"..the RIAA’s affiliate organization SoundExchange claims it has the right to collect royalties for any artist, no matter if they have signed with an RIAA label or not." - Proving protection rackets are still alive and well..
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Brendan Borlase is a Systems and Network Administrator living in Adelaide, Australia, having lived, worked and breathed Information Technology for over 12 years. Learn more.
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Apr 30th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
As someone who is a member of ASCAP and holds copyrights to several songs It not only amazes me how many FALSE Claims RIAA and SoundExchange make but how CRB would favor the increased fees for Internet Radio ONLY. I can say I have NEVER seen a Royalty check from Soundexchange. Not only does it apply ONLY to a specific area (net radio) but it does not provide anything for composers, songwriters, lyricists, and music publishers and we are the MAIN Copyright holders of songs regardless what Artist recorded it and What Record Lable recorded it.