A Blanket license to keep warm or spread disease?

There has been talk about a blanket license to cover all music everywhere. So instead of 99 cents a song it would be added to your taxes or possible your internet charges as a way to pay the labels, managers, ISP, and maybe the artists. Now I don’t know anybody like this, but maybe you do. Somebody who just does not like music, they prefer silence over something like soothing jazz like Coltrane, classical music like yo yo ma, conscious hip hop like Talib Kweli, Indie rock like White Light Riot or even nature sounds like the forest and you. I believe other countries are trying out an optional blanket license from what I read here at ars technica.

Now if they are successful we may not know for awhile, but I believe that if we payed a music tax, or something called a Creativity tax we could allow artists to be payed by the government and allow more time to the art of creating music rather than contracts and lawyers. Figure out an algorithm to add the radio plays, restaurant plays, cd sales, internet sales/ plays and pay them to the indie or major labels where they would have a new department where they figure out their percentage of the figures the government gives. Billboards top artists in plays across the board would finally mean something, rather then this artist got 1.6 million downloads with 5 thousand legit downloads. All downloads would be legit, and would all be paid out by the government by the creativity tax. I’m sure they can make it sound better, but technically this would take the majors pull that prevents breakouts of usually better artists.

The downsize is of course the tax part. Like i said before about the people who do not like music, (If you know anybody like this get them help, a psychiatrist or maybe an ear transplant) they may resist the tax. Another maajor downsize would be how much is the right amount? Take a percentage of how much you make or have a standard amount? In the website I mentioned above they have also been trying a 3 strike rule; Where if they catch you downloading illegally 3 times they sue you. This is where it gets difficult and all the benefits get thrown off the 35W bridge. How would you regulate who pays and who doesn’t? There will be people who fight the tax, fight the 3 strikes, fight the man, fight the bull, and even the artists who will fight for the excess of money that they have seen in the past.
The only way to see change is to start over. New plan and new strategy. Possible an overhaul of the whole system, and not just small changes of the body that could lead to ugly results… right Michael Jackson? I don’t have the statistics at hand to get into detail about how much this plan would either keep the artists nice and warm at night, or prevent further growth that could spread like disease. I’m just saying that it would be a great idea and help fight against what the industry part is trying to blame for the fall of music, when in reality it is jsut the fall of excess money in their laps

From the mind of

Keveeno Reeverts