That is indeed a fair criticism. If the collections agencies cannot do the applicable research, then it's theft: either theft from the copyrights of the songwriters who actually deserve it, or from the public if the song is in the public domain.
Also, it would have the same problem as performance fees collected by the collecting societies, add more middlemen to live off the works of the creative people, and only distribute to the most famous and biggest earners in a creative field.
I'm not sure about ASCAP, but it doesn't apply to BMI. I've gotten $7.22 in royalties from BMI (most of which comes from the Mega Ran song O.P., for which I composed, tracked, and performed the chiptune outro), as well as earned $17.77 from my publisher Songtrust (whose deal entitles me to all of the royalties given to the publisher on my behalf).
As for people on major labels, this is anecdotal, but I'm fortunate enough to know John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants, and I asked him a few years ago at a Pizza restaurant in Williamsburgh, Brooklyn, NY if they received their royalties from the songs they wrote for their major label or if other middlemen (such as their songwriting publisher Warner-Chappell) kept them all, and his answer was this:
We get most of them.
So while this is anecdotal, it does demonstrate that the while major label may not pay when it comes to record sales, the songwriting royalties from their music publisher do indeed pay.
What's that about being careful about wishes again?
Koby, this is what you wanted. Are you going to communicate with your state's senators to make sure this passes? I can't expect this to pass judicial review should it
A. get out of Senate committee
B. survive a filibuster
C. pass the Senate
D. get out of House committee
E. pass the house
F. get signed by Biden
Considering all that constitutional and parliamentary procedure and not much public appetite for this, this has little if any chance of passing. Are you going to write to your senators to cosponsor this? Telling by your past comments here on this web site, this seems to be right up your alley.
Care to name any? The only ones I can think of off the top of my head are Geocities and Yahoo Answers. Google shuts down a lot of their failures, but they're not significant or else they'd still be here.
Not only that, in the upper-left corner of the map is a numerical listing the most visited web sites in the world. Basically, it's US vs. China as far as who has the most dominant traffic.
Well, Netflix is humongous, and Amazon, Hulu, and Disney+ are doing well, so yeah, Hollywood is holding up well on the internet; it just took them hellishly long to embrace it once Netflix showed them that it could be done!
Of course, the credit should be given to Randall Munroe who–in his sublime XKCD webcomic–created the idea of web sites' traffic as literal land masses.
Knowing this is Amazon we're talking about, the proof will be in the pudding. I don't trust them (I don't trust Apple either and I'm an Apple user, so there). It's just that there should be a check against Amazon if they renege.
I appreciate it, Mike, but I'll still purchase or otherwise obtain paper books from my local independent book store (called Books Are Magic, in case you were wondering), eBooks if they are DRM-free from various sources (because they're DRM-free), and audiobooks from libro.fm, downpour.com, or librivox. With all these options, I'm set!
"there are actors who seek to weaken your legal protections in order to advance their business interests, whether that interest is in bloating the fair use doctrine to illogical boundaries or, more blatantly, appropriating and monetizing your works without permission."
I hear
"Fuck our readers and fuck everybody who would like to make reading our works easier. Seriously, just fuck them and give me more money."
Oh, and for the record, I absolutely hate Amazon and I only browse their web site to pick up the books I want to buy at my local independent book store.
But as much as I loathe Amazon's market power, I do have options as a consumer.
So Karl, so what you're saying is, the Telecoms think they should extract rents when they don't even own the land from which the rents are extracted?
That's beyond chutzpah. There should be a new Yiddish word for it: "iberchutzpah". That's so much chutzpah that even the child who killed his parents and begged the judge for mercy because he's an orphan thinks it's too much.
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Re:
And the only good things that Rupert Murdoch ever did were sold to Disney.
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Celebration!
Allow me to celebrate being #2 most-insightful commenter of the week with a GIF: https://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/gallery/yes/ace_ventura.gif
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Re: Re: Bogus
So there is no telecom monopoly, I take it?
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Re: Re: Re: Re:
That is indeed a fair criticism. If the collections agencies cannot do the applicable research, then it's theft: either theft from the copyrights of the songwriters who actually deserve it, or from the public if the song is in the public domain.
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Re: Re:
I'm not sure about ASCAP, but it doesn't apply to BMI. I've gotten $7.22 in royalties from BMI (most of which comes from the Mega Ran song O.P., for which I composed, tracked, and performed the chiptune outro), as well as earned $17.77 from my publisher Songtrust (whose deal entitles me to all of the royalties given to the publisher on my behalf).
As for people on major labels, this is anecdotal, but I'm fortunate enough to know John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants, and I asked him a few years ago at a Pizza restaurant in Williamsburgh, Brooklyn, NY if they received their royalties from the songs they wrote for their major label or if other middlemen (such as their songwriting publisher Warner-Chappell) kept them all, and his answer was this:
So while this is anecdotal, it does demonstrate that the while major label may not pay when it comes to record sales, the songwriting royalties from their music publisher do indeed pay.
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Re:
CFSPRDL? You'll never be a politician with legislative acronyms like that!
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What's that about being careful about wishes again?
Koby, this is what you wanted. Are you going to communicate with your state's senators to make sure this passes? I can't expect this to pass judicial review should it
A. get out of Senate committee
B. survive a filibuster
C. pass the Senate
D. get out of House committee
E. pass the house
F. get signed by Biden
Considering all that constitutional and parliamentary procedure and not much public appetite for this, this has little if any chance of passing. Are you going to write to your senators to cosponsor this? Telling by your past comments here on this web site, this seems to be right up your alley.
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Re: Re: Re: Key Nodes
Then again, Google does shut down a lot of their meaningful products, such as Google Reader...
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Re: Re: Key Nodes
Care to name any? The only ones I can think of off the top of my head are Geocities and Yahoo Answers. Google shuts down a lot of their failures, but they're not significant or else they'd still be here.
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Re: Re:
Not only that, in the upper-left corner of the map is a numerical listing the most visited web sites in the world. Basically, it's US vs. China as far as who has the most dominant traffic.
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Re: What about hosting
Cloudflare is there. Just take a closer look.
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Re:
Well, Netflix is humongous, and Amazon, Hulu, and Disney+ are doing well, so yeah, Hollywood is holding up well on the internet; it just took them hellishly long to embrace it once Netflix showed them that it could be done!
On the post: Map Of The Internet Exposes The Lie That 'Big Tech' Controls The Internet
Credit to Randall Munroe
Of course, the credit should be given to Randall Munroe who–in his sublime XKCD webcomic–created the idea of web sites' traffic as literal land masses.
I'm glad someone else took the mantle from him.
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Skeptical
Knowing this is Amazon we're talking about, the proof will be in the pudding. I don't trust them (I don't trust Apple either and I'm an Apple user, so there). It's just that there should be a check against Amazon if they renege.
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Re: Re: Re: Can't Do Without
I appreciate it, Mike, but I'll still purchase or otherwise obtain paper books from my local independent book store (called Books Are Magic, in case you were wondering), eBooks if they are DRM-free from various sources (because they're DRM-free), and audiobooks from libro.fm, downpour.com, or librivox. With all these options, I'm set!
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Translating Pallante's words
When Maria Pallante says:
"there are actors who seek to weaken your legal protections in order to advance their business interests, whether that interest is in bloating the fair use doctrine to illogical boundaries or, more blatantly, appropriating and monetizing your works without permission."
I hear
"Fuck our readers and fuck everybody who would like to make reading our works easier. Seriously, just fuck them and give me more money."
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Re: Re: Can't Do Without
Oh, and for the record, I absolutely hate Amazon and I only browse their web site to pick up the books I want to buy at my local independent book store.
But as much as I loathe Amazon's market power, I do have options as a consumer.
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Re: Can't Do Without
That's a nice thought, Koby, but not quite:
All this off the top of my head. I could think of more, such as ebay, if I cared or had time.
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So what you're saying is…
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Ahem.
So Karl, so what you're saying is, the Telecoms think they should extract rents when they don't even own the land from which the rents are extracted?
That's beyond chutzpah. There should be a new Yiddish word for it: "iberchutzpah". That's so much chutzpah that even the child who killed his parents and begged the judge for mercy because he's an orphan thinks it's too much.
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