Canada Music Biz Bites Dentists
Katie Dean,
Wired News,
Aug 02, 2004
Another example of the stupidity of the music industry, as a Canadian dentist is dinged for playing music from his iPod in his office. What gets me is that there is no way the performers - mostly traditional celtic artists - are getting compensated. After all, it's not like the dentist's iPod is being monitored, which means that if SOCAN divies up the profits at all, it is among the big-label bands pumped out continuously from big-label radio stations. Meanwhile, the owners of Woody Guthrie's classic folk song, This Land is Your Land, have contacted lawyers in an effort to remove a brilliant parody based on the song from internet circulation. My attitude is Guthrie's: "anybody caught singin' it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do."
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