Tiki Central / Tiki Music / anybody interested in copying their cd collection of tiki music for me?
Post #443788 by tikiauction on Tue, Mar 31, 2009 5:50 AM
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not sure that i have innovative thoughts on this one. but i'll give it a shot. having been around on the internet since the early 90s like most everyone else here, i can tell you that after the wild west 90s were over, and the RIAA started suing, there was a lot of introspective change in the way people share music. a lot of folks interested in obscure genres like exotica such as ourselves, look towards publicizing old abandoned records that come from defunct publishers and putting them up on mp3 blogs. the rationale for this was that since the records were not published anyway, they are not hurting the income of the artist, dead or alive. now this may or may not be entirely true, since the records companies have recently reissued a lot of old exotica music from the big names(denny, baxter and so forth). as far as i understand from industry sources, the big record companies tacitly tolerate these super-specialized mp3 blogs, because they help publicize obscure music which will not have a market otherwise. uh wait i just realized that has nothing to do with your original questions about whether artists should benefit from used sales. for the reason that artists and record companies for that matter don't profit from used sales, i'm sure i've read somewhere that the sale of used cd and records is actually illegal. obviously no one has been sued for selling a used cd or lp (yet). that whole idea that reselling records being illegal is completely ludicrous to me.
[ Edited by: tikiauction 2009-03-31 05:57 ] |
