it's all about the fans, right? my guess is that this is one way to compete against free - your former label has every incentive to squeeze every nickel out of what they own ... namely the catalog they are making available ... perhaps the real argument is that more artists should pay attention on the positive effects of making moves that benefit the band/talent *NOW* including broader mixes of deals on touring, performance, user-generated competitions, better accounting for more transparency to determine the value of the music that favorably incentivizes all parties to make money!

the radiohead competitions with fans are excellent examples ... the heavy-handed treatment of user-generated video is a bit less consistent & improperly analyzed as has been determined in a number of deployments & productions

now OTOH hand, if an inventor goes out to assert their own rights, whether or not they choose to manufacture *anything* (people do not buy technology per se, they buy goods & services derived from the innovation - every machine, is a particular machine operating for a particular user or users in a particular manner or manners), everyone finds that "troll"-ish ... quite hypocritical ... we should all be given the right to profit over our intellectual property & encourage vigorous debate on the how & why all people should have access to the same protections ...