Colleges Secretly Test Music-Industry Project

An anonymous reader writes "The music industry is still pushing Choruss, a controversial blanket-licensing scheme, but it is far less innovative than first described. Six colleges are setting it up now, but they refuse to have their names released because the issue is a political landmine — and who wants to be associated with the recording industry?"

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Man, silly world...

[tjstork]

Why does the world still have this bizarre belief that taxes are for what they say. Call me cynical, but as soon as the gov't gets its hands on a stack of loot, its going to spend it as it pleases. The rationale for raising taxes is usually an excuse.

Re:Man, silly world...

[commodore64_love]

>>>Part of it is that we look around and see silly things like roads

And roads are funded by gasoline tax NOT the compact disc tax, so your example is completely and totally irrelevant. Also I paid nearly $25,000 in taxes last year. That's equivalent to a new car every single year - that's an insane amount of taxation. It's equivalent to spending the first third of each year as an indentured servant to Uncle Sam. This is a revival of serfdom.

Re:Blanket licensing is never legal

[commodore64_love]

>>>I think a monthly subscription is only fair if when the subscription ends you lose access to my music.

By this reasoning, all my previous employers should continue paying me a residual fee for the rest of my life, just because I created some schematics for them. (Or else return the schematic to me.) I don't understand why artists believe they have the right to eternal payments, when none of the rest of us workers have that right. We work; we get paid. When we get fired or laid-off, we stop getting paid, and the employer keeps what he paid for. The same should be true for songs and singers