BMI and ASCAP are attempting to receive royaltiesf or the 30 Second Sample you listen to when you preview a song. Link HERE
Read that again…
Now, don’t get me wrong, I tend to support BMI and ASCAP in various ways, but this is just ridiculous. Royalties to PREVIEW a song. The problem here is to complicated to get into:
1. Who pays for the preview? Us? Apple? Record Companies? Which means prices go up
2. Its a PREVIEW. Its like going to Borders and having to pay a tax to flip through a book or read the back cover of a magazine you MAY purchase
3. How else are we to hear new and different music? Clear channel owns everything, so we can’t go to the radio, TV is no help, shows are great if you live in a major city.. I could ssay more, but you get the idea…
4. From the article
“We make 9.1 cents off a song sale and that means a whole lot of pennies have to add up before it becomes a bunch of money,” said Rick Carnes, president of the Songwriters’ Guild of America. “Yesterday, I received a check for 2 cents. I’m not kidding. People think we’re making a fortune off the Web, but it’s a tiny amount. We need multiple revenue streams or this isn’t going to work.”
Ok… did you think about that before you signed your life away to a record company? That’s called the fine print… I suggest you, as the president of SGA give that a read sometime.
5. ASCAP and BMI get paid based on “the use of a work.” So, if you want to use a work, you should have to pay to see if you want to use it… before you pay to use it. Nutz.
The article also mentions streaming audio on the iTunes Radio… Thats trick, and I am not as bitter about that… so no rant here…
This has to stop… everyone’s “I have to get mine” is insane… too angry to continue…
Via CNET and Gizmodo
