#ANOTHER WORD FOR PAPER MONEY LICENSE#
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Rather, the answer was to index the rates to inflation at a minimum.

As you read this post, remember that both the current story on inflation and the need to index the statutory mechanical rate started in 2008 with the Great Recession and has been coming for at least fourteen yearsвЂ“plenty of time to recognize that the answer to inflationary destruction of a rate songwriters are forced to accept was not to freeze the rate to make the inflationary destruction even worse. Why do I say that the current inflation was entirely predictable? IвЂ™ve promised a few times to discuss quantitative easing so here it is. This is particularly galling when rampant inflation was all entirely predictable and the smart people and the economists they supposedly consult with just missed the boat.

#ANOTHER WORD FOR PAPER MONEY LICENSE#

When you force songwriters to license and also force them into accepting a government rate for mechanical licensing set by a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capitol, the last thing thatвЂ™s fair or reasonable is to unilaterally freeze those rates when songwriters are staring down the worst inflation in 40 years. These posts are in the context of the compelling need for a cost of living adjustment for songwritersвЂ™ statutory rates and the absurdity of a frozen mechanical for the booming vinyl and CD configurations which thankfully has now been rejected by the Copyright Royalty Board once and for all.

Digital Services: Crunch Digital SandboxДЄs readers will recall, IвЂ™ve been beating the drum about inflation and stagflation coming home to roost for many months, nearly a year now.

SpotifyвЂ™s enviвЂ¦ on SpotifyвЂ™s ESG Problem: EвЂ¦ MUSICIANS: This NFTвЂ¦ on 20 Questions: An artistвЂ™вЂ¦

Goldilocks, вЂњNeutral Interest RatesвЂќ, Inflation and the Unfrozen MechanicalВ RoyaltyД¬harles D'Atri on The Vinyl Resurgence isВ UвЂ¦.

ChiefвЂ™s Proposal to Settle the Frozen Mechanicals Crisis by Expanding the Songwriters at theВ Table.

The Central Bank Dilemma and Songwriter Cost of LivingВ Increases.

Spoxit: Has Streaming Jumped theВ Shark?.

Is There Something Rotten in Sweden? Spoxit continues as Obamas AnkleВ Spotify.

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Another word for paper money