adamslim;158592 Wrote: > I think the difference here is that you are looking at this from a legal > perspective, while I am coming at it from an ethical angle. If you're going to argue from an ethical perspective, you ought to examine how ethical (or not) is the typical recording contract offered to artists by the big labels.
Here's what usually happens: 1. The label advances the artist some money, which is used to record the album. 2. The label owns the recording. 3. The advance, plus all costs incurred by the label in manufacturing, distributing and marketing the album are recouped from the artist's royalties. Such costs include the expensive lunches and parties thrown by the label's executives. 4. If by some miracle the album is successful enough that it generates more royalties than the label's costs, then the artist starts getting paid (provided there hasn't been some creative accounting at the record label). 5. Meanwhile, the recording, which the artist has paid for out of their royalties, belongs to the label. Is that ethical? Seems more like legalised theft to me. AllOfMP3 was just a different kind of legalised theft. You might argue that signing such a contract would be insane. But most wannabe pop stars will sign pretty much anything if they think this will be their "big break". Anyway, history is overtaking us. I read today that the Russian government has agreed to shut down AllOfMP3 in order to progress its application to join the WTO. -- cliveb Performers -> dozens of mixers and effects -> clipped/hypercompressed mastering -> you think a few extra ps of jitter matters? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28858 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
