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Originally Posted by Shaggy
So in other words, copyright serves to benefit the corporation, but the artist doesn't get squat.
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Music corporations prey on young musicians and get them to sign away their rights on the promise of fame and riches. Even when they do win the right to have someone else release their records they find that the music corporation owns the physical tapes it is recorded onto and won't release them. That was what happened to Angelic Upstarts with Warner Bros, so the CD re-release of their first 2 albums had to be made from a vinyl source. Here & Now (Planet Gong without Daevid Allen) never did get their rights back from Charley Records, and have never made any money at all from any of the re-releases.