[Info-vax] OT: About Digital and divisions

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 11/20/2011 11:41 AM, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> In article
> <2a46af63-1e22-4c62-931b-43d562b253b6 at h5g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>, Neil
> Rieck<n.rieck at sympatico.ca>  writes:
>
>> To your point, I read recently that Amy Winehouse was not as rich as
>> many people thought. For every $1M in sales, she only received $70k.
>> Someone, either traditional music publishers, or e-publishers like
>> Apple, were taking $930,000.
>
> This is a margin of 7%.  The margins in many other businesses are much
> smaller.  Also, the $930,000 is not profit, since it includes costs; ALL
> costs---"real" costs and profits---are covered by the $1M revenue from
> sales.
>
>> Why is it that creative people keep
>> getting the short end of the stick? Imagine a world where all creative
>> people are driven back into traditional jobs: No music, no TV, no
>> movies, no books, no games, no art. What a crappy world that would be.
>
> Indeed.  And illegal downloading is bringing us closer and closer to it.
>
> I find it strange that people who complain that artists get a too small
> fraction of the income generated from sales offer as a "solution" that
> the artists get nothing at all.
>

Then let them compose and perform their own compositions!  Perhaps one 
in three-thousand may be worth listening to.