[P1] [P1][OT] Apple MusicStore 'opinion article'

[Fran Dollinger]

Joost van de Griek wrote:

>On 2003-05-21 18:27, Fran Dollinger wrote:
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>>Instead of where I know my money is really going, which is straight toward
>>some Universal records exec's Range Rover payments, with the remainder right
>>into the vault inside Steve Jobs' gold-trimmed bedchamber. And most likely not
>>a single dime to the artist who wrote and recorded and sang the actual music.
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>It's a widespread and popular belief, but it is wrong. There are such things
>as royalties, and as long the artists was smart enough to not sell those,
>(s)he WILL get money for every song sold/played on the air/played live.
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>Really, artists who are trapped with crappy contracts have only themselves
>to blame for signing it.
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Quite right,  I know that Janis Ian (remember her, anyone?), offers a 
free weekly MP3(she kept her rights to the songs or bought them back 
later) on her website http://www.janisian.com/index.html for d/l. Go to 
her Articles and read the Internet Debacle and then the Fallout....well 
informed and well written stuff!

Fran

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