AT&T Guilty of Abusively Exploiting You? And What About Facebook? The Truth

CHICAGO - July 11, 2013 - PRLog -- Excerpted from author Glenn Clarke's new expose published in the Las Vegas Guardian Express - "Are U.S. wireless carriers ripping people off?"....

AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-mobile are exploiting you for sure but what about Facebook? In my preamble to an unfolding series of posts on how U.S. wireless carriers are ripping us off, I stated the following:

“I've uncovered truths that may one day result in billions of dollars being re-directed from the coffers of corporate America to the people who create multimedia such as images, music and videos - aka user generated content.”

Within this post, part one of the series, I will first define the term “user generated” content in relationship to “big media” content.

Before the Internet became popular you and I were inundated with a never ending flood of multimedia designed to capture our attention – primarily to sell us something. Whether it was the media itself (records, tapes, cassettes, CDs, videos, newspapers, magazines, photographs) or multimedia presentation experiences such as movies and television filled with advertising, the intention was for you and I to buy something!

The “big media” business model just described has served the world faithfully for many many years and, that model has also fueled the world economy in a huge way over the years.  But, this model could NOT have existed without copyrights. I repeat, the model previously described could not have done the huge things it did for the people of the world without copyrights.

Ironically, today copyrights are perceived more as a hindrance to progress than the enabler of success it used to be. (That misconception is critical to understanding how the wireless carriers are ripping people off.)

After the Internet became popular and digital technologies became widely and inexpensively available, you and I were empowered to create multimedia in a way that was unimaginable just a few years before. Flawless sound recordings, videos and other multimedia could be created right there in our bedrooms that looked and sounded as good as the “big media” companies were producing!

Back in the day, it used to cost an average $200 an hour for time in a professional recording studio. The best way to get your stuff recorded was to get a label to finance your productions by giving you an advance against future earnings, and so labels were an integral part of the process if a creator/artist was to get anywhere and once you were signed – they owned you.

American Idol, The X Factor and other talent venues are shining examples that there has never been a shortage of outstanding talent in the world but since “big media” was in control back in the day, they only financed the chosen few they felt would give them the largest return on their investments. Now that doesn’t make them evil, it’s just good business thinking and practices on behalf of “big media” to make a profit........

more at source:

http://guardianlv.com/2013/07/att-guilty-of-exploiting-yo...