From: ronmoses@gmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, December 31, 2019 at 6:44:42 AM UTC-5, The old geezer wrote:   
   > The question remains, Why would anyone sell the rights to their music?   
      
   In decades past, artists just didn't know better, and labels had no incentive   
   to educate them. You're 22 and starving, a record label offers you A RECORD   
   CONTRACT and says sign here. You have no attorney, you have no idea what   
   you're signing, but you're    
   gonna be a star. Next thing you know you're pushing 50, you don't even own   
   your life's work, and most of the money your music generates is going to   
   someone else because of a single decision you made thirty years ago when you   
   were young and stupid.   
      
   Nowadays that kind of thing still happens, but far less frequently because a)   
   everyone's heard the horror stories so artists are less naive, b) the label   
   model is widely being replaced by self-distribution, and c) there's no money   
   to be made in recorded    
   music anymore.   
      
   A longer answer than you wanted, I'm sure.   
      
   ron   
      
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