[News] Attacks on Legal Sharing Harms Artists
Roy Schestowitz
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Labels may be losing money, but artists are making more than ever
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| It's interesting too that, overall, industry
| revenues have grown in the period - though
| admittedly not by much - which arguably adds
| strength to the notion that, when the BPI
| releases its annual report claiming how much
| 'the music industry' has suffered from the
| growth in illegal file-sharing, what it
| perhaps should be saying is how much the
| record labels have suffered.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/13/labels-may-be-losing.html
Copyright Time Bomb Set to Disrupt Music, Publishing Industries
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| Labels already file new copyrights for
| remasters. For example, Sony Music filed a
| new copyright for the remastered version of
| Ben Folds Five’s Whatever and Ever Amen
| album, and when Omega Record Group
| remastered a 1991 Christmas recording, the
| basis of its new copyright claim was “New
| Matter: sound recording remixed and
| remastered to fully utilize the sonic
| potential of the compact disc medium.”
|
| This might sound familiar, because
| BlueBeat.com employed similar logic in
| creating new copyrights to Beatles songs —
| right before it was sued by EMI and a judge
| barred them from continuing to sell the
| songs.
|
| If the labels’ best strategy to avoid losing
| copyright grants or renegotiating them at an
| extreme disadvantage is the same one they’re
| suing other companies for using, they’re in
| for quite a bumpy — or, rather, an even
| bumpier — ride.
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Do music artists fare better in a world with illegal file-sharing?
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| This is the graph the record industry
| doesn’t want you to see.
|
| It shows the fate of the three main pillars
| of music industry revenue - recorded music,
| live music, and PRS revenues (royalties
| collected on behalf of artists when their
| music is played in public) over the last 5
| years.
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Swedish Internet Traffic Recovers After Initial IPRED Scare
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| In response to the news, Swedish Pirate
| Party Chairman Rick Falkvinge told
| TorrentFreak that most experts believed that
| the initial “scare effect” would wear off in
| time. They were absolutely right.
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http://torrentfreak.com/swedish-internet-traffic-recovers-after-initial-ipred-scare-091113/
German Court Rules Ripping CDs Legal
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| The German Federal Constitutional Court in
| Karlsruhe recently upheld provision 53 of
| that country’s copyright law against a legal
| challenge by the record industry whom have
| against the provision for allowing digital
| copying of CDs for private use.
|
| The court dismissed the claim on technical
| grounds because the provision was part of
| the copyright law of 2003, and a claim has
| to be filed within one year of it taking
| effect.
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http://www.zeropaid.com/news/87218/german-court-rules-ripping-cds-legal/
Recent:
Stephen Fry on copyright
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| At an event in London last night, the writer, actor, and gadget fan Stephen
| Fry launched a surprisingly ferocious attack on the music and movie
| industries over the way they have acted to defend their copyright.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/
Richard Marx (!) attacks RIAA after $1.92M Thomas verdict
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| Jammie Thomas-Rasset was held liable to sharing 24 songs, including one by
| pop crooner Richard Marx. But the lawsuit wasn't done in Marx's name—this
| week, he called out the recording industry's "greedy actions."
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Moby: The RIAA Needs to be Disbanded
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| The two million dollar fine handed out to Jammie Thomas by a Minnesota jury
| this week hasn’t done the music industry’s image much good. While lawyers and
| high level managers at the major labels cracked open the Champagne, artists
| such as Moby and Radiohead shook their heads in shame at what the music world
| has become.
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http://torrentfreak.com/moby-the-riaa-needs-to-be-disbanded-090620/
Morrissey tells fans to boycott new box set reissues
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| The former Smiths singer claimed in a statement issued to fan site
| True-to-you.net, which he often communicates through, that he wouldn't
| receive any money from the reissues, released on November 2, and that he was
| not asked for approval for their release.
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http://www.nme.com/news/morrissey/46616
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