Riptide360 t1_jdt0d31 wrote
I wish we would rework the music licensing model to reduce lawsuits and make it easier for artists to earn royalties. We already pay music subscription service fees maybe a right to remix licenses where you can borrow freely from the library in exchange for revenue share.
pohatu771 t1_jdtrnag wrote
The license allows creators (or their publishers, whether they are in control of that or not) control over their work and who it is associated with.
I wouldn’t want my work to be freely available to whatever random person wants to incorporate it into theirs, even if they are sharing revenue. I want to know it isn’t being tied to a person or message I dislike.
wotmate t1_jduuo6s wrote
Almost 80 years after the fact and you long dead, you wouldn't care.
pohatu771 t1_jdv8tf8 wrote
Someone would.
If some neo-Nazi group used “That’ll Be The Day” over images of a Jewish president, I think Buddy Holly’s wife would have an issue with that.
(Not that Universal, who owns the recording, or Paul McCartney, who owns the publishing would ever allow that.)
wotmate t1_jdxhr8b wrote
That's the point though, it's not theirs, they just own it because of Disney's copyright system.
Beethoven would be losing his shit if he knew that school children were mangling his music with recorders, but he's long dead. Copyright, like patents, exist so that the original creator can make money from their creations, not so that some troll can sue people long after the creator is dead.
remarkablemayonaise t1_jdvdtwq wrote
Wagner wasn't as much of a Nazi as the Nazis made him out to be. That's the risk of art, if you make something public property (even with licenses) someone will take it to an extreme. The English St George's flag suffers a similar fate. Is the family of St George going to start chasing the EDF?
pohatu771 t1_jdvjaq4 wrote
That’s the whole point of the license - it isn’t public property. It is owned by one entity and licensed to others, based on their proposed use of it.
The flag of a country is, generally, public property.
Riptide360 t1_jdts5zg wrote
Are you on Apple Music? Post a link and I'll add it to my creator playlist of music to play.
AttonJRand t1_jdv4hyy wrote
In practice it gives mega corporation music labels that control, over the artists even.
Which is why they lobby so heavily, and try to spread the above commenters narrative.
pohatu771 t1_jdv84xl wrote
The solution to that is to help composers retain publishing rights, not open the gates for everyone to do whatever they want as long as the composer gets paid.
Songwriters frequently have their own publishing company. They share some of the money to run it, but retain control.
pineappleshnapps t1_jdumxg4 wrote
Artists and writers make next to nothing off subscription fees, I doubt this would help them much, and you can already allow someone to use your material, or license other peoples work.
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