i'm sure no one will read this, but i need to go on a limb here and defend apple. statutory rate for album sales is 9.1 cents per track. publishers are being paid the same for songs on iTunes as they are on album sales. this isn't a situation where a corporation is being greedy.
and ACTUALLY, publishers get a higher payout from iTunes that they'd been getting for regular album says. usually, record labels have a controlled composition clause in their deals with artists stating that they won't pay the statutory rate on songs that were co-written by the artist. however, since the iTunes thing happened so quickly, labels went ahead and just started paying the statutory rate for digital downloads - meaning writers actually get MORE money when their songs are purchased on iTunes than when their songs are purchased on a CD in-store.
and ACTUALLY, publishers get a higher payout from iTunes that they'd been getting for regular album says. usually, record labels have a controlled composition clause in their deals with artists stating that they won't pay the statutory rate on songs that were co-written by the artist. however, since the iTunes thing happened so quickly, labels went ahead and just started paying the statutory rate for digital downloads - meaning writers actually get MORE money when their songs are purchased on iTunes than when their songs are purchased on a CD in-store.
get your facts straight before you take sides