Europe orders unified music payments
The United States of Itunes
EUROPEAN LAWMAKERS have told music copyright groups in all member states to get their act together... literally.
With the current system, companies like Apple and Napster have to approach the relevant organisation in every single country throughout the European Union to negotiate download costs and payments to artists.
The European Commission has told music copyright groups to end a system of contracts that allows artists to collect payments only from an agency based in their own country, pointing out that the 24 societies were guilty of breaking European anti-trust rules.
The new ruling will mean that one centralised agency will deal with the work of dozens of different collection societies for both paid downloads and all other flavours of broadcast media.
A bunch of whining millionaires, including Pink Floyd has-been Dave Gilmour, doddery old crooner Charles Aznavour, eighties headband-wearing, guitar-footling old duffer Mark Knopfler and soft jazz where-has-she-been-for-the-last-20-years singer Sade, have all signed something saying they can't afford to heat their diamond-encrusted swimming pools if we aren't forced to pay 15 quid for a CD with one decent track on it. Apparently. µ
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Woooh!
Yay! Those greedy corporates must be wiiing in their trunks!!Psuedo-writer that never was
Anybody who has the audacity to call David Gilmour a "has-been" should have their word processor promptly confiscated and each of their fingers broken in several places!David Gilmour IS god
how darew you talk this way of David Gilmour He is one of the best guitarists of all time. And by the way he gives millions to charities. So leave him alone will you!Ah, but here's the rub...
This is the price we pay for letting on that there are indeed various Got Talents across the world! Simon wilst shorely be the derth of all! "Simon Says" and I reckon we all boot-scoot-boogie like rake Hessians! God will get'st You, Simon! And'st I'm not meaning the cowl-wearing rock star front man for the Apostles, before they petered-out. You know who you are. I don't mean to be rude on your hit parade, but you sir, are no royalties. I can't even find your song on Touch Tunes!I can't believe how much EU pays
I can't believe how much EU countries are being charged for songs and the like. $1 USD is what I would pay per song and that is it. I don't buy DRM crap, so I end up not buying anything from itunes ($1.49 USD for non-DRM songs, too much). Sad really.I would never pay $30+ USD for a 10-15 track CD, that is highway robbery!
Rise of the indies once again I'd say.
,ValentineS
I feel this needs repeating:
Anybody who has the audacity to call David Gilmour a "has-been" should have their word processor promptly confiscated and each of their fingers broken in several places!don't forget
that the artists also need an extra 45 years to make it worthwhile to create music... and that it's important to the artist that Apple's iTunes Store is crippled with DRM.If he was big then,
and isn't now, then isn't he a hasbeen?And isn't he lucky to have been a has in the first place?
I bet you're over 30.
;-)
Yes, I'm over 30
So what's your point? David Gilmour sells out his concerts now just as he did 20 years ago.Talent doesn't degrade! "Has-Been" simply doesn't apply.
Move along, nothing to see here but garbage writing.