RIAA, Music Unions Agree On Payments For Digital Play

Anonymous Brave Guy writes "BBC News is reporting that musicians and artists will now be paid directly for broadcasts of their work in the U.S., without the cash going to record company middle men, as a result of a deal struck between trade unions and industry representatives including the RIAA." Note the tidbit toward the end of the story mentioning the new European copyright directive, and saying "It gives copyright owners permission to use encryption to block the duplication of copyright-protected works." Permission?

Comments

Re:Why a new organization?

[davecb]

So they would have an opportunity to negotiate different terms than they did with ASCAP, BMI and finally SESAC.

Re:Fair use

[evvk]

> --NO DCMA in EUROPE!--

Yeah, right. Such an evil directive has already been accepted by the council: http://eurorights.org/eudmca/ . It will just take some time before it becomes a law in the member states.
See also http://eurorights.org/twiki/bin/view/Eurorights/We bHome .

that looks familiar

[Dr. Awktagon]

Wouldn't it have been easier just to post a link?

Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act

[yerricde]

remember that the _purpose_ of copyright is to encourage many people to read the works, and eventually change and incorporate them in new works

If individuals want to incorporate copyrighted works into new works without a lawsuit or royalties bankrupting them, they have to wait for the copyright to expire. Yeah, right. Not in my lifetime nor in yours. Copyrights already last 95 years, and you can bet that by 2020, Di$ney will have contributed another $6 million of soft money to the Republicratic Party in exchange for yet another term extension. How the courts consider 95 years as sufficiently "limited Times" designed "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" escapes me.

Boycott the estate of Sonny Bono, whose widow introduced and sponsored the bill. Boycott Cher, who has been quoted as favoring a term of "forever less a day." Boycott the Walt Disney Company, which bankrolled the bribes that got the bill passed. Boycott all color motion pictures produced by MPAA member studios, as the first commercial color film technology appeared in 1923, and all works created on or after January 1, 1923, are under an effective perpetual copyright in the United States.

May Sonny Bono rot in he11.