Granted, it has been nearly ten years since I was involved in creating an online music store. But it appears that mechanical licenses still do not grant rights to display album art to consumers, even if the two standard agreements I have seen appear to cover online distribution, at least for download services.

Note that the radio station agreements are very different from the online/internet/mobile agreements.

Tell that to the record labels and the agencies that collect royalties in different countries. THEY are the ones requiring the geo-fencing and different pricing for different countries.

If you try to negotiate rights to sell or play any music, you will soon start wondering if the record label wants your money or not, because it will seem like they don't. It does not even matter if you are part of the same company group as a the record label you are negotiating with. Been there, done that.

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You are like the Swedes who always talk about how much "free" stuff they have...and this goes right along with that. take a look at how much they pay in tax...starting with that lovely little 90% + inheritance tax.

While I agree that the taxes in Sweden are way too high, that anything payed for by taxes is by definition ("payed for") not free and I also know that a lot of money is lost in the administration said taxes, you REALLY need to take econ 101 for Swedish circumstances before even thinking of talking about Swedish taxes. Cas á point: The inheritance tax in Sweden i 0 (ZERO) percent. We had an inheritance tax a few years back, though. It was 30%, after subtracting a tax free amount of money (about $10k if I recall correctly). So currently, the US inheritance tax (whatever it is) is more unfair than the Swedish one, considering that inheritec money most likely is money that the deceased already has paid income tax for.

--Tage

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