I appreciate the concern, I do get royalties (things have changed since that interview) if the venue reports it to the PRO (ASCAP in my case), or at least that's how it works in the United States - performance royalties are weird, and they may have assumed it's royalty free.
@SamuelHydenburg@cosyposter@g_ths Correct. It is roughly 35 years old. 2016 is when was released on streaming services as various vaporwave artists had released it as their own work shortly after “This American Life” did a story on it in 2014. Prior to that, its only “platform” was Cisco.
YouTube’s easy if you’re distributing through a publisher you’ve acquired a compulsory license through (assuming the song’s from the U.S., that is a feature of OUR copyright system). Content ID is more of a “saving throw”
Downloads are kinda like vinyl, someone is owed a check now.