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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
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.
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Yet many defenders of excessive copyright talk about how the evil pirates are "stealing" from the poor starving artists. It's kind of tough for pirates to "steal" money from the artists when the corporations have already stolen it.