C. Castel's LNS #08  Radio-show  C February 2020

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In the club, I was able to create and perform anything I wanted. Where was copyright in that whole picture? Well... the club paid royalties with a blanket policy. But some of the songs I played in the club were white labels, some were small independent, many were UK imports! So how did copyright money pay them? I don't really know.

Every time a song is played on the radio, artists get paid. Every time a song is played on Pandora, artists get paid. Every time a song is played in a TV commercial, artists get paid. But,on Soundcloud, no money is collected and no artist gets paid. 

Why can't I put my mixes on Soundcloud? Well, it's illegal. Soundcloud doesn't collect any money from anyone for royalties for artists. But they have an elaborate system in place to process copyright infringement and shut down people posting copyrighted songs.

Record labels have been losing money since post 80's. They sue copyright infringers to make up for the money they think they are losing to free streaming or downloading or whatever new technology is playing their music. 

"It doesn't seem fair. It stifles creativity," is the rebuttal. The system in place keeps popular music under control of the major record labels. Big labels know the rules and use the rules to keep themselves in power. It doesn't matter to us, it's the law. You can't break the law. You will be sued or go to jail. It's the law. You have to play by the rules. You want to change the rules. But to change the rules takes time and money. Which we don't have enough of. So we must play by the rules. It's the law... until it isn't.

Choose your battles! I recommend we play by the rules until we have a chance to change them. Pursue the Creative Commons licencing option. Push artists to use different licencing options, like, 'limited not-for-commercial' and 'limited not-for-commercial derivative works' which would allow creative expression in today's: instant publish, instant hit, instant distribution model.

This is why you won't hear my DJ mixes online. But you can still hear them at my house!

I love house music.
Rod the Bod is  a Legendary nightclub DJ, from his early career spinning records at Seattle bar, Tugs Belmont, in the early 90's and various gigs including Lemon Twist for Tasty Shows.  It was once said that, "we can't have a successful Saturday night while you are spinning."  
An opportunity presented itself in 1996 for Rod to be entertainment director at a Portland mega-nightclub, Panorama/Boxes/Brig. He became a big fish in a small pool but maintained the #1 club until 2001.  
Moved to Denver in 2006.  :)

I can't go a day without listening to music!