[American Faith Today]

I can see both sides of this. Artists should be compensated and by all means copyright and intellectual property rights should be upheld. But the complaining about decreased album sales and so forth- it's just the way the industry itself is going. I'm probably in the minority almost as far as someone going out and still occasionally buying a cd or something. Heck, you can listen to entire albums on YouTube in a lot of cases.

[plain talk]

I’m a musician who supported myself with a regular job and played on the side. This allowed me the lifestyle I preferred and ability to play whatever I wanted without having to worry about selling out to make ends meet. This is a decision I made in the 1970s.

For most musicians there is little money to be made in this industry and it is getting worse. While I sort of feel sorry for them they made their choice and I made mine. Money for nothing and the chicks for free, right?

[DaveyB]

I never heard of the alternative rock band Cracker. I'm guessing that 150 million is approximately a million dollars every time a song of theirs was played.

I thought ASCAP and BMI paid the royalties, but what do I know, I never even heard of the alternative rock band Cracker.

[Bobalu]

Someday everyone will admit that the old copyright rules simply cannot work in the digital age.

New strategies must be employed to make a living from music and most other art forms.

There is no going back, adapt or perish.

[Graybeard58]

I just read that a woman is suing the t.v. show, “Big Bang Theory” based on her recent discovery that her mother evidently copy righted in 1937 “Soft Kitty, Warm Kitty etc. that the Big Bang Theory has used several times.

1937! Where does it end?