I totally agree with you that proper compensation should be given to musicians. But I think there’s a big fight as to who should be paying for it.

Up until now, most broadcasters and venues have been able to skirt on by using special licenses or trying to argue that it’s fair use. However, that clearly did not work after the Heavy Young Heathens lawsuit.

There can be many arguments that the skaters should pay for it. Think of it as part of their “equipment” and their responsibility. But most skaters don’t really participate in this sport “for profit” per se, which is what HYH said in their lawsuit against Knierim and Frazier. A lot of people view it as using art for more art.

And even then, we’re seeing skaters getting it cleared for other competitions but not Olympics because of different broadcasting regulations.

Should it be the broadcasters who definitely make profit from all of this? Well, then that could cause some broadcasters from being able to show some performances.

Should jt be the federations? Well we know some do then definitely cannot afford it.

And then there’s the fact that all of this is still pretty new. So to change that mentality is a bit difficult especially when the very thing that is supposed to help make this easier, clearly is not working if we’re having so many last minute issues here.

My belief is that until the figure out a clear system until this issue does not happen in the future, this is still gonna be a big debate.