Re: (TV) Salon: "Courtney Love Does the Math"

[Maurice Rickard <maurice@mac.com>]

At 10:27 AM -0700 6/15/00, g grant wrote:
> Two questions:
>
> 1) Will the 2 majors own the rights to any schmuk who
> posts their tune on mp3.com?

Even though I'm generally cynical about such things, the answer would 
seem to be "no."  From their Q&A page 
(http://progress.mp3.com/?cp=progress_link2): "Yes, MP3.com has 
reached groundbreaking agreements with the Warner Music Group and BMG 
Entertainment to cover the recordings they own."  The whole flap over 
the MyMP3.com thing seems to be mainly about mp3 copies of tunes in 
the majors' catalogs--the unsigned stuff, not in the catalogs, 
shouldn't be covered by any agreement.  It'd sure suck if I was wrong 
on this, though.

> 2) In the Albini article, what does he mean by points?

Percentage points.  Not sure if they're calculated net or gross; I'd 
guess gross on the label side and net on the artist side--there goes 
the cynicism again....



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