Let me first of all clarify that it is a licence we're talking about, not a tax or a levy.
I think it's important to note that there are many songwriters out there who don't have the luxury of benefiting from touring or from selling CDs off the stage, selling T-shirts, or selling concert tickets. So it's as important to us to come up with a solution that is good for the songwriter as it is for the artist-songwriter, because these are people who have to put bread on their table.
If you had a consumer on one side of the table and an artist-songwriter on the other side of the table, and the consumer said, “Gee, I don't want to pay for music”, because that's really what we're talking about, the artist-songwriter would basically say, “Well, then, I don't eat this week”. I think there's a logical and very simplistic view and way we can present this proposal.
This is just one part of the industry. This isn't the be-all and end-all. It's like my buddy walking down the street and he breaks his leg. Am I going to put a band-aid on his shoulder, or am I going to focus on his leg, which is broken?
We need to focus on the biggest part that's really hurting. It's been ten years. I think we're due to focus on it now.