I wanted to quickly post and discuss about our recent conversation regarding "paid royalties". A quick overview of the email discussion explains the prior purchase of 45rpm records and the ability to legally download the same music located on the 45's. The assumption is since the buyer of the 45's has paid for the music at a previous date, that should be efficient payment to legally download the same music in a current format (ie ITunes). This is a very good thought and topic for debate. One may say this is accurate thought given the prior payment. However, the opposing view would state you paid for the music on a given format and that isn't transferable to new/different formats. What do you all think??
My thoughts are that once you have already paid for a song on a certain format, it now belongs to you! It doesn't really matter that you've changed the format does it?? I can however, see the "other side". As a musician of original music, if my songs were being sold, I would want to get paid for each and every format sold. So for me, I would have to side with the consumer right now....that is of course, until my recordings are published! :-)
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