A news item; what I didn’t know about the on-line ‘sales’ of music. Most recording contracts award the performer 50% of the licensing profits. And only 7% of the sales profits. So an artist would love to have their music ‘licensed’ and not sold. But, when it’s sold on-line, the labels pay the artist the 7% and then turn around and sues the p2p downloaders for illegally downloading ‘licensed’ material. (They can't sue if it were 'sold') That’s some cake. And eating it.
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