 80's shows for somewhere around $5k to $20k a pop. Definitely not millions, but it's a nice resurgence of his career since he wasn't doing that last Year. He will make a comortable 6 figure lump of cash for many years to come thanks to the RickRoll.

well done rick:thumbsup good for you mate

"Fractions of a penny" multiplied by 90 million hits is millions of dollars?

family guy ripped it off ebaums world

If the geezers can do it,Rick will make some coin

:warning:warning:warning

I just saw a interview with his producer and manager of the record Pete Waterman.

Pete said Rick gave up the biz even though he was at his peak and had a great future as he didnt really like the music industry publicity etc.

He went on to say that the record sold over 15 million copies and with his other hits made Rick a wealthy man.

Later he added that at the moment the rick roll hasnt really made any $$$$ but at the rate its going if it goes to a crazy amount like 90 million views they will all make some $$$$.

Pete seemed to indicate that youtube pay a very small fraction of a cent for the views ???to his production company... that was new to me ? maybe some have forced tubes to pay something even though its only a micro payment ?

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"