An article from Cnet.com regarding iTunes and the way some music publishers in the USA look at it has delivered enough elements for dicussion. According to the online magazine songwriters, composers, and music publishers want compensation for iTunes’ 30-second song samples. Here’s a comment from David Renzer, CEO Universal Music Publishing Group that sounds rather alienlike: “(On iTunes), you can stream radio, and you can preview tracks, things that we should be getting paid performance income for.”
Since the music industry can’t obtain the fees through negotiations, they have begun lobbying Congress in the USA to pass legislation that would require anyone who sells a download to pay a performance fee. If the music publishers get their go, it’s very likely that Apple will once again raise the price per download so says Side-Line which als dedicated an article to it.
To be continued.
