LOL, this is amazing... the RIAA's royalty collection division 'SoundExchange' has applied and secured a legal compulsory license that applies to all recorded music. SoundExchange (the RIAA) considers any digital performance of a song as falling under their compulsory license. If any artist records a song, SoundExchange has the right to collect royalties for its performance on Internet radio. Artists can offer to download their music for free, but they cannot offer their songs to Internet radio for free. (http://soundexchange.com/faq.html#a7) So how it works is that SoundExchange collects money through compulsory royalties from Webcasters and holds onto the money. If a label or artist wants their share of the money, they must become a member of SoundExchange and pay a fee to collect their royalties (http://soundexchange.com/faq.html#b6). But, and this is a big "but," you only get royalties if you own the sound recording copyright. If you are signed to a major label, chances are you don’t. Even if you do own the copyright to your own recording of your own song, SoundExchange will collect Internet radio royalties for your song even if you don’t want them to do so. This is incredible... if this stays in effect the RIAA could become the richest most powerful company in the world. imagine collecting money from anyone who puts their music on the internet, even if they don't want you to. I am VERY against this... RIAA = BULLSHIT
Yes, fuck the RIAA! One of my papers is about this subject on how US organisations like RIAA and the US entertainment industry is trying to get a worldwide monopoly by imposing it's will on the rest of the world whether they like it or not. Using the excuse they have to protect copyrights on behave of creators, they actually just want to make more money for themselves. RIAA -shoot
They cant do shit in Canada as long as we burn them on CDs! LOL. Why? Cause when we buy blank CDs (whether it's CD/W or CD/RW) they charge a fraction of CD cost as copyright. They also charge that on each USB and mp3 players as well (higher $ on USB and mp3 players than CDs) I think the Superme Court of Canada declared that it's legal to BT or download music/movies from internet. They compare it to the print version of such practice, books. After purchasing a book, you may lend it to ur friends, resell the book without the author's permission, put it in library for public to read for free, or scan it onto computer and send it to someone else. They said "how comes books can have such kind of freedom but not movies and music?" so they voted in favour for freedom of sharing movies and music because we have paid for the copyright when buying CDs and digital media should have the same limitation as books.
^Bless the Canadian governement! At this moment The Netherlands isn't charging extra money on USB sticks and mp3's as it's clashing with the Dutch copyright law and I hope the the government won't bow for these conservative instances who treats the digital public domain the same way as the 'offline world'. The more control, the less creative works are being produced (which was copyrights original goal, not just making money of it) and the more ways people will find to overcome these stupid rules.
yeah, i love living in canada, i dont haveta worry about the FBI knocking down my door. though, if the CSIS come callin, u will probably never hear from me again.
There's also a secret organisation that's even scarier than FBI or CSIS, it's called The Company....-cool2
Weird... they impose a fee for something which is illegal? What kind of logic is that? So are they in fact encouraging such illegal activity or what? Bless is Canada Although our iPods cost more
and here are the faces of the sobs at the riaa: http://consumerist.com/consumer/riaa/faces-of-the-riaa-244519.php
Sort of... all you need to do is download files from Canada then u're legit. On BT, as long as you see a peer that is downloading in Canada then u're safe. It's kind of like money-laudrying, except this is digital-laundrying. If you want a song, download it, send it to a Canadian. Delete your original file. Ask that Canadian to send it back to you and that's a legit copy.
