In this age of diminishing returns for the hardest working in ANY field, you have dealt a severe blow to the music industry and you act like it was nothing at all!

Many musicians have spent their lives perfecting their craft, only to have the rug pulled out from under them as the landscape changed quickly and dramatically. It took some scrambling to regain any type of music income when mp3s replaced the CD, when the CD and stores fell out of favour, and the hardy were just getting some of their footing back with an increase in internet performances and their (meager) royalties... and now this? A cold hard bludgeoning is what you perpetrated, and see what you caused?!

Royalties were already low, but they were there in spirit, and commensurate with the US. Now Canada's rates are far, far below the US, and if you do the math you will see that a massive 'hit' might earn just enough for a burger and fries.

Stations of all stripes are getting a cushy ride using other's hard won art for little or arguably no payment. What little comes back to the artist is not just low, it is negligible, and does not take the creators of the works seriously enough to compensate them in any realistic way. Soon the art will stop because there is no avenue left to recoup ANYTHING.

You really need to AT LEAST match the US rates and stop cutting deals for the stations who whine and want it all free!

I have spent my life with my craft and even though I have had a half dozen Billboard charting 'hits', it translates to NOTHING! (Oh, I did get a burger and fries once).