John Hichborn is a one-man royalty tracker. “Royalty tracking, as an industry, has become increasingly important in the electronic age, when well-known songs are sampled for commercials, thrown onto cheap CD compilations, and even used for video games. There can be considerable money at stake. A publisher is supposed to be paid 8 cents per song for each copy sold. The writer then receives his share from what he has agreed to as part of the deal. That can add up. ‘The record industry is a swamp of disappearing money’.”
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School Daze: Creativity Beyond The Classroom
So maybe school isn’t for everybody. A surprising number of creative and accomplished people were expelled or dropped out of high school. Some find school rejection “catastrophic in the worst way. They start to think of themselves as worthless. Others see it as a challenge. The curtain hasn’t dropped on their creativity and emotional development. They say to themselves, ‘So be it. Adults don’t think very much of me. I’m going to prove them wrong’.”