[Fmpro] Towards zero??

[LesHurdle]

OK  Economics

So please explain in great detail how an ASCAP 'credit' is  
mathematically produced, and given a vast amount of music is never  
sureveyed/sampled/paid...... which genre of music profits by this bad  
MO.  [Think hard ;-)]

Anyone?

Now explain how income from downloads is to be paid?

L

On Oct 31, 2007, at 11:29 PM, Jim Chase wrote:

> Well. it seems that I have the floor, as it were...
> If you can wade through his graduate thesis, Will Page
>
> WillPage-TransmissionConfPaper.pdf
>
> actually has something to say.  You will have to tread carefully
> through five pages of sophomoric cow patties -- in the form of
> redundant tables and explanations -- until the author actually gets
> to the point, which is "The Economics of ‘Bundling’   Typical of
> someone who has a narrow pedagogic perspective of the field of music
> production, and absolutely no practical experience.
>
> Read on!  Will Page expounds, with pictures and arrows and a
> paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one is.  Will
> Page will someday become a great orator of Economics.  Perhaps a
> Presidential Advisor.  Perhaps my worst nightmare.  I wish him all
> the best.
>
> Meanwhile, music pioneer and visionary Trent Reznor, and others are
> bailing on the whole Major Label thing like rats leaving a sinking
> ship.  This is what is happening, as opposed to economic theory.  Get
> with it.
>
> Jim Chase
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