Session musicians give away their $ by the “work for hire” clause, but that’s a strange one lately. It used to be that the only thing “copyrightable” in a song was the melody and lyrics. Really, I am not making this up kids! (Victor, back me up..). However with the appearance of Commodore 64’s, that has changed quite a bit, to where a guy does tracks and a singer does the lyrics and umm..singing. There are varieties of course, but the “track maker” often is a principle in the song writing, and gets the $$ as well. So “session musicians” (soon to be less in number than blacksmiths) still won’t get anything..and as Meestar Stones points out, there’s no point at all in this, except for an additional stream to the ever dwindling RIAA slush fund.

Also agree on the Union observation..I WISH it wasn’t so, but there ya go. And I have been in the musicians union 4 times…