Copyright's Excess: Money and Music in the US Recording Industry

When Madonna told Warner Music that she did not want a contract anymore, Warner tried everything they could do to get her back, because this record company made "trillions" of dollars worldwide with her.

The point is, discussing the industry or record labels today, saying that there is still a music industry in the hands of a few people, is an old argument that is so aged, today the musicians produce at home with simple PCs.
I don't know anyone who buys cds, nor me, and Blu-ray was the biggest tragedy for these companies, because Latin America and African countries was the biggest source of wealth of these companies, these countries do not buy anything anymore, they download through the web, youtube etc. The world focus has changed.

Industry is when there is a mass production and series, but that industry never showed the serial numbering, in the decade of the 80 the American artists protested and demanded that all the discs of vinyl and cds were numbered, but, they lost ugly for this corrupt mafia industry who hid money in the Cayman Islands, Switzerland, Monaco and other tax havens.

Since the real music industry is really done by the artists in every end of the world, the intellectual industry of music, is a guy with few chords and a good idea sells millions.

The big point is that these old mafias of the music migrated to show producers, the same demons that thought of the following form:
"if the artists always enriched with shows, but not with sales of discs, then, they will have to pass throughout us the same way , otherwise they have not stepped on any stage in the USA, England, etc.
At last, artists continue in the corrupt hands of those who produce nothing.
Today they try to win on all sides even with licenses of streaming, web radios etc.

Piracy was the best slap in the face of this lying and corrupt industry, which was based on the teachings and writings of the Germans 'Theodor Adorno' and 'Max Horkheimere' who wrote their famous book 'cultural industry' in the twentieth century, the book aimed at replacing 'mass culture', whose hook was picked up by the music industry.

The awful thing is that these record companies have created their own laws, the worst of which is that all the content recorded in their studies belong to the record company, the drummer's solo, the bass as well as the sound effects created by synthesizers, backing vocals and expensive keyboards are the intellectual property of that record company.

They deceive artists saying that there is a standard contract, but caution, that never existed.

The artist could even sing it's songs elsewhere, but without the copyright production of the record company, maestros, producers and other artists were contracted to helped those artists to leave their music in an incredible outfit, but otherwise would not be successful.

Today, since record companies that have never produced anything, but only pressed vinyls and CDs, they do mega shows around the world, and those who don't have a contract don't step on the stage.