Posted by Bill Van Dyk on 11/14/05 15:45

Well, maybe things have changed a lot in the last couple of years, but
in the old days, record companies used to be accused-- accurately-- of
paying off the radio station to play the music.

But I believe that they do pay, nowadays, but I think they are being
stupid and don't realize that if they refused, and only played music by
independent artists who were willing to allow them to play their music
for free--- within a few years, we would have different "stars".

kashe@sonic.net wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 19:34:52 GMT, "AnthonyR" <nomail@nospam.com>
>
> In general, whatever the radio station did was likely with the
> permission of the copyright holder. They'd be in deep shit if they
> just went out, bought an album and started airplay without doing so.
> Even if it ended up that the copyright holder in fact paid the station
> for airplay, rather than the reverse.
>
>

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