[LINK] How the big music companies take music royalties for themselves

[Jan Whitaker]

At 11:00 AM 10/03/2012, Rick Welykochy wrote:
> >> Artists deserve to get their royalties: it truly should not be this hard.
>
>It is not hard, just impossible when there is no will to part with the money.

And given the flakey manager deals that have been exposed in recent 
times, it's not any wonder.

BTW, I picked up a book by Cory Doctorow yesterday called Makers. 
Anyone read it? Just started it, but I think it's going to be good. 
It has a theme of what happens when the dinosaur businesses have to 
be retooled. The premise is that a capitalist buys Kodak and Duracell 
and combines them into a new venture helping start-ups as a network 
of businesses. I thought it ironic, or prescient, given the recent 
bankruptcy of Kodak. The book came out in 2009.

Jan



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