[Mr Ducklips]

Consider it part of their tuition. If you screw song writers and performers, expect to get screwed in return. Otherwise, let's press for more laws that aren't enforced and call ourselves Handgun, Inc.

[Amerigomag]

If you screw song writers and performers, expect to get screwed in return.

The only people being taken are the tax payers when the songwriters and performers are allowed to use the public airways to promote their work product for their own personal gain.

Let them use the public airway AND retain their work product protection but charge them a user fee for the service.

Say $100,000.00 for every performance ported over broadcast televising and $5.00 for for every instance their music is ported over broadcast radio.

If an industry wants to use taxpayer supported infrastructure to personally enrich themselves let them pay for it.

Until they are willing to pay for the use of a public supported infrastructure then their work product is in the public domain and it's not for profit use is at the sole discretion of the public.