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The recording artist should be jumping up and down that their songs get
played on DSS, because only when something is broadcast digitally are they
entitled to royalties under 17 USC 106(6). The song author gets paid, too,
of course. Only the record companies are left out in the cold, which is why
they fight tooth and nail against technologies like MP3, Music Choice, MDs,
and DATs. Death to the bourgeois!
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Who seems to be more obsessed about copyright? It seems to me that the
sheet-music publishers and the record companies are more obsessed about
copyright and control of how the music is distributed, than those who
composed or performed it in the first place.
The above-mentioned technologies permit the reticulation of musical works
independent of a middle-man. Internet-based distribution methods like MP3
and Internet radio schemes permit music otherwise available in selected
geographic areas to be available all around the world.
Other examples of publisher obsession with copyright is their desire to
clamp down on the replication of music scores. For example, tablature sites
have been shut down because of the desire to control the distribution of
this information. Also publishers harass choirs, bands and other music users
about photocopying of sheet music for each member of the choir, band, etc.
Even classical and traditional compositions that are obviously out of
copyright are watched by these publishers because of their interest in
controlling the distribution of the works.
Often the person who built up a work has to sign a contract to absolve
themselves of all say in the distribution of their work when they seek its
publication. This has led to the stoushes that artists like Public Enemy
have had with record companies about Internet-based music distribution.
With regards,
Simon Mackay
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