Ok ASCAP says they pay the original artists 90% of what they collect. Is this minus operating expenses? I've read several articles, that state, when you download an mp3 for 99 cents, the artists gets 8 cents(I know it's nothing to do with ascap).
Now my main question. A man invents an original tool for fixing a certain part of a cars drive train. He gets a manufaturer to mass produce the tool, and they sell them for 10 bucks a piece. Now a mechanic buys this tool and uses it in his profession which is open to the public. He earns his living through this public orientated profession, using this tool and others like it, having paid for it once with no further royalties required by him, or the garage for which he works. He's got a hundred tools, and I've got a hundred karaoke cds which I've paid an average of 15 dollars a piece. Could be music cds, but they're still my tools. Creating that tool was a work of art, just like most music is a work of art(a few are not IMO...
). As a matter of fact, no music today is original, because the masters covered those notes every which way possible, and only the words make a song unique(I have read this many times). Doesn't matter to me anyway, my question is, if I bought my cd, just like he bought that tool, why shouldn't he or the garage he works for, have to pay royalties every year, on the tools they use? Any thoughts?
...people find ways to make money off of someone elses work, as attitudes and laws change. It wasn't long ago, that the thought of bottling water, and selling it was ridiculas. What's next.......Air?......
