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Having not received a response, I am asking the Trichordist/David Lowery to remove certain misleading content from this blog. The details can be found here: http://olbrychtpalmer.net/2012/06/14/trichordist-strawmen/
I read your post. While you are correct that your stance has been mischaracterized, you are still engaging in piracy. Regardless of how you creatively add to the material you steal, you are still stealing it. By posting the resulting work, which contains material owned by artists other than yourselves, on youtube you are granting that website the right to make a profit off of content you don’t own.
Taking works created by others and adding to them or changing them is nothing new. Artists reinterpret the works of Shakespeare or Jane Austen for film or stage all the time. Those writers’ works are in the public domain. Musicians record and perform songs written by others all the time, as well. The Beatles had a great hit with the Isley Brothers song “Twist and Shout.” “My Sweet Lord” was a fairly extensive re-write of “She’s So Fine,” to the point that it was almost a different song. Almost. The writers of the originals still received their royalties. So, no, you and your fellow pirates aren’t doing something fundamentally new and even if you were, that doesn’t grant you the right to steal copies of other people’s work or to grant rights that you do not own.
You are correct that streaming does not intersect with what you do
It would very helpful if the Spotify Per Play Rates article was updated, unless they are the same 🙂
https://thetrichordist.com/2015/09/03/spotify-per-stream-rates-continue-to-drop-00408-more-free-users-less-money-per-stream/
It’s a bear to calculate and we don’t get paid for our work. Maybe in another few months. It’s definitely not higher.
David, I commend you for sharing this detailed information about small to mid size touring bands. Its a field that so few really understand the economics, but yet, so many are curious about. You are not only a great musician but an astute business person as well. I certainly sympathize with all musicians…yeah, except for the <1% everyone fantasizes about being, or envies. As a business person myself, it seems the current state of affairs in music (artist being shorted in streaming) follows the same trend in every field, i.e. free markets always create winners and losers as technology, innovation and buyers tastes change. With the invention of making records (albums, discs, etc) musicians now had a way to make money by distributing their work for revenue. Then, with radio, musicians had a route to further share their work for revenue. Then touring became popular and artists found another way to share their work for revenue. So at times in history, these changes seemed to be a windfall for musicians. Today, touring still exists, but the working class can afford so little for ticket prices, it leaves so little for the artists, sometimes prob. loosing money on shows. Streaming robbed the physical sales and never properly compensated the artists. Radio has become so segmented with so many genres and less people listening due to streaming which causes reduced ad revenues. I would think radio revenue is worse than streaming. Then, with so many genre's of music these days, its harder to attract or hold an audience. Of course, I say all this, and Taylor Swift brings in close to $1B on her recent tour, truly remarkable. This demonstrates the top end of the market can still work despite how rough the field has become. I am curious if you agree with my assessment? (I have witnessed this in a lot of fields) And more importantly, did streaming undercut existing laws to get to where it is today, or was it lack of laws, or maybe lack of unity amongst artists, i.e. inability to fight, like we see the unions doing today for the motion picture and TV fields?