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RIAA, Music Unions Agree On Payments For Digital Play

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the making-money-sweet-money dept.

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?

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  1. The irony of all of this is... by Newer+Guy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That the artists already have an orginization called The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). Unlike that one, this 'new' one has partial RIAA control. The final irony is that the BBC used a graphic for WorldClassRock.com, a web site that I set the streaming up for (15 different streams)and is now down to a single mono 20k stream (in other words is practically defunct).

  2. Interesting article at MSNBC by ryants · · Score: 5, Interesting
    This is mostly on-topic... I think... oh well.

    MSNBC has this article which is a pretty description of the origins of copyright in the US and how the system is currently completely out of whack.

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    Ryan T. Sammartino
    "Ancora imparo"

  3. RIAA CA, possibly. by imrdkl · · Score: 4, Interesting
    "It gives copyright owners permission to use encryption to block the duplication of copyright-protected works." Permission?

    My guess: artists will be issued certificates from RIAA authority. (CA)

    Yes, I understand that keys is is all they need to encrypt their music and not actual certificates, but hey, maybe I want "certified" music. heh. Anyways, this is one way for RIAA to stay in the picture.

    prediction: next they'll wanna sell their music to me encrypted with my own key.

    I never used Napster... was this a feature?

  4. Re:artists, etc. by dhogaza · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Speaking of Warner Brothers, they've got one of my photos on two of their pages at the official Harry Potter website. You can include it in e-postcards you send.

    They did not ask my permission. They did not pay for the use of my copyrighted work (this particular photo has been sold for publication several times).

    Needless to say we'll be talking (they've already made an offer to another photographer in the same situation).

    In all fairness, it's the web design firm's that at fault, but I find the irony quite humorous.