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  cleo at 11:13 AM JST - 22nd September

  I agree with Taka.

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  gogogo at 12:29 PM JST - 22nd September

  What type of question is this? All radio stations have to pay the artists, music isn't free, radio stations make money on music it's only fair the artists get paid. Publishing on radio has been paid for 50+ years so this question seems weird. It's like saying gas stations shouldn't have to pay for gas but sell it to customers.

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  Nippon5 at 03:20 PM JST - 22nd September

  Musicians should pay for the free advertisment, most of the popular songs are not popular due to the great singing, its because the radio station plays it so much... So no musicians should charge radio stations to play the music, and they dont all do that...

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  jmarc at 07:10 PM JST - 22nd September

  that's allready the case in France.

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  Notginger at 09:18 PM JST - 22nd September

  What do you mean should? They DO have to pay royalties. If they don't they are in contravention of international copyright law.

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  cwhite at 09:48 PM JST - 22nd September

  agree with Taka, let there be a money transaction so the gov can tax them all for 50%, but the advertising and usage royalties should be the same.

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  mikekchar at 11:23 PM JST - 22nd September

  I think it would be great if they paid the artists, and not the distributors. Not a lot of artists get paid royalties for music played on the radio. Due to their contracts the money goes to the labels (otherwise known as a music distributor). After "expenses" if there is any money left, some (a small portion) goes to the artist. As others have said, sometimes those "expenses" include paying the radio station to play it in the first place. In the music industry, a lot of money changes hands, but surprisingly little of it ends up in the artist's hands.

  So, yes, by all means, let's start paying the artists.

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  MPNiea at 11:28 PM JST - 22nd September

  Of course, why should only the station profit by airing popular music?

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  LFRAgain at 03:44 AM JST - 23rd September

  Serendipity,

  You took the words right out of my brain. Maybe if "DJs" on Japanese radio stopped talking during the first and last 30 seconds of every 1 1/2-minute snippet of song they played, artists and radios might find a mutually beneficial arrangement that brought more listeners to stations and more first-time buyers to music stores. But as it stands now, music radio in Japan is simply uninspiring.

  Taka313,

  You nailed it.

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  VoXman at 07:54 AM JST - 23rd September

  For the record, US radio stations were faced with this problem by the record labels and the solution they came up with was exactly what TAKA stated above. Once the recording artists and labels realized how much it would cost to have their product advertised the equivalent number of times it would normally be played under the old system. They quickly backed off that argument and "gleefully" thanked the broadcasters for their free service they provide the billion dollar recording industry.

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  Farmboy at 09:27 AM JST - 23rd September

  Voxman,

  Not gleefully. They just don't have any power to fight it, but this seems to be changing. This is snipped from wired.com:

  A House subcommittee is expected to approve a royalty bill perhaps as early as Thursday. The measure, HR 4789, sponsored by Rep. Howard Berman, D-California, would move to the full House Judiciary Committee -- legislation that the National Association of Broadcasters said would cost the industry as much as $7 billion annually.

  An identical proposal, S 2500, is in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Rates under both proposals would be negotiated, although small and public stations would pay a flat $5,000 annually.

  Internet, cable and satellite broadcasters pay royalties to all participants involved. Singers, musicians and the labels get no royalties when AM-FM radio broadcasters air their songs.

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  Daniel_Basso at 11:56 AM JST - 23rd September

  Of course they should! They make money out of commercials in their radio waves using artists music. We don't tune their radio for the commercials nor their bla bla bla, we do it for the music.

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  gogogo at 12:39 AM JST - 24th September

  mikekchar: Music distributors are generally separate to the labels and have nothing to do with publishing, artists that sign away their publishing rights are stupid, no artist should sign away their publishing rights, it's not a common thing but some artists do sign it away not understanding what they are doing, always get a musical lawyer to look over a contract!

  Artists that have no creative talent and sing other peoples songs (written for them) and using a backing track not written by them have no publishing rights because they didn't make the song, they just sang it. Most of the poppy groups are in this category because they are a creation of the label.

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  umioso at 06:26 PM JST - 24th September

  If an artist has enough clout to get it, I say OK! If, on the other hand, artists depend more on the station's play for recognition, acceptance and sales, then I think the station is in the catbird seat and may not have to pay at all. Take it a case at a time. Why set an unnecessary firm policy?

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  lipscombe at 10:08 PM JST - 24th September

  labels shouldn't pay radio stations to play their music and vice-versa.

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