{"id":10546,"date":"2005-05-23T07:04:46","date_gmt":"2005-05-23T11:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mercuryranch.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/23\/its-only-music-but\/"},"modified":"2023-03-28T09:20:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T14:20:52","slug":"its-only-music-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/its-only-music-but\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Only Music, But&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogmaverick.com\/\">Mark Cuban<\/a> blogs about something we writers should be very interested in&#8211;he proposes a music tax.   As one of his commenters points out, how long before we pay an &#8220;I got shot&#8221; tax or, in our case, a tax to protect the intellectual property of our writings.  The $750 per year he proposes for commercial intellectual property sounds a bit steep for your average working writer (even the $100 per year he proposes for the non-commercial property&#8211;intended to protect the idea&#8211;sounds steep to me).<\/p>\n<p>From Mark Cuban&#8217;s perspective this makes a lot of sense.  I&#8217;m not certain it makes sense for the copyright owner.  Well, it might make sense, but it doesn&#8217;t sound fiscally feasible.  It&#8217;s certainly food for thought.  While it is just an idea of his, I doubt he&#8217;s the only one who&#8217;s thought of it, and some of his commenters are already in tune with my thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Cuban blogs about something we writers should be very interested in&#8211;he proposes a music tax. As one of his commenters points out, how long before we pay an &#8220;I got shot&#8221; tax or, in our case, a tax to protect the intellectual property of our writings. The $750 per <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/its-only-music-but\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15372,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10546\/revisions\/15372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}