Four Songs to the Penny for Artists

Feb 18, 2002 17:10 · 52 words · 1 minute read

The NY Times is reporting on the miniscule size of artist payments on PressPlay and MusicNet. All along, the labels have been saying that Napster was bad because the artists don’t get compensated. This article quotes that an artist would get $0.0023 per song downloaded. That doesn’t sound like compensation to me.