26 Jan
2004
26 Jan
'04
11:15 a.m.
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:03 am, Edward Barrow wrote:
On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 11:16, Daniel James wrote:
> > But I for one don't have a problem with a share of the money paid
> > by punters on the door of the disco going to the people who made
> > the music, both the DJ and to musicians back up the "sample chain".
I do have a problem with this if the means to manage these funds
involves a bureacracy that has otherwise nothing to do with either
the creation or the appreciation of the music.
> That's fine in principle, but in practice
this requires either a high
> degree of automation, or a layer of bureauracy which will inevitably
> siphon off at least some of those resources. Ironically, being a
> member of the 'royalties police', supposedly defending the interests
> of musicians, is probably a more lucrative career than actually being
> the average musician. I'll bet it offers a regular salary, and you
> get to spend most of your working hours in bars...
I agree with Daniel. If the overheads of managing this stream of
income is too much then it's highly debatable whether it's worth
even factoring into anyones expectations of income stream.
But not, usually, when they're jumping - mostly it
involves going round
bars, shops and hairdressers and anyone else who plays music in public,
trying to find the manager/owner, and getting them to sign the form and
pay for a sticker in the window.
A hidious endeavour to begin with. The idea of storm troopers
threatening bars, shop and hairdressers to extract what will end
up being a totally insignificant amount of money for the MAJORITY
of smaller musos is something I personally want no part of. The
major musos, for which this system works, can probably get along
fine without the extra overhead-depleted income anyway.
I've spent some time looking for a license that excludes expectation
of royalty payments for public performances and so far none exist.
If no one is aware of any such license then I propose "yet another
license" to specifically allow royalty-free performance of material
and ask anyone else interested in this to make contact with me offlist
to craft such a license.
--markc