Then there would be a physical, or what we call on the publishing side, a mechanical royalty, to the extent that these are protected compositions, which is 8.1ยข per song in Canada. If you do the math on that and look at the retail markup, he's probably still doing okay. When you break that down on an individual songwriter basis, no one is making a ton of money there, other than the person selling that compilation for the five easy payments.
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