We ran across this great letter to a producer from a songwriter, NJ White in the UK, as to why he is not willing to give away his work to the producer for free. \u00a0The link is on Paul Resnikoff\u2019s Digital Music News website. It\u2019s a great read.<\/p>\n
Read it at this link<\/a> or the site at http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/my5r2gr<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n We especially like the part that reads: \u201c…even the cleaner who mopped your set and scrubbed the toilets after the shoot will get paid. The musician. Give him nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n But the best is the line in response to the request for free, which reads; \u201cThe answer is a resounding, and permanent NO.\u201d<\/p>\n For those few of you that might ask \u201cWhat does this have to do with photographers?\u201d, well, \u00a0all we can say is \u201cEverything.\u201d Bravo Mr. White.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We ran across this great letter to a producer from a songwriter, NJ White in the UK, as to why he is not willing to give away his work to the producer for free. \u00a0The link is on Paul Resnikoff\u2019s Digital Music News website. It\u2019s a great read. Read it at this link or the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,1,7,100,20,6],"tags":[269,477,270,159],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-be-aware","category-copyright-info","category-giving-it-away","category-in-the-news","category-stuff-you-should-know","category-you-cant-make-this-up","tag-digital-music-news","tag-giving-it-away","tag-nj-white","tag-working-for-free"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1157,"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions\/1157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}