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While jazz will be my primary interest to the day I die, I have found myself revisiting music in the rock world that I missed out growing up. Got into Deep Purple and Rainbow in the past year or so and with the passing of Ozzy I have so far picked up four of Sabbath's releases. The debut album Black Sabbath, Paranoid, Volume 4 and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. In the coming weeks I'll most likely get Masters of Reality and Sabotage. Even the reunion album 13 sounds pretty damn good to me even though Bill Ward isn't on the session. I guess at the time metal just didn't hold much interest or I just thought it wasn't for me. I have to say it's been great fun to go back in time to visit these classic recordings.

So does this mean that Frank Lloyd Wright's family can get royalties whenever one of his buildings is re-sold? That seems to be what's implied here.

A superb compilation.

Never seen before ...

R.I.P.

Yes, royalties, thought that was clear from context.

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It sounds like a form of royalty payment. But is this ever a precondition of sale?

This is a really nice session. I like Ms Cole and One for All. Unfortunately this is on Venus cd. I just really don’t enjoy the Venus house mastering style. It’s not the worst of the lot but I wish it had been on a label with different mastering. I can futz around with gain in my system and it is nice, but I’d rather not futz. 299×300 8.3 KB

I first heard of her when I bought biographical novel called "Waiting For Robert Capa". I'd bought it because I liked he title and the cover photo. It's pretty good. (I've also read a pretty bad "Young Adult" book called "One Last Shot" which is sort of a poem. ) Gerda died in the arms of Ted Allen a man I've met but before I'd ever heard of Gerda so I never asked him about her. A friend of mine who'd made a film about Ted told me she was the love of his life.

Adore that comp!!

I still don't understand how the courts are granting ownership to someone who doesn't own the item. If they can do this for valuable artwork, what's to stop them from doing it with something like real estate? People make millions & millions of dollars on real estate. Are builders going to start getting a cut?

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yes, it's called "droit de suite," usually when sales are above previous market value. we're also talking about, say, a modern artwork selling for millions of dollars, not an LP.

Is that really a thing? How could anyone claim rights to something they don't own? Once I buy something, it's mine, not the previous owner's. If this is a thing, what's to stop record labels from getting money on used sales?

yeah, it's not like artworks in which -- and this is a fairly recent development -- estates or artists can make claims on a percentage of sales via auction houses. Doubt Blue Note recouped costs on a poorly selling album like True Blue in the first place. It's staggering to think of paying $7500 for an LP (or even $2000. Or even $1000).

I don’t see how they would. Putting aside the fact that artists were poorly paid by labels, this is the sale by one collector to another. The estate would not have any claim on such sales.

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The great Gerda Taro.

These Apple Music compilations are head-scratchers to me. I guess I don't see why they think a compilation will get more plays than the actual LPs that they pulled the music from (in this case, "Grant's First Stand" & "Stop & Listen")... unless it's a way to avoid paying mechanical royalties to the artists?

Fascinating time machine.