You Tube and myspace provide incredible showcases for all artists' work and also allow people power to make its own choices.
The Performing Rights Societies are supposed to be the protectors and collectors of rights and income for songwriters like me. If TV or radio stations play my full quality audio or visual work, then I expect a reasonable royalty.
The greedy media multinationals, and not the artists, are behind the recent You Tube fiasco.
The usual bunch of big company exploitative scum trying to weedle maximum cash for no effort as their boat goes down. They no longer invest in development, or have any creative input whatsoever. They've finally got what they deserve - Simon Cowell.
200,000 viewings of one of my 30 year old videos on YouTube earn me nothing,
But this is not the same as 200,000 television plays.
It would be fitting if the creators received an appropriate remuneration from the 'You Tubes' of this world. The great thing about the net is that it has the potential of excluding many of the big business parasites.
We're mainly talking sharing and free marketing here, but obviously the words 'free' and 'market' have rather a bad name at present!
(P.S. Is You Tube virtually a multinational?)
Love,
John.
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On that topic, is there any chance of your back catalog being made available from the Amazon.com MP3 store or the iTunes store?
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