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ASCAP Says Apple Should Pay For 30-sec. Song Samples
CNet reports on a new money battle brewing between those who generate music and those who profit from selling it on the Net. "Songwriters, composers, and music publishers are making preparations to one day collect performance fees from Apple and other e-tailers for not just traditional music downloads but for downloads of films and TV shows as well. Those downloads contain music after all. These groups even want compensation for iTunes' 30-second song samples. ... Apparently, the music industry can't obtain the fees through negotiations. They have begun lobbying Congress to pass legislation that would require anyone who sells a download to pay a performance fee..."
Man, this makes SOOOOOOOO angry. Someone should write a song about this.
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
"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.
Who in the hell has Rick's other 7.1 cents?
0 = 1 + e^(Alt something)
I quite like referring to it as arranging a meeting with "the board of education"
I'll give them a free 30 second preview of the body part they can kiss. (Limited time only, restrictions apply, one per customer.)
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
Out of cannons, preferably.
There is a war going on for your mind.
Obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/411/
Fear the penguin.
So for right now, it's far from reality.
Doesn't hurt Apple that much, if people still use their store and iTunes library to keep track of everything, to assure lock-in.
Maybe Apple can be kind and replace the "play 30 sec sample" link with a BitTorrent link, for those that choose not to let apple provide the sample for free.
Shouldn't "ASCAP" just be renamed "ASSHATS"?
Excellent use of the word arse. People, take note.
ASCAP go fuck yourself.
I read slashdot to *escape* the workplace, not relive it.
*sigh*
Prostitutes charge even if you only last 30 seconds, I know from experience :-(
> But it's pretty ridiculous to try to add online music sales as one definition of "performing", because it's just not.
Agreed. I will pay performance fees if and only if the 30 second sample is an actual live performance at that moment just for me to sample the tune.