[acg]

An illustration of why some of the software industry wants to be more like the music industry and why the music industry doesn't want to be like the software industry.

Imagine if you were still making money off a program you wrote in 1960. Almost inconceivable in any mass market.

[buster]

Let alone that most people that made popular music 50 years ago are dead nowadays. It's not the original artist who gets the money but some persons that didn't even work for it!!

[lhnz]

They bought the license. Are business deals not work? Do you need proximity to the creation to profit from it?