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Is that really true? That seems pretty insane.

• jws 9y ago
  This carried over from radio. It was decided that recording artists benefited sufficiently from the publicity of being played on the radio leading to record purchases and concert ticket sales. Song writers managed to get a compulsory royalty instead. Their compensation is written in law, they can not negotiate for more, but at least they get paid.
• paulcole 9y ago
  I thought royalties were split between writer, composer and performer. This leads to the saying, “change a word, get a third” for performers who try to get co-writing credits on the songs originally written by others.