MySpace should set aside some of its revenues into a pool to compensate musicians, says an industry group.
“We think they should pay,” a spokesman for British Music Rights, a group representing songwriters, publishers and performers, told us today.
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At a MusicAlly music industry seminar this week, MySpace’s European VP rejected the idea that MySpace owed anyone performance royalties.
Responding to a question from Jim Griffin, who pointed out that owners of public spaces such as pubs, hotels and stores contribute to a pool of money in exchange for a blanket license, Jamie Kantrowitz said that MySpace already gave musicians enough – in the form of web space, for example.
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Pay people? For what? Artist that decide to post themselves on Myspace? Whatever! It’s not like MySpace is forcing anyone to sign up.
i think they meant to say “i think i want more money!”
Do they think it’s a privilege for myspace to be hosting them? If it wasn’t for myspace they probably wouldn’t hace a website where people actually went to it. It’s just another example of how greedy the artists/industry is.