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Record Labels May Have to Pay Double Royalties

Posted by michael on from the couldn't-happen-to-a-nicer-bunch dept.

douglips writes "News.com.com.com brings us this article explaining how record labels may be bitten by CD copy protection. At issue is the mechanism that places duplicate WMA tracks on the CD. The labels are thus selling two copies of each song, and may be required to pay twice as much to music publishers. So not only is the DRM ineffective, it also could be a huge legal liability for labels."

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  1. Re:Canadian Artists by lucabrasi999 · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    So far in Canada, artists have not been paid a cent from the CD-R royalties we all pay.

    Sounds like bad news for the Canucks. Does anyone know how it's going in Soviet Russia?


  2. Fixed link here... by qtp · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    steve albini's the problem with music is a well-documented accounting of how bands on major labels get hooped by clawback clauses.

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    Read, L