[wku man]

Sing it once; get paid once.

Okay, in that case, I want you to go buy a car, and drive it once. Then give it to me at no cost, so I can drive it and pass it along to someone else.

When someone creates (writes) a song, he owns it. It is his property, just like your car and home are your property. If there is money to be made off the song, (the property), it is the right of the songwriter, or whoever owns the rights to the property, to determine how the money will be made, and to whom it will go. Sing it once and get paid once? Yeah right, tell that to Bill Gates, or anyone else who owns intellectual property.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[meadsjn]

By your flawed reasoning, if I buy a car, the manufacturer would be charging me in perpetuity for every mile I drive, prohibiting me from loaning the car to my neighbor without additional payment to the manufacturer, dictating how and when I may drive the vehicle, and how and when I might sell the vehicle to some other party.

[a fool in paradise]

Sing it once and get paid once? Yeah right, tell that to Bill Gates, or anyone else who owns intellectual property.

Tell that to the guy who wrote MS-DOS and was paid $10,000 flat rate. The guy never even saw a penny a copy for the billions of installations of it over the years...

More like the business practices of Alan Klein or the suits at Atlantic records who stole the US publishing money on the Beatles, the Stones, and the Stax Records artists when the slipped them revised "contracts".