Tom wrote:
(The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of
Canada)-SOCAN

That's great. I have no problem with this sort of activity. Neil Young
of course makes lots of money and if he plays some Pearl Jam during a
concert or vica-versa then he is supposed to pay a fee. This is a
matter of routine for bars and restaurants that use recorded music to
entertain paying customers. I've heard of this happening in the past
before. Thanks for the input.

"Greg Carr" <gregpcarr@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
news:1168829895.566038.249640@a75g2000cwd.googlegr oups.com...
But it doesn't just happen to high profile people like Sarah McLachlan, Neil
Young and others.

What pisses me off, and this pisses off most people who make their living on
music (I don't anymore) is that there is a huge fund based on a sur-tax levy on
cassettes, CD-RW's and other stuff that amounts to $millions. It's supposedly
held in trust by SOCAN but they have never found a way to distribute it to the
artists. They need to clear that up before they tackle the "downloading"
problem.

Most up-and-coming musicians side-step the record labels, produce their own shit
and give it away on-line for free. Just to gain exposure.

On-line downloading is the end of the big record labels. The cheesy bastards
who Joni Mitchell recently said caused her to stop making music. She hasn't cut
a record in over a decade.

Tom wrote:
I have her Greatest Hits CD and I play it at work but I found the later
releases of hers to be unmemorable. I've heard the distribution
criticism of SOCAN before but don't know enough about the issue to have
an opinion. The labels still seem to be making lots of money and some
ppl actually pay for ringtones and downloaded music. I've yet to meet a
homeless person or a warehouse worker who used to work as an executive
of a label.