This is of particular interest to me… When I do a mix for someone, I have NO LEGAL WAY to pay for the rights to chop up a song and include it in a mix for a SINGLE customer. I can pay around $1 per song to sell compilation CDs, but as soon as I edit the song(s) and add other beats, etc., I have no way to pay for those rights.
It seems insane to me that I can sell the WHOLE song for $1 (like iTunes), but I can’t sell a TINY PART of it.
The bigger problem for me is that in order to bring this up to the powers that be, I’d be putting myself at risk, and I’d be in hot water with the Harry Fox Agency again.