[cc-community] A monthly charge for music, a taxing reality or a fictional freedom?
Michael David Crawford
michael at geometricvisions.com
Sun Mar 30 20:17:05 EDT 2008
Kevin Phillips (home) wrote:
> What's the general consensus with regard to the new proposals coming out
> of Warner?
The consensus of the MusicThoughts mailing list (for music industry
professionals) is that the artists and songwriters will see very little
revenue from it, while the collecting agency will be rolling in dough.
That seems to be the case with traditional recording societies; they
don't see any guarantee that it will be any different.
The proposal is also unfair to deaf people and those who don't like
music (there ARE such people), and doesn't cover other kinds of media
that's shared over the Internet, such as videos, pr0n and warez. If the
tax were expanded to cover all those, the fees would become
exhorbitantly expensive.
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Michael David Crawford
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