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OK you know when you go to itunes and you listen to the 30 samples of the song to determine if you want to buy it? Well the music industry now wants to be paid for that. So I'm guessing next they will go after the Wal-marts and Best Buys where you put the headphones on and do the same thing. OK you have to ask - really where does it end? I mean do we need to pay to look at the album artwork next?

So in light of this get ready for music prices to go up because you know they will.....

Music publishers: iTunes not paying fair share

Songwriters, composers, and music publishers are making preparations to one day collect performance fees from Apple and other e-tailers for not just traditional music downloads but for downloads of films and TV shows as well. Those downloads contain music after all.

These groups even want compensation for iTunes' 30-second song samples.

At a time when many iTunes shoppers are still fuming over Apple's first-ever increase in song prices, the demands by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI), and other performing-rights groups, would likely lead to more price hikes at iTunes. For many, this would also undoubtedly confirm their perception that those overseeing the music industry are greedy.

"In the U.S. while we do get paid a mechanical (licensing fee) from ITunes, we are not getting any performance income from Apple yet," David Renzer, chairman and CEO of Universal Music Publishing Group, said in interview late last month with entertainment-industry publication, Encore. "(On iTunes) you can stream radio, and you can preview (tracks), things that we should be getting paid performance income for.

So what do you think? Is the music industry getting a little greedy here? I mean in my opinion its those 30 sec samples that sell songs, kinda like a commercial. Maybe itunes needs to charge them for advertising - I mean think about it.

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Re: How Greedy can the music industry be?
Yeah that makes no sense at all! You hit the nail on the head--how greedy! People need to listen to a snippet of a song most times before knowing if they want to buy it. Maybe sometimes you hear a radio song and know you want to buy it but you see the other songs by that artist and wonder if they're any good too.
Have they already demanded to be paid for this or is this just something they're mulling over?

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Re: How Greedy can the music industry be?

These are the same people that also said they should get paid performance fees every time your cell phone rings and it plays one of the songs they own the rights to. Apple should charge them advertising fees for selling their product with the 30 second previews.

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Re: How Greedy can the music industry be?

yeah see its greedy ppl like that who make me want to go yo ho ho


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Yup after this I'm joining the yo ho ho and a bottle o' rum train!! Hee Hee

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