Copyright law, statutory licenses, compulsory arbitration, voluntary negotiations, etc. Always looking for another excuse to shrink the cut. The same planet where payments are received 9 to 10 months after a transaction has taken place and the societies have had plenty of time to invest your money and fluff their nest without sharing any of the interest with you. Your FezGuys don't think our landlord would go for that kind of financial dawdling. For all things government-related to the subject.
Online distribution presents an intensely diverse array of possible methodologies.
Everyone involved is making it up as they go along. The FezGuys, prodigal as we may be, don't have all the answers, or even some of them. Well ok, a couple, which we'll get into next month as we continue our uncompromising observations of the current state of online music distribution rights. Special Thanks to Bill Colitre for his valuable assitance in assembling this column. The FezGuys welcome your suggestions on how to improve anything.