Post #153047 by mrs. pineapple on Fri, Apr 15, 2005 11:06 AM

On 2005-03-27 13:45, TikiGardener wrote:

If you allow an advertising company to use you art to sell a product. Well the word that best describes what you do starts with a W.

I think the reality is that musicians don't own the rights to their music. The publisher owns the rights. I have lotsa friends in the music biz, some more succesful than others. They give up the rights when they start out, to pay for the record to get made & distributed and to pay for the tour to support the record. I think that's why you hear of so many musicians being totally broke, even though they've sold millions of records. Music is a business, you gotta have money to make money. When I hear the Ramones in a Pepsi commercial or the Clash in a Jaguar commercial, it's sad, but I know Joey or Joe didn't sell the rights the that song, BMI or whoever owns it did.
When Michael Jackson gives up the Beatles Catalog to Bank of America to pay off his legal fees and the mortgage on Neverland, the shit's really gonna hit the fan. But this is America, we reap what we sow.