FYI
You and your readers need to be aware of SIRA, the Section 115 Reform Act of 2006 that is going to be introduced to the House tomorrow. The guys over at IPaction.org have a writeup about this bill here:http://ipaction.org/
In a nutshell:
“It would require all incidental copies of music to be licensed separately from the originating copy. Even copies of songs that are cached in your computer’s memory or buffered over a network would need yet another license”
This of course comes from the legions of the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property. I’ve already called a few of the offices of the representatives about this. I would recommend you and your readers in the US will want to do the same.
Link to the PDF of the Discussion Draft of the bill here.
Commentary on the Discussion Draft by the CRB here.
Daniel E. Spisak
If this piece of shyte passes the next thing that will happen is requiring broadcast fees for having friends over to listen to some tunes.
Glad I live north of the 49th where this sort of stuff doesn’t happen(yet).
I’m one of those who’ve bought all the music I’ve ripped (about 8700 songs). I think that those who produce the product deserved to be paid.
I give up now. I’m not buying music any longer. They are crazy sue-happy. I don’t want to buy their product and then risk being sued because I failed to use it in some stupid-limited way. We really aren’t far away from, “Hey, your friend listened to it in the car – it’s a private license we sold you – you owe us extra for that CD so we’re going to sue you,” nonsense.
They’ve lost me as a customer. To hell with them. I’m not buying any more CDs or DVDS.
Dvorak stop hotlinking images, atleast put a link to there site!
Editor’s note (SN not John): Chris, please learn how to write complete sentences, learn how to spell, and learn the difference between “there” and “their.” Thanks!
For muddyboy:
I got this from a friend. I wasn’t (at first) sure if it was a joke:
RIAA Claims Music On Car Radios Meant Only For Original Vehicle Owner!
Trade Group Vows To Go After Passengers Who Illegally Share Soundwaves.
The Recording Industry Association of America announced today it would be expanding its crackdown on copyright infringement by suing family members, hitchhikers and carpoolers.
Lawyers for the RIAA maintain that the radio in each car was never meant to be listened to by anyone else except the original owner of the vehicle.
Therefore, any additional passengers who listen to music on the radio in another individual’s car are doing so illegally and without the express permission of the copyright holders of the respective songs that are broadcast.
RIAA attorneys were preparing to go to Federal District courts across
the country to have subpoenas issued to every car maker in America in the hopes of forcing them to disclose the names and addresses of all purchasers from the last 20 years.
“We think this is a no brainer,” said an RIAA spokesperson who declined to be identified. “These drivers have been illegally sharing music on their radios and their passengers have been getting a free ride for way too long,” he continued.
Legal representatives for the RIAA also warned that they would
especially be targeting the “big fish” like charter bus drivers and RV
owners who blatantly turn up the radio volume allowing others to hear.
In addition, RIAA lawyers said they were hoping to get a court order to
exhume the bodies of Scottish physicist James Clerk-Maxwell, who
developed the theory of electromagnetic waves and Guglielmo Marconi, who discovered and harnessed wireless radio in order to sue both corpses for unfair business practices.
It’s satire, John, 😉
http://radio.about.com/library/weekly/aa082603a.htm
This is just one more example of why this do-nothing congress and senate need to be sent back home.
The “do nothing” part if for the citizens. But they will “do anything” for big business.
Thanks Paradox, I forgot all about car audio. What about elevators, malls and department stores. What happens if you are out in YOUR yard and the neighbour has a boom box or radio turned up. Should you go back in the house, plug your ears or what?
I think they should go after all the soon to be deaf as a post people with the loud car stereos. Some of them are loud enough to be considered to be broadcasting. That would be sweet, they would get the cash they so obviously lust after and we might get a little more peace and quiet.
Is there a precedent on this kind of stuff? I mean, is there a time in our history when large corporations, protecting their own interest, had so much control over the legislators, and which bills become law? When a law was passed that simply protected the interest of a few large companies?
No one has to buy music to live. Stop buying the crap and the industry will collapse in a few months.
The music industry is trying desperately to kill itself. what’s next? I’ll have to buy a different license to every room in the house that I listen to music? Ludicrous.
Now I’m lost….
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/07/another_effing_own_goal/
I’m not a musician but if you wanted to own something I made I would expect that you would pay something for it or learn to play an instrument yourself. No offense but it’s seriously hard work to get something recorded to a good sound quality and the musicians get little enough share of that pie as it is.
Tom the artists get so little because the music industries ARE RIPPING THEM OFF (you know the companies that finance the RIAA).