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Written by Mike Stahl   
Sunday, 22 November 2009 01:28
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TechDirt has an interesting article that discusses why it's hard to be the little guy and still get paid by ASCAP, BMI and SESAC.

As for the claim that these organizations help bring in money for those musicians, well, that's not seen either. We've already seen how they only give money to big name artists in most cases, because that's all they're able to track. In fact, the article talks to one musician who's upset about all the venues closing, but is still registering his songs with ASCAP. When asked if he's received any royalty check at all, the answer was no. So, how do the collections organizations respond? They tell them to become more famous:
"I'm sorry to hear that, but what I would like to tell him is that he needs to write a hit song," BMI's Bailey said.

How nice. They funnel all the money to big name artists, force venues to close so new artists can't become famous, and then when asked about giving money to those up-and-coming artists, they flippantly tell them to become more famous.

http://techdirt.com/articles/20091118/0916136988.shtml

http://www.sctimes.com/article/20091117/NEWS01/111170004/Sounds-of-silence?-Fees-spur-venues-to-scrap-live-music 

 
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