Post #12339 by bigbrotiki on Wed, Oct 30, 2002 2:17 PM

"Profiting" is relative, how many will Swanky be selling all in all, 40 or 50 max? And that little money he'll be making is a fair exchange for his years of collecting and then making the songs available to the interested, songs that otherwise would languish in the vaults.
I am all for the artists getting royalties, but for that esoteric, miniscule distribution stuff it's just not realistic. And the artists would not get it anyway: Years ago, after I wrote the liner notes for the Ryko Arthur Lyman Taboo re-issue, I proudly brought a copy to the New Otani in Waikiki and had Arthur sign it, which he did sort of off-handedly: He told me that, (to my embarrasment), he was not going to see a dime from that re-issue!

And some copyright costs simply will keep pop culture buried forever, case in point is the Lilo + Stitch movie, which initially was going to have Blue Hawaii as a title song, and much more original Evis music than it has now, which would have made the film much cooler.
If even Disney can't afford Elvis royalties anymore, who can? The copyright holders will just sit on the stuff forever, and nobody will get to see/hear it, out of greed. All this stuff already HAS made it's money for the involved! Pop culture for the people!