via TuneCore Blog
By Jeff Price
An artist’s copyrights should be respected. The choice to charge or
give away his or her creations should be up to the artist, and the
artist alone.
When you cut through all the press releases and rhetoric of the RIAA,
it boils down to getting the legally required licenses and paying the
people (or entities) that control the copyrights to the songs and
recordings. I could not agree more.
One of the many problems I have with the RIAA is not their supporting
this fundamental principle, but their tactics and blatant disregard for
anyone who is not one of their members. Suing grandma and college
students is probably not the best idea. Pretending the world has not
changed and everything should stay the same makes no sense. In
addition, in many cases their positions and actions stifle revenue while
slowing the growth and consumption of music. But what gets me most
upset is this:
