Again, its so ridiculous that this even has to be debated. Due to a quirk in the law, music streaming services such as SiriusXM and Pandora do not pay artists performance royalty fees on songs recorded prior to Feb. 15, 1972...Somebody picked that arbitrary date when they redid the copyright law back in the ‘90s. It seems pretty clever because of the demographic: 77 million people, the baby boomers who listen to classic rock. That’s all stuff recorded before ’72: The Beatles, the Stones… the Byrds...Roger McGuinn adds, “In my case, I recorded ‘So You Want to Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star’ with Chris Hillman and the Byrds. Chris and I wrote it in ’67 and it was on our ‘Younger Than Yesterday’ album that came out that year. Then Patti Smith covered it in the ‘70s and Tom Petty covered it in the mid-‘80s and they both get paid royalties for performance but the Byrds don’t. It doesn’t seem fair. I say, Not fair is the understatement of understatements. This is criminal behavior thats been legalized.
Posted on: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 15:33:09 +0000
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