Music Publishers Demanding Musicians Hand Over More Rights
from the protecting-artists,-huh? dept
It would be amusing to watch the various parts of the legacy music business fight with each other over who can screw over artists faster if it weren't so sad. The latest, found on Hypebot, is that music publishers -- who used to be considered the part of the business whose interests were most "aligned" with songwriters -- are now demanding the equivalent of "360 deals" from artists. Basically, since their own business is struggling, they're trying to demand more rights from artists, who increasingly have other options and don't need to deal with such middlemen. What's amusing, of course, is that these publishers keep pretending they actually have the songwriters best interests at heart. Yeah, right.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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The paradox of control...
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Funny thing is, most tyrants dont see it as tyranny, they see it as their right. Rights granted by law, by god, or by agreement. They never seem to realize, they themselves created or inherited these rights. Rights that were created in a self serving manner, to take away the rights of others.
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Now that is better.
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And Walmart, it's products are generally the kind that aren't looked for specifically. I mean, sure, you might like a certain brand of paper towels, but you're don't care enough about them to go to each brand-makers website and order specifically. Once again, it's about convenience, and Walmart provides the shelf-space so that products can be found.
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I don't know a lot about Walmart, but Amazon at least are pretty good at offering useful services at reasonable prices. Middlemen who make things easier are a good thing.
As an example, Amazon offer a hosting service. The service is targeted at middlemen because hosting is a great example of economies of scale. If the middlemen all hosted their own stuff then it would cost them far more than it costs to use Amazon's service. If Amazon tried to serve everyone directly then it would not have the resources. It's easy to offer a lot of bandwidth and space, it's not so easy to deal with each user of that bandwidth and space as a customer.
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Perfect example of non-understanding of the market
Its kinda like the Catholic Church recently calling on all of their homosexual priests to resign, in the midst of their lowest staffing level in history (here In Ireland, only one new priest was ordained in the past year).
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