[pavel_lishin]

It sounds incredibly strange that you can license samples of your music to be used in other artists' works - but only in specific media.

"Yeah, it's fine, you can use 5 seconds of my song, but only if you sell your song on vinyl, CD or audiotape."

[JustSomeNobody]

Is it that or are they saying that because the original license was written before this new form of distribution existed, you don't have a license for it?

Either way, the music industry needs to die and then be reborn in several years when the existing players are all out of business.

[jandrese]

It's not like the copyright provisions would be any better if they were written today. The only reason we have a public domain, time limited copyright, or even public library system today is because they're grandfathered in from a time before our current copyright maximalism.

You would kill off the current players only to find yourself trapped by an even worse set of overlords.