Potemkine!
In that case, authors would not be allowed to sell the rights to their songs in order to have money now, rather than a small income over their whole lifetime. Which money they might need immediately.
A band might want to buy themselves musical instruments, houses, a home studio, or just masses of cocaine. The last two are effectively the same in terms of financial return on investment...
Also if an author died the day after they wrote the song, should their family not be entitled to some of the money they would have received if the author lived to a ripe old age?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
