Originally Posted by GatorB

Considering how hard it is even today for someone to get big without the money and expertise a label can give an artist, I'm not so sure that is a good thing for the artists. Not 99.99% of them. Having your copyrights as an artist doesn't mean squat if your songs are never heard.

By the way the smart artists get a writing credit so they do get copyright and larger royalties.

I'm all for companies and artist having copyright protection, BUT copyright was never rmeant to last for 95 years or 70 years after someon dies. The old way of 56 years max was more than enough time to make money from something. Eventually there will be no such thing call "public domain" except for stuff made before 1923. If someone or some company made a song/movie/tv show in 1952 and still hasn't made any money, too bad. It should be public domain. Some has yet to epxlain to me why someon's great grandkids should be getting paid for what their ancestor did. They need to have REAL jobs.