In regards to Apple’s pitch to making song samples 90 seconds…
“It’s like giving away ice cream samples–someone has to pay the cost,” said Rick Carnes, president of the Songwriters Guild of America. “I think it would be a good thing for consumers to go to 90 seconds. But they’re tripling the amount of time, and they want it for free. I think there ought to be compensation. I believe anytime you use music, you ought to reward the people making the music.”
Yup. Just like ice cream samples.
Except for that fact that ice cream has a cost of goods sold.
But doesn’t a sample have a cost? infrastructure, bandwidth, etc?
Yup, but that’s paid by Apple…
So someone does pay the cost and it is not the Songwriters Guild of America.
yet another example of the old-line orgs just not getting it
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