In the last century, the music industry has gone through years of maltreated in music sales, due to the fact of Internet downloading and files sharing of music. The artists’ royalties and compensation took a nose dive for the worse even though there is copyright law and the Fair Play Fair Pay Act. In addition, Music United for Strong Internet Copyright (MUSIC) states “More than 2.6 billion files are illegally downloaded per month (2005).” Also, the USF resource states that “because of the nature of the theft, the damage is difficult to calculate;” but many do not think about this. MUSIC (2005) states that “stealing music compromises the livelihood of the musicians, songwriters, record store …”, ultimately swindling and destroying a generation of valuable hard workers of their resources. Based on this research on File Sharing and Artists Royalties and compensation for Online …show more content…
The music industry should also protect all their music’s from free downloading or file sharing. Personally, I think the artist is the one that makes the music. They should have a higher royalty and compensation. For example in 1965, Otis Redding wrote a song” Respect” then Aretha Franklin cover version this song and it propelled it to its remarkable status today. In 1967, this song went to No.1 on Billboard’s Top 40 chart, receive many award and Grammy. But each time the music is broadcast, all of the funds go to the original songwriter and none to the Artist that launched the music. With my proposal every one of the music parties receives a fair deal. Each times thing song is played on radio, TV, downloading , streaming and file sharing all of the music parties receive a stipend y for their creativity and contributor to the music