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RIAA Wants Artist Royalties Lowered

Posted by Zonk on from the why-should-they-get-paid-it-is-not-their-music dept.

laughingcoyote writes "The RIAA has asked the panel of federal government Copyright Royalty Judges to lower royalties paid to publishers and songwriters. They're specifically after digital recordings, and uses like cell phone ringtones. They say that the rates (which were placed in 1981) don't apply the same way to new technologies." From the article: "According to The Hollywood Reporter, the RIAA maintains that in the modern period when piracy began devastating the record industry profits to publishers from sales of ringtones and other 'innovative services' grew dramatically. Record industry executives believe this to be cause to advocate reducing the royalties paid to the artists who wrote the original music."

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  1. Re:one would hope... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The RIAA are a bunch of Jews. Need we say any more?
    They screw their cattle (i.e. gentiles, or GOYIM, as they refer to us non-Jews) out of every penny they can, by setting up laws that favour THEM and make criminals of US, unless we pay up.
    What's next from the RIAA? A link to 'the' holocaust story with each MP3? (We mustn't forget that 'the' Holycause was "a direct attack on God's children"...
    Because the rest of us don't count. It's apparently not enough that they control America and make Americans pay taxes to fund their Zionist fantasy world in Israel, nor that they send YOUR sons and daughters to fight THEIR wars for them, nor that they own just about the entire media world and tell you goyim what to think and who is 'evil' this week.
    Wake up. Amren.com. Natvan.org.

  2. Re:This could be a good thing by brown-eyed+slug · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    It all depends on whose numbers you take. The margins for a label for the artist will appear low because the label claims a lot of expenses that are bullshit. It will pay itself $20,000 for the recording and mark that down as an expense. Pay itself 150,00 for promotion ditto with the fucked up accounting then it will pay the artists ect.. and int he end your left with 2-8 % but it managed to be the lions share of the expenses so in reality it made a lot more money but defered it to another portion of the label. Movies do the same stupid shit with fucked up accounting.
    No fucking shit.
  3. Re:Studio != live by mgabrys_sf · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Oh right - so Napster never carried "approved bootlegs" either. Fuck you mr. apologist. Isn't there some Holocaust you're supposed to be denying?