SpiralFrog in music deal with Universal

Time is the Currency: I always laugh at the fellows who believe they are better because of wealth. Every human has the same number of minutes in a day and it matters not if you own a sailboat or vacation home when you do not have the time to use either. Hence SpiralFrog is to be commended. The pay attention to advertisements for tunes is how "free" radio has always worked, and if you recorded those you still got the commercials and SpiralFrog's concept is not really so different.

But the future holds even better use for SprialFrog. The concept can be coupled with the fastest growing hobby of photography and amature film making if there is a mechanism for purchasing the tunes for derivitive works.

This is the only reason I can think of for prohibiting the copying of tunes to CDs. If a video author comes up with something worth downloading to CD then it makes sense that some kind of payment should go to the tune makers.

The model might be the same as in book publishing. Often the payment is to just site the source, perhaps provide a URL. Sometimes it is nominal or free when there is no money being made for the work. Othertimes it is a few bucks per 1000 copies. SpiralFrog might just require some kind of advertisment on the Video CD in payment for the tune. The recogintion that time is currancy allows all this.

Frank L. Mighetto CCP; Posted by: mighetto Posted on: 08/30/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use