February 4, 2008

Want Better Music? Don't Stiff the Songwriters

On the other side of the argument, record labels and webcasters -- who squared off during last year's battle over performance royalties -- have teamed up this time around, saying songwriters and publishers are making too much money and stunting the music industry's growth.

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Record labels also think songwriters and publishers are getting too much of the pie.

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Why should you care? Because music is bad enough already. Cutting songwriters out of the equation not only means that manufactured bands that rely on them will sound worse. It also means bands that do their own songwriting will have a tougher time surviving.


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