Miserly Warner Music Group CEO Edgar Bronfman believes he and his cronies should see a fatter royalty check for every copy of Rock Band and Guitar Hero that happens to list one of their bands as participants.
Straight from the fat cat’s mouth:
The amount being paid to the music industry, even though their games are entirely dependent on the content we own and control, is far too small.
Bronfman’s words come courtesy of Reuters, though even the phonetically confusing publication couldn’t urge Bronfman to elaborate on what sort of compensation he sees as fair.
Normally I’d flip my shit at Bronfman’s bitching — anti-capitalist rhetoric is nearly a requirement of writing words on this here internet — but I fell in love with this amazingly beautiful, awesome woman recently and just can’t focus enough to compose the de rigueur photoshop combination of Mr. Bronfman’s face and a cartoonishly huge wang.
Instead, I’m calling for some Dickensian irony: I’m picturing Eddie Vedder dressed as the Ghost of Christmas Past showing Bronfman just how lame Guitar Hero would be if it was entirely tracks from Katy Perry.
nex, dude. what?
One more example of RIAA and the major labels still clinging to an obsolete business model.
I’m sure that the legal departments of all the major recording companies and publishers already made an agreement with Activision/Red Octane for royalties – just because the execs aren’t getting enough money for more ivory backscratchers and cocaine doesn’t mean they deserve more.
They’ve made an agreement; now they’re trying to renege because they don’t think they’re making enough money.
“nex, dude. what?”
Exactly.
i’d say MUSICIANS should get more money from rock band and guitar hero, yes. maybe not record execs… come on, the games do rely on their work. do people have to freak out and call music industry people evil whenever they do something? it does seem weird that the video game companies are making a ton of money off this compared to artists…
yeah, there is consistently this idea that it is okay to make business models based on needing musical content but that artists and labels are lame and greedy for wanting to be compensated. that said, rock band does pay a lot actually. more then most other licensing outlets.