Re: Will they work for free!

[Franklin McMahon] "...just about any major site where you upload content, especially video, has the same setup..once you upload, the website has the rights to repurpose or do what it wants..even though you still retain the copyright."

I bumped into this thread just this morning and when I read this, I wanted to make clear that the Creative COW reels section -- for those bumping into this thread later -- does not demand rights to do whatever it wants with your video. All we want is to host it and you can turn it off anytime you wish.

Oh, and in response to this thread, most music publishers are money- and dream-stealing bastards who are the worst kind of parasite. I have friends whose records have been in continuous worldwide release for decades now and can be bought anywhere. (I am talking major label groups that still enjoy substantial worldwide followings.) When we talked about it, most tell me that they make next to nothing. One told me that even though he is a songwriter and has the obligatory songwriter's royalty coming to him, he gets a check once a year or so and it is enough to take him and his sons to McDonalds. What a joke. Talk about "cooking the books." The record companies recouped their monies invested long ago and yet their accountants still assess "development" and "marketing" costs to these bands all these years later. (Wow, "developing" bands that are long gone and that never get an ounce of marketing, eh?)

I am not a huge Prince fan but I love it when he says that the record companies are ten-times the pirates that kids are, any day.

The greatest thing that ever happened to young musicians was the internet. As time goes on and the market redefines itself, only Britney Spears and the endless parade of soundalike clones -- can anybody really tell the difference when they hear all of these 'soundalike chicks' they roll out one after another? -- will care one twit about the record company conglomerate/ClearChannel hegemony.

I can just see Britney, Christina, etc., on their own geezer/nostalgia tours in the future. It ain't gonna be pretty, not when the make-up meant much more then the music. Now these girls should have been the ones classified as "industrial rock." ;o)

Thanks for letting me get that off my chest. ;o)

A rather opinionated and still rockin',

Ron Lindeboom