OpenBusiness � Blog Archive � Money, Lies and Music
Interesting take on copyright – but more importanty the attempt, and failure, to get some real data from rights societies…
“So could it be that the directors, managers and shareholders of these majors are exploiting the original idea supporting copyright and have created barriers of such size that musicians see giving up their rights as the only way to earn any substantial amount of money in the music industry?
Has this elite created a few (fairly narrow) gates through which artists have to pass to be rewarded for their creativity, leaving pretty much everyone else with talent and creativity unrewarded? Perhaps the collecting societies and industry associations who rely so heavily on major record companies keep this type of information secret, in the interest of their biggest partners lucrative oligopoly market position. It most certainly looks like the whole as not as transparent as a free society such as the UK would ideally want it to be, and an elite are reaping the profits, leaving the rest behind. “
