AllofMP3 Legal Clarification

Repo

Dead_Eye_Jones wrote:

my bro, a pro musician is being cheated out of money that he has worked very hard for - he has trained since he was 7 to be at the standard he is and people just dont give a f*** that they are cheating him and his family (inc 2 toddlers) out of money.

The people most responsbile for ripping off your brother are the people running the music industry. As allofmp3 shopw - people are quite willing to pay for music; just not at the rip off price that the labels charge. What percentage of a sale of a £7.99 CD does the artist get? Not much...

tomthebomb

Well said Repo.

zag2me

Repo wrote:

The people most responsbile for ripping off your brother are the people running the music industry. As allofmp3 shopw - people are quite willing to pay for music; just not at the rip off price that the labels charge. What percentage of a sale of a £7.99 CD does the artist get? Not much...

Totally Agree.

redux

Repo wrote:

What percentage of a sale of a £7.99 CD does the artist get? Not much...

I asked one of them the question. His CD was pretty much home produced, rather than on a record label, and he reckoned if lucky he might make about a quid on each one. So I refused to let him buy me a drink out of the £10 I gave him.

But people excusing themselves by quoting companies' greed are wishing to pay nothing at all to artists that may get £3 to £5 on a £10 CD

Your multi-million artists might not notice a few missing sales, but what about the person who sells 5,000 to 20,000 CDs a year?

redux

alikat wrote:

... legal, in the UK, to buy music from AllofMp3 & American sites too, for that matter. This presumes that anything you purchase is for private use, and you no not distribute these copyrighted works without permission.

This is a double standard.

Rather than presume, why don't people ask the artist or copyright holder for permission?

yeslek

firespire wrote:

I've never understood why music is so expensive both CD Albums and DVDs cost around £10-£15 but surely the cost of producing a film is at least 100 times more with every one working on it - actors, extras, directors, post production. Surely the CD album should cost a fraction of a film, why does sometimes the film soundtrack cost the same as the film.

if you think of how much time and cost can go into making a cd the you'd think an tenner am album was fairly cheap.

you have recording costs (anything from £200 a day) then you have to pay a producer, engineer, any other lackies or techies needed to record - bascially your renting equipment and labourers to record songs you'v already spent months on writing (sometimes the artist and producer will write together meaning more money needs paying to them)
then there's all the marketing and record company cost's
finacal, distribution, manufacturering, legal, promo departments all want paying too.

on the scale of things you could put an album together for £1000 or so (usually small local bands - meaning you'd need to sell at least a hundred copies of £10 album just to break even) or anything up to a million or more for the bigger bands meaning more copies of a £10 album would need to be sold to just break even.

Repo wrote:

The people most responsbile for ripping off your brother are the people running the music industry. As allofmp3 shopw - people are quite willing to pay for music; just not at the rip off price that the labels charge. What percentage of a sale of a £7.99 CD does the artist get? Not much...

roughly an artist gets about 10-15% of an albums retail price - generally about a £1

BUT - that same pound has to pay back any advances, cost incurred, or loans they have had from the record company so it takes a while for an artist to actually earn any money

thing is a record company is just as guilty for robbing an artist of money owed to them as the public is for illegally downloading music.
thats not to justifiy either more than the other though.