Don't many of the biggies, PolyGram/Universal/EMI/BMG own much of the rights to the music, so no matter the medium, they get paid? Wasn't that always why bands complained how the music company took most of teh money and gave teh bands 5 cents out of a several dollar LP? so few groups became as big as some big record companies....there ain't many Rolling Stones, Beatles that own much of their own stuff. How many bands don't and the music companys do? Speaking of Beatles, they originally came out on Parlafone, then it was Capitol, then they have their own Apple, that seems to own it and EMI, who owns what and how complicated