Back to the good old days (Score 1)

One way to solve this whole problem would be to eliminate music copyrights entirely. Most musicians would be unaffected by this change. They would continue to get paid to perform live, as they have done for thousands of years, and as the vast majority of musicians still do, ignored by the recording industry. The impact of eliminating the whole concept of copyrighted music would be limited to the recording industry itself, and the small percentage of artists they have selected to use as farm animals.