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  1. Creative Commons pilot by Krishnoid · · Score: 1 · on Anti-piracy Group Fined For Using Song Without Permission

    They refer to a Creative Commons pilot program on their website, but it's in Dutch, and the translation is a little hard to understand. Can someone describe what this is about a bit more clearly than Google Translate?

  2. Already in the Netherlands by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on SABAM Wants Truckers To Pay For Listening To Radio

    I think this is already the case in the Netherlands, because if you listen to the music while you are working, you have to pay money to Stemra. Even if you have bought the cd.

    See renumeration: http://www.bumastemra.nl/en-US/MuziekgebruikOpgeven/WanneerBetalen.htm

  3. Re:Somebody please, stop the madness by tsa · · Score: 1 · on Listening To The Radio At Work? Prepare To Be Sued

    I looked around on the website of BUMA/STEMRA (the Dutch RIAA). There is some very interesting info there, but what is even more interesting is that nowhere on the website could I find how much the artists get of all the money BUMA/STEMRA collects.

  4. Re:I do... by tsa · · Score: 1 · on Review of Amazon's DRM-Less Music Download Store

    You're right. But here in the Netherlands, thanks to the BUMA/STEMRA (they're the Dutch RIAA) I guess, CD's are still rediculously expensive. It's hard to find a CD for 10 euros if you don't live in a big city like Amsterdam or Utrecht, unless you are lucky enough to run into it in the Sales bin. With a price difference between iTMS and a 'real' CD of more than 4 or 5 euros, the iTMS DRM suddenly doesn't look so bad anymore, although it's annoying. I think I'll still buy at the iTMS every now and then but I will check Amazon and AllofMP3 first now I have the choice.

  5. Re:Don't miss the entertainment industry connectio by bvdbos · · Score: 5, Informative · on Dutch Court Orders Lycos to Reveal Client

    Brein is not a government-appointed foundation, it's a foundation which is set up and paid for by the music-industry. They act like they have the authoroty to prosecute just like the RIAA does, but they have just as much right to do so like every other individual. One of the founders of Brein is the organisation BUMA/STEMRA which is the dutch organsation for collection and distibution of royalties for the componists, bands and producers. Over here if, as a componist or a band, you don't become a member of BUMA/STEMRA you can't have cd's made. You'll have to burn them yourselves or you have to go abroad. When you become a member you'll have to pay quite some money, so only the real popular bands will be able to gain some money.

  6. Royalties (might) go to artists by Tune · · Score: 2, Informative · on CD Copying Kiosks Endorsed in Australia

    In the Netherlands legal problems are often solved by legalizing the crime. This is of course an exaggeration, but think of the infamous drugs and abortion legislation. In that line it is not surprising that although you are not allowed to copy music to (analog) audiotapes for commercial purposes ("fair use") you pay a certain fee for each empty tape (typically $0.25-0.50) as well as any new CD/LP/tape? with contents. (The same fee probably goes for empty CDRs, though I'm not sure)

    The money collected does not go back directly into the record industry's pockets, but is distributed by an organisation called Buma/Stemra. (Link is in Dutch only, so use the fish.) Each (Dutch?) artist gets a share, which is statistically determined by Buma/stemra, based on record sales, radio broadcasts and festivals. This "intelectual tax" constitutes only a small amount of money for an individual artist (typically $10-$100 per year, for an amature band that sold 1000-5000 records), but it seems to be a fair start.

    Could a system like that work in Australia as well?