It is 10.45pm on a Monday night. I am tired. I’m listening to ‘Crazy Ol Dreams’ by Now You See Them… But I’m sick of it so now I’m listening to ‘Youthless’ by Beck.
In Canadia… specifically, Vancouver, buskers are being told that they may have to start paying royalties to greedy assholes the ‘Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada’ for the songs they play.
$1500 for a performance licence.
Music is not a product. It’s not something you buy and drink like Mountain Dew. It’s performance or listening to does not deprive a creator of creating anything. The second kids learnt to use Kazaa… LimeWire… this was the second the idea of capitalizing off an artist’s creativity died.
Royalty payments are the last fingers on the edge of the cliff for the monopoly of bigwig record companies who hide behind the beurecratical misconceptions of what is fair and legal.
The music industry will die, but music never will.
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