In Reply to: A lot has changed since......................................... posted by Kal Rubinson on January 22, 2020 at 14:12:48:
Thanks Kal. But Heymann's difficulty was not with technology or acceptance but the ratio of costs v. turnover of which many costs ( e.g. royalties) are scalable against turnover. So, the game remains the same and, as you imply, with rules for minority genres set by those of majority interest. This, so far, results in a financial skew hugely in favour of pop music. Of course a utilitarian could argue that the skew is justifiable and if minority genres of music cannot survive then so be it. It is all to the benefit of the majority.
Having been professionally involved in setting royalty rates for the use of sound recordings for a large part of my working life all I can say is it will all turn out to be a honey pot for the lawyers :-).
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