Umm Most bands dont make squat on tour. The point of touring is to promote the album. Super bands may make a few dollars but the average band could not survive on the money they get touring.
I sure can be costing more $ to produce a CD. Recording studio charge the more every year for use of facilites, I hope the sound engineers are getting raises every so often, and the cost of printing the colaterial material for promotion is no going down. ie the art work on the cd cover and the graphic design of the jewel case and cd. As a commercial artist I know I charge more and more every year as I have to pay more and more in cost to run my business. So the cost to make CD's sure as hell can be going up.
No different then a bike or powered skate board. You are not supposed to ride those on the sidewalk either. They said they are banned from the sidewalk. Does it say anything about being banned from the street? or is that just the authors little spin on saying they are banned from the city as a whole?
No one will make people by the works I create. But if they want to USE MY WORK then they should pay. They dont have to use my work. So all I am passing on is the store. The store is the Work.
I dont think you all know how much it cost to PRODUCE a CD. First you have to make the music. studio time production time re-recording time. Then you have to have the art work for the CD. If its a photograph thats anywhere from $5000 to $15000 (and up) to have just the image created. Then you have to design the CD Jewel case and CD. I would guess before manufacturing the average Label marketed CD cost close to $100,000 to produce. So How much should a cd cost? The band deservers Money. The label for sure deservers the money for marketing it. The highest paid bands may make $2 per CD sold. (not talking mega bands like Pearl Jam and the likes they may be $4)
So the average labeled band gets $1 for every cd sold and the average band sells about 40,000 cds. 4 guys just made $40,000 for at least 6months of work if not YEARS to produce ONE CD. Not that I agree with the RIAA but P2P is mostly pirating (YES IT IS SHUT UP) So everyone who is dling MP3 on kazza is JUST AS BAD AS THE RIAA when it comes to ripping off musicians.
Oh good then I get to move into your house when the rights expire on your ownership of it. How come that is different? My works are mine. I made them. Why do I have to give them up for free but other items of ownership are not under those same provisions? As for family businesses they are NOT gifted.
Yes my comment is that most of the posters dont have a clue what copyright law even says. http://www.loc.gov/copyright/
Also people should read the Berne act.
I make 100% of my living from copyright material. While the big boys may be what you all see these laws really help the small guy too. You own a business you pass it on to your kids. I have the right to pass on my hard work and the profits from it to my family.
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Umm Most bands dont make squat on tour. The point of touring is to promote the album. Super bands may make a few dollars but the average band could not survive on the money they get touring.
I sure can be costing more $ to produce a CD. Recording studio charge the more every year for use of facilites, I hope the sound engineers are getting raises every so often, and the cost of printing the colaterial material for promotion is no going down. ie the art work on the cd cover and the graphic design of the jewel case and cd. As a commercial artist I know I charge more and more every year as I have to pay more and more in cost to run my business. So the cost to make CD's sure as hell can be going up.
Could this be amiga based?
No different then a bike or powered skate board. You are not supposed to ride those on the sidewalk either. They said they are banned from the sidewalk. Does it say anything about being banned from the street? or is that just the authors little spin on saying they are banned from the city as a whole?
No one will make people by the works I create. But if they want to USE MY WORK then they should pay. They dont have to use my work. So all I am passing on is the store. The store is the Work.
I dont think you all know how much it cost to PRODUCE a CD. First you have to make the music. studio time production time re-recording time. Then you have to have the art work for the CD. If its a photograph thats anywhere from $5000 to $15000 (and up) to have just the image created. Then you have to design the CD Jewel case and CD. I would guess before manufacturing the average Label marketed CD cost close to $100,000 to produce. So How much should a cd cost? The band deservers Money. The label for sure deservers the money for marketing it. The highest paid bands may make $2 per CD sold. (not talking mega bands like Pearl Jam and the likes they may be $4) So the average labeled band gets $1 for every cd sold and the average band sells about 40,000 cds. 4 guys just made $40,000 for at least 6months of work if not YEARS to produce ONE CD. Not that I agree with the RIAA but P2P is mostly pirating (YES IT IS SHUT UP) So everyone who is dling MP3 on kazza is JUST AS BAD AS THE RIAA when it comes to ripping off musicians.
oh, I thought that was just the power disapation from the 3Ghz P4.
Oh good then I get to move into your house when the rights expire on your ownership of it. How come that is different? My works are mine. I made them. Why do I have to give them up for free but other items of ownership are not under those same provisions? As for family businesses they are NOT gifted.
Yes my comment is that most of the posters dont have a clue what copyright law even says. http://www.loc.gov/copyright/ Also people should read the Berne act. I make 100% of my living from copyright material. While the big boys may be what you all see these laws really help the small guy too. You own a business you pass it on to your kids. I have the right to pass on my hard work and the profits from it to my family.