Sebastien Blondeel wrote:
[*] Most singers members of the SACEM (a French company managing royalties for music) get nothing but peanuts. Interestingly, if you sign up with SACEM any time in your life, all your subsequent songs MUST be managed by them, you can no longer produce Creative Commons, public domain stuff, editor your records yourself or go and work with other guys.
The Dutch BUMA/STEMRA has simular all or nothing clauses in their contracts, but at least you can break with them (but then have to withdraw all your works from them; and since they are an effective monopoly, you have nowhere else to say. I am thinking about filing complaints about this with anti-monopoly authorities, but need musicians or others directly affected by this who are willing to join in, and find people in such an organization that it is NOT the copyright monopoly itself that I am complaining about. Jeroen.