Welcome to the Machine (a working subtitle)
Following on from having SoundCloud take down something I put up I thought I’d try and do the right thing and organise a way to legally put up covers in addition to my own content there. To be clear the main purpose of doing so is for friends to see what I’m doing and comment about it. I have no desire to make money out it nor seek thousands of followers.
What a ‘fscking’ nightmare that’s turned out to be. All I have to show after two days trawling various websites, sending requests to contacts (incidentally finding some supposedly major rights managers’ contact information is a link to the google map of where their office is!) is one reply that: a) pointed me to a link to something that doesn’t mention the matter at all and, b) gave me a link to the website that I had got the email address for the contact from.
Waters and GIlmour may have been less than flattering but it seems very believable now.
But …
I’ve got to ask isn’t there an easier way? So far all my efforts have done is convince me that there’s no point in trying. I mean surely I am not the only person in this position? What do others do?