Darryl Hattenhauer said:
I agree with all of that, Addie. I just want to see the musicians at the bottom of the income ladder have the ability to play and record whatever they want.
And I'm definitely in that category..with a pipe dream of maybe collectin' some royalties offa composing someday.... 8)
From what I'm gathereing here, the issue seems to be that
venues may be the "choke point" for performing, if they aren't paying the performance rights fees.
That reminds me of a new paradigm, however, which is how the internet may be coming into play. I heard something on a college station about a year ago and I wanted to buy it, but lo and behold, I couldn't purchase a CD on the web via the usual sources like Amazon or Tower. The ONLY distribution format besides the (out-of-print) artists's self produced cassette tape was (artist provided) mp3 format.
I don't do mp3 downloads so I didn't get the material, but I could have bought it directly from the artist. Just sayin' it looked like a whole new marketing method which appeared to cut out the traditional royalty/payment structure.
On further reflection though, I suddenly realized "I wonder how (or even
if) they're preventing massive free duplication/distribution of their product?"