On 5/19/2014 11:49 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 11:28 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote:This is why most songs, commercial computer programs, etc. are registered.Many musicians are member of collecting societies. The celebrity musicians benefit from the mafia-like approach of those collecting societies. The unknown musicians even lose the right, to allow other people to play their music for free, to become more popular, while they get less money from the collecting societies, than their membership fees are.
That is their choice, isn't it? Nobody forces them to join.But it also gains them protection. Many don't have the time or the means to follow up on copyright violations; the RIAA has both.
Jerry