Re: [microsound] Mixing up the music industry

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more interesting is the claim that if majors begin to directly 
collect and distribute royalties from broadcast, etc (which has been 
traditionally handled by the PRO's-Performing Rights Organizations) 
that those institutions would collapse... and hence independents 
(both publishers-labels, and artists) would be left with no avenue 
for ensuring royalty collections for the use of their material... or 
have to police it themselves which is daunting if not impossible. 
what seems to be unconsidered in the article is the potential cost 
(to the majors) of doing that royalty collection and distribution 
internationally.

anyone else conjecture as to the effect of such a bypassing of the 
performing rights organizations?

>it's interesting considering that there are now more independent record
>labels now than at any point in history. techno labels alone number in
>the thousands.
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>g.
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>m mouth wrote:
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>  > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3264083.stm
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>>  worth a read if you sell music.
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