Josh Kear puts Gov't Music Regulations on BLAST

Let's take a look at this scam system... it's corrupt from the bottom to the top. A TRUE liberal is generous with their own goods and services (not with-holding business profit but leaving room for personal decisions of charity - NOT dictated by others).

A socialist (commie) is generous with the goods and services of others (while enriching themselves and cutting others off at the pass; from interfering in the power scheme - same for business & gov.).

No one who isn't embedded in this current system will ever have a voice to LEGALLY determine their own destiny. The rigging of the law to collectively ham-string intellectual property in this venue has determined that. The commie in the seats have done your/our collective bargaining for you/us. It's fine for those who turn a blind eye to what they are in bed with, as they prosper in it. However, it will bite the millions who had their voices/rights taken away, by design.

I'm telling you boys, unless you jettison this scam out of your life and work together to build something better, you'll be spinning your wheels in the ditch. No one will pull you out. Sony has an angle in this campaign, just as Google had in their earlier campaigns to get the public behind them when it served their interests... not so much when the outcome was less beneficial to them. So maybe Sony can bump up they rate they pay out to some insignificant level while cutting their competition out.

Use of anti-trust laws against the likes of Google & Amazon is a better endeavor at this point in time... class action suit? Once these companies are reaching success in domination of multiple platforms, you are talking to a beast without ears. They only thing they hear is how their bottom line is affected. Hurt their pocket book and they listen better. Break them up and they are easier to manage by smaller number of patrons.

And the beat goes on... Who is your partner in this? It's certainly not your friend.

John, I'm not trying to be an ass. But your comment annoyed me. Have you never heard of the Grateful Dead or Fish or any jazz musicians? Thousands of artists who produced records with no help from hired songwriters. Your post seemed like you weren't acknowledging any of them or the hundreds of musicians who cut their own albums and release their own stuff (Wiz) without hiring a full-time writer to come up with the melodies/lyrics

I got that letter John got from SONY/ATV music, the publisher of BOC's music. It seems the Copyright Royalty Board does set the compensation for song writer/publishers for streaming. 

What really needs to be addressed is the new paradigm of streaming and non-ownership of recorded music. Since no one wants to own music if you can hear anything anytime with streaming, the rate cannot be equivalent to terrestrial or especially satellite or internet radio. "Radio" is all there is, and it must be compensated adequately for content creators. It has to be more in line with mechanical reproduction royalties, divided by some factor of plays/owner, or some formula that is fair to the creators.

I signed. I hope the case can be made strongly enough for the CRB to think past the noise from the tech companies wanting the music for basically butkiss will make to the board.

www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-07/songwriters-sing-blues-over-diminished-royalties-from-streaming

Awarding royalties for songwriters is a byzantine process. While record labels can negotiate with Spotify on the open market, songwriters’ rates in the U.S. are subject to government regulation due to a law written in the era of the player piano. Some publishers, which represent songwriters and administer their royalties, already have their own deals with the streaming companies, but the hearing this week gives them a chance to set a new bar for the arrangements.

While recording artists have turned to touring to make up for lost CD sales, songwriters have no similar recourse. The number of composers working in Nashville has shrunk to less than 400 today from around 3,500 about 13 years ago, according to Lee Thomas Miller, one of the songwriters who may testify at the hearing.

“Spotify or Pandora will play a song millions and millions of times, and those are worth $10,” said Miller, who has written hits performed by country stars Garth Brooks, Tim McGraw and Brad Paisley. “The business of songwriting and publishing is over unless they change the way we get paid.”

What would be a fair price? Let's just say per million streams. What should a song generate via streaming?

That would make sense, wouldn't it? We have no way to know what they generate in advertising as they don't want anyone to know that...how about a thousandth (I think that's right) of what we make for mechanical sales? $.00925. That would be $9250 for every million streams. That would have been $666,000 for the 72 Million streams of "Need You Now". (Interesting number lol) I think he said the four writers split $6000? Can't remember.
But that will never happen.

Hell, at this point how about $.000925? That would be $925 per million. That's still robbery, but SOME sort of compulsory rate would be a miracle. I'm sure Spotify and Pandora will say that would kill their ability to make a profit...but is that our fault that their company can't turn a profit on the back of someone else's property?

As someone pointed out, the dirty little secret is that the major labels (which are also the major publishers) own a stake in Spotify and Pandora.

So - to equal the $6.5 million dollar salary that Pandora CEO Brian McAndrews made - under my proposed .000925 per stream, one would need 7 BILLION streams. We are not asking for too much.

Note to self. Apply at Spotify. Stat.

That's still not enough

The Pharrell math I got was 0.00006279069... 2700/43000000