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<blockquote data-quote="MoxieFu" data-source="post: 5370621" data-attributes="member: 41849">What I really hate are the record labels that would sign on artists and take huge advantage of their inexperience and ignorance, especially a lot of the blues artists in the early half of the 1900's up into the 50s and 60s. I have heard many artists tell stories of how they signed away rights to their music that the labels made a fortune on and they didn't. Musicians are artists and almost never lawyers. Who can blame them when they sign contracts like that so they can make their music?From the Wikipedia entry on RIAA:The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trust that represents the recording industry distributors in the United States. Its members consist of record labels and distributors, which the RIAA say &quot;create, manufacture and/or distribute approximately 85% of all legitimate sound recordings produced and sold in the United States&quot;.So they really support the record labels and distributors and not the artists directly.Can you honestly support the draconian methods the RIAA used against Sarah Seabury Ward, James Walls, and Brittany Chan?To me music is about artists and performance, not lawyers and corporations.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MoxieFu, post: 5370621, member: 41849"] What I really hate are the record labels that would sign on artists and take huge advantage of their inexperience and ignorance, especially a lot of the blues artists in the early half of the 1900's up into the 50s and 60s. I have heard many artists tell stories of how they signed away rights to their music that the labels made a fortune on and they didn't. Musicians are artists and almost never lawyers. Who can blame them when they sign contracts like that so they can make their music? From the Wikipedia entry on RIAA: The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trust that represents the recording industry distributors in the United States. Its members consist of record labels and distributors, which the RIAA say "create, manufacture and/or distribute approximately 85% of all legitimate sound recordings produced and sold in the United States". So they really support the record labels and distributors and not the artists directly. Can you honestly support the draconian methods the RIAA used against Sarah Seabury Ward, James Walls, and Brittany Chan? To me music is about artists and performance, not lawyers and corporations. [/QUOTE]

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