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Has nothing to do with democrat or republican - bottom line is the Benjamins & how much they can collect!

Our tracks are available on Customburn... Whether you are able to get access to it depends on your location or ingenuity due to the fact that it blocks IP addresses outside the territory just like Selectatrack now does.



I am not in disagreement with you mate. But the fact is, that the same territorial rules apply to any number of other mediums as well. I can't watch many videos or clips that are on the web as it says "Sorry, the content is not available in your country" or something to that effect.

The system is arcane and designed to make money for the publishers - end of story. In the UK, I send my tracks over to the web site, they put them up for sale, sell them, send a report to the PRS with title and artist names and pay the flat fee per track and it's job done.

If I want to sell my tracks in the US, I have to research each song first and identify every writer and sometimes that can be 5 or more!, determine their % of ownership, then ask for an approval from the publisher(s) to do the track. Oh yes, I forgot to mention that before I can go through all of that -I have to pay a $20,000-30,000 advance to EACH publisher annually.

So believe me when I say that I am in agreement with you regarding the system.. But it is what it is and thus my earlier post that after starting this time consuming and expensive process, I am not willing to jeopardise what I have invested in. In the meantime, all I can do is keep producing and selling where I can and continue the process Stateside...

Well Smooth if it was YOUR music being sold and you weren't getting paid I think you would be a bit peeved...

Well Smooth if it was YOUR music being sold and you weren't getting paid I think you would be a bit peeved or if someone using it commercially for something you don't like without YOUR permission. Even political parties have gotten slapped for using music without permission.

yes, but every time ZM, SF, SBI made a track....they DID get paid.

Gee Smooth... Call me an uninformed Canadian if you wish, but the last time I looked, your President Obama-the-Socialist-Liberal-Democrat held the reins of power in your country... NOT a Republican. Mind you, I haven't checked the news this morning. Things may have changed.

Gee Smooth... Call me an uninformed Canadian if you wish, but the last time I looked, your President Obama-the-Socialist-Liberal-Democrat held the reins of power in your country... NOT a Republican. Mind you, I haven't checked the news this morning. Things may have changed.

It has EVERYTHING to do with Politics. Republicans will not change any laws that take anything away from multi-million dollar companies. They will not change copyright laws in any way that favors anyone but the publishers and record companies. WHY?? They will lose votes. So, while, for the companies, it's about money, for the politicians, it's about votes and contributions!!

Actually Earl the way things are setup in this country, there are three branches of government, that are supposed to act as a check and balance system. This is to insure not one branch of the government is able to dominant the others. The President is not a dictator, nor a monarch, and doesn't have absolute power. Obama is not a socialist in the classic European mode or even in the Canadian example. Most of the time this system has worked, and unofficially there is a fourth check most people don't know about. In other countries the leader of the government is the leader because his party is in power, they are the majority. Not in this country, it is possible to be President even if your party is the minority party. Sometimes I think the voters do this on purpose, that way nothing too radical is passed. Like it or not this is still a conservative country by and large. The founding fathers had a distrust for large out of control central government, that is why states rights have always been an issue since the beginning of this nation. This idea of divided government has come back to bite us in a way. This recent Congress has done the least in recent history. The gridlock has brought the very functions of government to a halt. Funny though seems we are still able to wage war, even if we can't get together on anything else. I wonder what that says about how our noble experiment is working?

Politics doesn't have a place in this conversation other than absolutely none of them are worth a rats bottom and all of them are part of the major issues with this topic and almost anything you wish to talk about.