katlaughing, the copyright wording was a mess. I'm happy it's been modified. The intent of the original wording, as I understand it, was to grant myspace the right to offer your songs as downloads and/or streamed from your myspace page. If you post music, myspace needs your permission to allow someone else to listen to it.

Personally, I've been on myspace since last November. I haven't sold a single CD through it, but I have been contacted by a couple of venues for gigs. Once or twice, the arrangement was great. Equally, though, the person contacting me turned out to be someone fairly young who happened to work at a venue and really had no authority to negotiate dates, fees, etc. Just be careful who you're interacting with.

Myspace, through it's enormous popularity, has put me in touch with other musicians, people who have become "fans" (as much as that applies in folk music) and venues. Very little of this has translated into anything financial, but it is fun.

Providing your brother does some networking, there are a few composers of orchestral music. It's not as popular as emo, grunge or whatever the latest round of 3-chord shouting is called.