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> He was quick to point out to the interviewer that whilst he would be
> able to scrape by without royalties from Move it, Living Doll etc the
> campaigners were more concerned with those who perhaps had 5 or 6 hits
> in their youth and then little after that. If the writers and
> publishers are still able to make money from these recordings, then
> surely the performers ought to get their due also.
Or maybe kids should just be able to sing happy birthday without having to
pay a fee to any publisher or performer.
Artists don't owe their great grand-children a free lunch, maybe they will
be given the incentive to produce some new work of their own rather than
living off the public domain.
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