'Extraordinary' Soundtrack Will Be Apple-Exclusive

Isbiten writes "Apple has just gotten the rights to the soundtrack of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. There will be no physical CD and it will only be available from the iTunes Music Store. Cnet has the story."

Comments

What if?

[wowbagger]

What if I prefer to buy my music in a more lasting form?

What if I prefer my music to be compressed with FLAC?

What if I prefer to compress my music with MY parameters, to meet MY standards of audio fidelity?

While I am all for Apple being able to distribute this electronicly, while I can accept Apple being given sole electronic distribution rights to this music, I don't like that this won't be available as a plain ol' CD.

Re:What if?

[n.wegner]

>Art isn't public domain

To paraphrase the US constitution:

Culture is the public domain. Art is one form of culture, and culture contributes to art. The public has the right to freely enjoy its culture. The US constitution makes it very clear that copyright is only granted, for a limited time, to reward the public for creating and expanding the public domain, and the public's culture. The burden of proof lies with you.

>Just because you are used to one way of
>purchasing/enjoying art, doesn't make other
>methods 'unfair'.

In the general sense, yes. But when Apple only sells music in a worse (more lossely compressed than CD or Flac), or the Louvre only sells copies of the Mona Lisa on postcards, or Pendant publishing won't even print old liturature, then it's both unfair and unethical to deprive the public of enjoying its culture.

Re:What if?

[switcha]

The public has the right to freely enjoy its culture.
And likewise, freely make their own art/culture contribution if they don't like what's offered. With all due respect, the way you phrased your initial comment could be twisted to include 'code poetry'. Yay, software piracy is for the 'greater good'.

The US constitution makes it very clear that copyright is only granted, for a limited time, to reward the public for creating and expanding the public domain, and the public's culture.
Very clear also, is copyright law that says you can do what you want with your work until the time you aren't protected by that law, and the 'common good' stuff kicks in. As far as I know, the soundtrack was just released and has a ways to go before it's in the class of American Standards.

Apple's got something up their sleeves.

[sonicsft]

If you look at surrounding evidence that's popped up recently:
-Job posting for Windows iTunes developer
-Numerous bands are being scheduled to play Friday in apple stores, etc....
-This album announcement

I'd say Apple is about to release iTunes for windows. But I'm never very accurate on this guesses by it makes sense to me...

-sonic

Re:It's an original score...not a compilation.

[Anonymous Coward]

That's not true at all. The music for the film is recorded in a completely different set of recording sessions than the music for the soundtrack album. The acoustics of the studio are different, and the placement of microphones is changed to record for a two-channel mix versus a six-channel mix.

Score albums are entirely different recordings from the scores themselves.

Re:What's That?

[Dr Reducto]

That's exactly what I meant. Now that Apple is publishing CD's itself (exclusive distribution), Apple records has a strong standing if it wants to file an injunction against Apple computers.

Oh well, can't buy it. boohoo.

[Muggins the Mad]

And for those of us where iTunes Store isn't supported.... (ie. the rest of the civilised world)

It's only a bit of music, I'm not going to lose any sleep over not being able to buy this one, but exclusive deals in any form just suck.

I tend to shy away from services that are full of "exclusive this, exclusive that" as they're just damaging my freedom of choice.

- Colin