Ebay vs. Musician

Posted by michael on Thursday October 24, 2002 @02:14AM from the slingstones-for-sale-cheap dept.

evenprime writes "Ebay's Verified Rights Owner Program was designed to make sure the auction site doesn't let people sell things that violate copyright laws. Unfortunately, over-zealous ebay employees have been causing problems for independent musicians. George Ziemann has a detailed account of the difficulties he's faced when trying to sell copies of his CD on the auction site. Apparently ebay kept pulling his ads simply because he was selling a product recorded to CD-R! Ebay employees assume that all audio recordings on CD-R are the result of piracy, despite the fact that many indie bands burn their own music to CD-R to sell it. Wired has a nice summary of this story."

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Re:Simple solution by WetCat · 2002-10-24 02:32 · Score: 1, Redundant

There is one little catch. Some old players and CD readers cannot read anything except the printed CDs. Saying you are selling CD you are misleading the owners of that old players.
free publicity by leek · 2002-10-24 02:33 · Score: 2, Redundant

He should open his own store on his web site, and use all of his publicity against eBay to increase sales. He should have opened his store right before publicizing the eBay incident, so that the publicity would maximize his sales.