All I can say is "You go girl!" Apple, which is debuting it's music streaming service was planning a three month introductory run where artist and publishing royalties would have been ignored. A total rip-off to the contributors of whatever passes as the music business these days. She pulled her product from the fledgling website and they, apparently relented and will now pay royalty monies to the proper people. She is to be roundly applauded for going to bat for artists and writers that, otherwise, wouldn't have made a cent.
My question is: Where was BMI and ASCAP, besides the individual publishing companies, in all of this? Why did it take this singular female artist to shake things up to right a wrong? Where were the lawyers that should have been all over Apple for even thinking of attempting such a thing in the first place? In the "old" days, the music business wasn't perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but something like this would NEVER have been attempted. Major kudos to this young, talented and gutsy female artist for staring down the big boys.
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