smoe.org mailing lists
ivan@stellysee.de
| From | "Samuel A. Rebelsky" <rebelsky@grinnell.edu> |
| Subject | SoundExchange Fiasco |
| Date | Sat, 4 Nov 2006 13:20:21 -0600 |
[Part 1 text/plain US-ASCII (1.1 kilobytes)]
(View Text in a separate window)
I don't recall seeing the following posted on Audities, but I'll
admit that I sometimes fall behind ...
SoundExchange, the RIAA-created body that collects license fees for
the digital distribution of recordings, is about to gain control of
the fees (up to 2000 or so) for a number of artists that they can't
rack down. An article on the situation can be found at
http://www.bigozine2.com/features06/FWexchange.html
The list of unpaid artists can be found at
http://63.236.111.137/jsp/unpaidArtistList.jsp
The depressing thing is that they clearly have not spent much effort
tracking people down. Famous artists appear on the list (Peter,
Paul, and Mary; the Replacements). A quick scan suggests that a
bunch of people discussed on this list also appear there (The
Plimsouls jumped out as one, but there are certainly others).
Anyway, I'm writing to encourage those of you who know artists on
that list to write to those artists. (The danger is that the artists
will hear from a bunch of people, but I'd guess that's okay.)
-- SamR
For assistance, please contact
the smoe.org administrators.