Adam Marx of KnowTechie isn't really sure what’s going on at Sony right now, but the legal end of the music industry is blowing up. When Techdirt’s piece came down last week noting how Sony argued in court that it could “act on its own interests in a way that may incidentally lessen the other party’s [(that is, the artists represented by the other party)] anticipated fruits from the contract,” there were a whole lot of people wondering just what that meant in reality.
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Sorry to break the news, but this is what publishers do. That's why people hate them. They run off greed, all of them. Notice when you use a smaller bands music on say Youtube, the smaller publisher will allow you to license it? Meanwhile these big publishers want it taken down until you pay big bucks?
On the flip side, the artists hate it because they make no money.
The only time artists get any say is when they outgrow the publisher. Publishers would hate to lose big artists and can't really threaten them.
The only issue here is that Sony sucks at keeping business matters within the business....