The Mob, Music and the Law
Imagine earning a million bucks just for writing one song. A three minute song, which you slaved over for a day, and in return a million bucks. You can imagine the thump in a song writer’s heart in those years when the music industry was signing music artists left and right to find that one hit that would get the crowd going again. Take John Lennon’s Imagine. It is still earning money for Yoko, presumably, and the song probably didn’t take too much of John’s time, being the music genius that he was. But the song is still raking it in, more than thirty years after John Lennon’s death.
But that industry was a generation ago. Today, especially with music piracy, musicians prefer to do live gigs and performances instead of hoping for that hit in their repertoire to make it big. The copyright laws, the vehicle for the artist decades ago, are no longer relevant. Music is being shared by artists for the chance to be heard, for publicity, and not for money – the money comes in performances.
But outside of the Internet, the laws still hold. Download pirated music, and if you get caught, hire a London lawyer at affordable prices. A website lawyer might get you off with a slap on the wrist, but as soon as you get home, you know you are going to do it again. Copyright laws are a thing of the past, because no song is worth that much nowadays. The music artists themselves have already adjusted, but curiously enough, not the law.
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