Not surprisingly, music distributing corporations have developed over time a business model that maximizes their own profits. Lawsuits over free file-sharing provide a great opportunity to revisit that model. I believe that music diversity and individual artistic freedom would be best served by revising copyright law so that an artist’s work is licensed to the artist and not the sponsoring corporation. Technology means change for everything, including outdated business models.
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Amen. The story I am the most familiar with about this issue is Weird Al Yankovic's You’re Pitiful, a parody of James Blunt's You're Beautiful. Apparently James Blunt had no problem with the parody, but his sponser Universal Records did. Here is a good synopsis of that story.
Oops I meant Atlantic Records not "Universal Records". The editing saga continues
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