-=> Richard Webb wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 BA> I have no problem with it.  I think a similar proposal was made for
 BA> blank audio tape and cassettes, and blank videotapes.  Dunno if it was
 BA> ever implemented, if it was I never noticed it.

 DD> Yeah, it got rammed through. My problem with it is that the revenues
 DD> went to the record companies, studios, etc. Not one red cent ever
 DD> reached the actual artists ... but, then the companies have been
 DD> using creative bookkeeping since they have been in business.

 RW> Make that the record companies.  A lot of the "studios"
 RW> never really reaped anything from that, but the folks at the major
 RW> labels sure did.

By studios I meant MGM, Fox, Warner, etc. since you included videotapes in your
statement. I certainly didn't mean Muscle Shoals or Bill's Basement Tapes, etc.

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