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Originally Posted by RJVB
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05-09-2022 07:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Litterick
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I don't use my car every day. If it were cheaper I'd have no problem with booking a car that drove itself to my house then drove away when I was done.
When I was young I dreamed about cool cars. I grew up.
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Originally Posted by RJVB
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It's kinda like "pay to play" all updated for 2022.
People really are the worst.
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Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
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Originally Posted by Marinero
I think this is some of the music in question;
A lot is ambient music.
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Originally Posted by Litterick
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Originally Posted by Marinero
We crossed over from an analog to a digital world. For me that would be March, 1986.
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Originally Posted by Jimmy Smith
Get out while you have some brain cells left.
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Originally Posted by citizenk74
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Nothing new under the sun. In the early 60s you could buy covers of current hits. I recall buying Hey Little Cobra, not by the rip chords, but by a group with a similar name, like the parachutes or something. To my 12 year old ears it sounded like the record I heard on the radio, and I saved a few cents. There would be a whole rack of these faux hits in the drug store. When the Beatles hit, there were fake Beatles records all over the place.
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We had them in Britain – a series of albums called Top of the Pops, each with a pretty girl on the cover and some of the hits of the last few months inside. Reg Dwight sung on several of them, before he became Elton John.
The situation described in the article that started this thread is quite different. The Nordics are not pushing copies but pastiches. They are not contracting musicians to copy songs, but commissioning new songs in the styles of those that are popular on the streams. The makers of the Top of the Pops albums were obliged to pay songwriting royalties, but avoided mechanical royalties. The Nordics are avoiding both. They play a fee to the composer and musicians for their work. They own songs and the recordings entirely. They pay no royalties. Or they pay reduced royalties, far less than the usual rates.
It is all explained in the article:
Dagens Nyheter also discovered – via the register of Swedish publishing body STIM – that music from over 500 of these “fake artists” have been created by just 20 songwriters. The publication says it even found one composer who is the creator of songs for no less than 62 fake artists on Spotify; his music is currently attracting 7.7 million listeners on the service each month.
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Originally Posted by Litterick
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And look what became of him.*
*What did become of him?
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Originally Posted by citizenk74
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I blame everything on Billy Idol;
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Originally Posted by Cunamara
He avoided relating property to happiness. Maybe for personal reasons?
Don't worry. We're going to own nothing and be happy. The great pimp will make it so.
I trust my government and I trust the music business. Really, no shit.
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Originally Posted by Litterick
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Originally Posted by Cunamara
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Originally Posted by Cunamara
They were careless. West coast rap was the beginning of cultural decline in the US.
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Originally Posted by Litterick
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Originally Posted by Litterick
If you choose. Choices are good.
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Originally Posted by Cunamara
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HeadRush?
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