Argent Stonecutter

Couples to wed this summer balk at extra music fees | CTV News

The fees aren't large, but damn...

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Kara Spengler

I thought the US was the only one that got to make messed up laws. Quit stealing our monopoly Canada!

Is this fee per song or per event? If the former it can get expensive fast. If the latter who decides which performer gets which slice? If you play all Bowie songs but one by AC/DC do they get equal shares? Do they need monitors or is there some sort of form for the playlist?

Retroactive?

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Tea Panhandle

It goes into a big pot which is then shared out annually.

As for crazy laws, we are catching up fast with our southern neighbours

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Kara Spengler

Thanks. That just moves the problem though, how does anyone decide who gets what share of the pot?

Eris

So?

Zaida Gearbox

Does the US have a stupid law like that? If so, I'm probably gonna break it this summer.

Joshua Nightshade

The US does have similar performance royalty laws, and 99% of DJs in SL break it hourly.

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Innula Zenovka

We have a similar system in the UK, and have done for almost 100 years. They don't normally charge, though, for things like wedding receptions unless (I think) the venue is charging you for providing the music, in which case they might, not unreasonably, to my mind, want a share.

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Zaida Gearbox

I think that particular law is the very least of the laws regularly broken by SL DJ's. Hurry up and download your music before July 1 though!

Kara Spengler

What happens on July 1? Yet another RIA thing that will change nothing?

Zaida Gearbox

Internet Service Providers start monitoring if your downloading copyrighted content and cut you off if you are.

Ann Otoole

the music has finally died. before i died damnit.

Ann Otoole

so youtube and all the copyright owner channels must close? because YOU HAVE TO DOWNLOAD IT TO HEAR IT.

dumbasses. I honestly wish death in a fire to each and every lawyer on earth.

Joshua Nightshade

This sounds like a chain letter passed on Facebook.

OMG FACEBOOK WILL START CHARGING IF U DONT SEND THIS TO 23 FRIENDS BY 4PM!!!!

Zaida Gearbox

No, it was on here a couple of months ago.

RIAA chief: ISPs to start policing copyright by July 1 | Media Maverick - CNET News

Joshua Nightshade

That's not what that says at all.

It's not that much more than what Comcast and Time Warner do now when they get complaints from the RIAA/MPAA.

Casper Priestman

No. And this tax is nothing new it's already existed in different forms, this is just an additional stacking of the same bloody thing. Canadians already pay an additional tax on recorded media ie: tapes, cd, and dvd, that's supposed to go to the artists. As well, recorded music companies that provide DJ's pay a royalty tax on the music. Got elevator music in your store...taxed....got it on your phone line.....taxed. Any community hall or similar venue that holds an event....yep...already taxed for music royalty. All they're doing now is adding an additional tax being levied on the end client. As to these fees being paid out to artists? Right....we all know how that goes.....it doesn't.

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Kara Spengler

This will not end well. Oh sure, you can have it skip downloads from iTunes and what not, but what about all those independent artists out there that sell MP3s on their websites? Not to mention that people are already discussing ways around it.

Hmm, does this mean those ISPs would lose safe harbor status? Not sure what is in it for them to give that up.

Sredni Eel

Only 99%?

I would think clubs would bear some of that responsibility, as well.

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Kara Spengler

Two differences:

1) Actions can be taken. That happens now to some extent if you load the network but it is usually an informal policy (and quite controversial).

2) It sounds like the ISPs decide when to take the measures based on packet monitoring, not a DMCA complaint from the copyright holders.

I am also not sure if the division that would be doing this would even have the right email address to contact me. Their billing department has the right one for me but I never use the email address that ISP gave me when I signed up for my connection. So what happens if I never receive the notices?

Joshua Nightshade

In RL yeah, on the internet not so much. The one supplying the music is the "performer" and is supposed to pay the royalties. Most DJs in SL have their own libraries, I don't think any venues supply them to the DJ. As such the DJ is supposed to be taking care of reporting. I don't think any of them bother, though.

Zaida Gearbox

I never check my Comcast email. The only time I log in is when I pay my bill online.

Sredni Eel

If DJs did pay licensing fees, there's be a lot less of us. And those who did pay the fees would be demanding fees from clubs to cover those costs, which would lead to virtually no music except from live performers. It just wouldn't be worth it, considering most of us just do this as a hobby, and not for real life pay or anything.

Yeah, I'm one of the 99%.

On the other hand, there's a reason most of the stuff I play is out of print and obscure.

Joshua Nightshade

They don't send it to your email, they send it to the billing address.

My mother called me up frantically one day convinced that the FBI was going to arrest her because she got a letter from Bellsouth warning her that the "MACGYVER'S BEST EPISODES" she downloaded was copyrighted content and she might be liable for legal action if she continued downloading those types of files.

Zaida Gearbox

And all of this just reminds me that I have about $30 in music I want to download from Amazon before the wedding. *skips off to Amazon*