Tara ,'Storyteller'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I'm the sort who will hear a song onscreen and have bought it before the commercial break. Can't do that much without the lyrics sites, and can't do it at all if it's scrubbed from the DVD (lack of commercial breaks notwithstanding).
So, in the world that's all about me, leave the sites alone and make the rights affordable.
There are a lot of songwriters out there just eking a living off of rights. It's not all Styx (which is in my head now THANKS A LOT) and if those lyrics sites started paying for content, or Universal paid what releasing Miami Vice is worth to them, it would make a big difference to them.
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Someone tell me that it would be perfectly fine to leave 20 minutes early.
I was never thinking about lyrics sites paying, since I see them a source of free advertisment. Sure, they're making money off ad revenue (and this is probably the whole point), but it's free to me to go look, so I do it very often. Also, the lyrics are a poor substitute for the song itself-so going to a lyric site isn't even song methadone.
I would, sarameg, but I'm still working, so you have to suffer along with me.
Damn you, Theo.
I was disagreeing that he's the most dour, unfunny person imaginable.
Not as long as Ann Coulter remains undead.
F&G is another show that had to fight hard to get all the music on the DVDs, and that delayed the set for a long time.
They weren't completely successful, either. Just mostly.
They weren't completely successful, either. Just mostly.
What's missing?
I was never thinking about lyrics sites paying, since I see them a source of free advertisment. Sure, they're making money off ad revenue (and this is probably the whole point), but it's free to me to go look, so I do it very often. Also, the lyrics are a poor substitute for the song itself-so going to a lyric site isn't even song methadone.
They're making money off of content they don't own, though. It's basically reprinting copyrighted material. I don't think a songwriter is thinking about the advertising, so much, but that they're using someone else's property for their own profit. I don't know if RIAA is involved or not, but I imagine ASCAP and BMI should be.