Billy Bragg has removed his music from social-networking powerhouse Myspace. In a statement, he explained:

Once an artist posts up any content (including songs) it then belongs to MySpace (aka Rupert Murdoch) and they can do what they want with it, throughout the world, without paying the artist.

The clause which has raised concerns says that artists:

grant to Myspace.com a non-exclusive, fully-paid and royalty-free, worldwide licence (with the rights to sublicense through unlimited levels of sub licensees) to use, copy, modify, adapt, translate, publicly perform, publicly display, store, reproduce, transmit and distribute such content on and through the services.

The site objected, saying that "we don't own their music or do anything with it that they don't want." but Bragg's profile has not added the music.

The folk/punk icon recently signed with Anti- Records.