[futureduck]

The entire copyright thing needs to stop. It is preventing great music from being made or at least released publicly.

I understand that some musicians get nice royalties and this is their full-time thing, but most of us get close to nothing from streaming and barely break even from record sales.

I'd rather get nothing and be allowed to sample and remix everything.

[9dev]

Im pretty sure Beyoncé and Taylor Swift disagree with you, and that will always settle the debate.

[lukan]

Because pop stars are secretly in charge?

I don't think their opinion matters much, but rather of those people who hold their rights.

[jazzyjackson]

Beyonce and Swift are outliers who do own most of their own catalog, probably why they are billionaires, labels are merely given publishing rights

[9dev]

That's besides the point. The handful of big pop stars tilt the scale so massively that the interests of whomever is financially representing them will always guide the direction of the music industry as a whole.

And that ensures copyright is going to stay.

[hsbauauvhabzb]

So make copywrite a 10 year prevention on duplication, with exemptions if the original artist abandons widespread sales/profits/access

[Cthulhu_]

That's entirely up to the artists though, and plenty choose to publish their work rights-free. However, they can't earn a living off of free or charity-paid-for music. While I'm sure there's a way to make money off of rights-free music (I mean you can still publish your albums, get on Spotify, do concerts etc), it's going to be similar to open source software - you can't compete with free.

[eikenberry]

Most musicians, even really big ones, make the vast majority of their money from performing. So this wouldn't impact them much at all.