04-04-2002, 11:47 PM
Quote:It pisses me off that people are calling artists like Sheryl Crow and Don Henley spoiled brats for starting that artists' rights group (with their own pocket money) They're trying to protect the rights to stuff that they wrote/performed themselves, that the record companies can just take away when the contract is over. That is fucked up! Rights to intellectual property is a major issue right now...I (think) I agree with you Spit... I think it's fucked that so many artists have no control over music that they wrote...
Willie Nelson has written hundreds, probably thousands of songs throughout his career... and now he has to get permission to re-record (or even play live) many of those songs that he wrote, let alone the fact that whenever someone records a song that Willie wrote, he makes a small percent (of a percentage) if anything, while the people who basically robbed him of his music make money hand over fist...