On Tue, 16 May 2000, Steve Greenland wrote: ) So I can loan out my CDs up to about 1283 times each, making the worst ) case assumption that each loanee makes a copy. (Based on a list price ) of $12.99, and an assumption (aka wild-assed guess) that the copyright ) holder makes %30 of that.) ) Actually, the part that gets considered for payment to the copyright holder is generally only around 20% and from that, there's the performance payment, the copyright royalty, yet another cut for the record company. Subtract another 10-20% from that for the publishing company, and you can probably understand why people like Metallica are getting so annoyed over that sort of thing. ) Cool. ) ) Steve ) ) )
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