Slashdot has a story today about the views of a major recording artist on this issue. Well, TWO major recording artists, actually, since the story includes a pointer to an earlier story about Courtney Love. Notice that neither Courtney Love nor Janice Ian have any detectable sympathies with the 'industry' itself, the record labels and other extortionists who exploit the artists and whine to the government about 'their' artists getting cheated, when they've signed these poor people at 80/20 royalty ratios... or worse. And are still trying to get recorded music declared 'work for hire' so they don't have to pay artist royalties at all anymore. It'd just be a one-time fee like the plumber or car mechanic.
Slashdot Story:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0...thread&tid=141
Janice Ian (on her own website):
http://www.janisian.com/article-internet_debacle.html
Courtney Love (on Salon.com):
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/
[ July 09, 2002, 19:01: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]