http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/02/05/015231.shtml
RIAA Wants Songwriter Royalty Lowered

“Lest there be anyone left who believes the RIAA’s propaganda that its litigation campaign is intended to benefit the ‘creators’ of the music, Hollywood Reporter reports that the RIAA is asking the Copyright Royalty Board to lower songwriter royalties on song file downloads, from the present rate of 9 cents per song – about 13% of the wholesale price – down to 8% of wholesale. Meanwhile, the big digital music companies, such as Apple, want the royalty rate lowered even more, to something like 4% of wholesale. So any representations by any of these companies that they are concerned for the ‘creators’ of the music must henceforth be taken with a boxcar-load of salt.”

目前的商業型態是以通路商為主體，所以通路商的發言權就是一切….
現在作曲者得到的權利金大約是13%(9cents per song)，RIAA要求降到8%；Apple乾脆要求降到4%。

相比之下JASRAC還算好的…. _A_