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The worm has turned
Now I know why the RIAA is silent Microsoft is backing this. They are operating under the long standing license that a University has always had. The law also is different for a analog feed over video line.
This is so cool MIT has used the law to screw over the RIAA. The license they have is a performance license, and
because of it recording studios are cut out of the loop.
performance royalties go the artist not the studio's. The studio's have publishing rights, not performance rights.
In the past publishing was where the money was at. The performance rights belong the musicians. Now the contracts leeched most of this money back to pay for promotion, publication, the recording engineer's cocaine habit, etc. But once the cost had been recouped the performance money was for the most part the bands, and what ever deal they had with their manager, if they have one. That is until they returned to the studio to make another recording, at which time they where right back into indentured servitude.
good show MIT !
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