[OT] Re: Stallman Admits to Copyright Infringement

["Jimmy O'Regan" <jimregan@litsu.ie>]

On Tue, 16 May 2000, Steve Greenland wrote:

) So I can loan out my CDs up to about 1283 times each, making the worst
) case assumption that each loanee makes a copy. (Based on a list price
) of $12.99, and an assumption (aka wild-assed guess) that the copyright
) holder makes %30 of that.)
) 
Actually, the part that gets considered for payment to the copyright
holder is generally only around 20% and from that, there's the performance
payment, the copyright royalty, yet another cut for the record  company. 
Subtract another 10-20% from that for the publishing company, and you can
probably understand why people like Metallica are getting so annoyed over
that sort of thing.
) Cool.
) 
) Steve
) 
) 
) 

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