Termyn8or
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Had to do it dintya.
There are two issues. I got Glass Bottle-I Ain't Got Time Anymore, CCR-Ramble Tamble, and several renditions of Johnny B Goode that are decades old. All of these have been in what is called public domain. That said, that means it is owned by the public after the artist gets a reasonable amount of time to make money off of it. Also when it is so old that the artist is dead, it is pretty much in public domain. And if I wrote and produced a song, that is exactly where I would want it, sort of as a legacy. I made my money, it ran it's course. If I am dead, that recording of me lives on.
And there is another thing now. We live in the day and age when the artist can directly hit the public. Yes that one group said less than half of the people payed for the download of their new album. But that also means that almost half did.
Now just how much do you supose an artist get for each CD sold ? The stamper might cost about $80,000, and then they sell a million disks for $12.99 each. That is thirteen million dollars. The artist will of course become a millionaire, but what hapened to the rest of that money ?
It is the layers and layers of people between the artist and the consumer who are eating up the money, and now they are spending it on lawyers in an attempt to save their industry. Not surprising really.
Actually in some cases the record comany does alot to "manage" these artists. I know a few, I know the type. They are a wild bunch to say the least. Through connections, record companies are swift to cover up drug charges and worse. That is their golden goose, and sometimes it thinks like a goose. You only know the things that they can't or don't want to cover up. Some rockstar gets busted with a pound of weed you are not likely to hear about it. You only hear what they want you to hear.
Their lawyers make my best lawyers look like shit,. and I have had some good ones. They are supported by the PTB so all the prosecution's evidence can be simply disallowed in a pretrial. The media can also be summarily excluded, no problem.
Rockstars really are a wild bunch, Grand Funk was in jail so much I am surprised that they ever got the album done. And others did time too, it just wasn't made public.
This is one of those invasive forces that pollute our society. In my world you make music for the enjoyment of yourself and others, not for money. It is something you do after work, not as work. Can you see that ? Can you understand ?
As an artist, of little note, but an artist nonetheless, I can say one thing. The idea of selling the art did not come from the artist. If it did they are not an artist. You practice art because you want to experss yourself. The desire to do so has been usurped by the beancounters though,and now we have this mess.
I have three songs that I wrote and performed. One has words and I actually sing it, the otrher two are purely instrumental. I don't want a dime for them. They are totally original, and I am told that they are good. "The Answer In The End" and "Dance Of the Spider" are yours. If I didn't want to share it, I could simply not play it, and keep it in my mind forever.
But that isn't the idea.
Think I'll go play the guitar. The door is locked so if the taxman feels cheated, he can't get to me. And believe me, it is not easy to get through my front door. Yup, I think I can play the guitar with impunity right now.
But one last thing, the government should not be giving any money to schools. Don't you see the inherent problem in that ? They buy control. Local utilities that are monpolies buy control of the local TV stations. Drug companies buy control of medical schools, and look where that got us.
Enough for now.
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