Re: Why Mixed Tapes Promote

EGROOM@morgan.com
Wed 29 Jan 1997 12:01 EST


>Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 09:07:20 -0800
>From: dj SUN <djsun@insync.net>
>CC: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
>Subject: Re: Why Mixed Tapes Promote
<snip>
>industry think of mixed tapes. They (the mixed tapes) promote their
>artists. Just putting songs on a tape (w/o mixing) and selling those
>tapes,.. now that would be fraud!
<snip>

a label sending out mix tapes...great.
but my point has nothing to do with mixing the soungs fluidly
on a tape or not (ie. making it sound good - not different).
those individuals who mix existing songs onto a tape and sell
them - like at street fairs here in NYC - are stealing from the
artists...agreed ?
even if these individuals substancially change an existing song,
they should be paying some royalties to the original artist...
but then your getting back to the law - ie. what is a "substancial"
change in a recording.

-ecg.