Thing is, even if you buy a CD, or an MP3, you don't own the music. You own the physical object (the CD), but not the music. The artist does. You have the right to private use. That's it. You have to either pay the label a fee to redistribute the music, probably another fee to make money off of it... or get them to just let you use it, which a lot of smaller musicians will do. They want their royalties.
Michael Buffer (the Lets get ready to rumble guy) has a copyright on that phrase. If you use it publicly (and I know this for a fact, I work in radio and almost made the mistake of using it), you stand the chance of getting slammed. He has people everywhere. They hear it, call it in, and bam, a fine. lol More than likely won't happen... but it's a chance you're taking, and a heavy fine if caught. Seriously. It's "his" and he wants money for use. I think that's dumb as hell, but hey. He holds the key.
It's all about the money. The artists feel jipped... and they are getting jipped when people use their stuff to make money off it. That's redirected traffic. Away from their product.
. And if they put copyright on Autotune I think alot of artists have a very big problem.
