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Clear Channel Buys Patent For Instant Live CDs
An anonymous reader writes "According to this Rolling Stone article, and this article at P2P, everyone's favorite monopolist, Clear Channel, is bullying DiscLive and other companies in the available-after-the-concert live CD business by forbidding them from operating in their venues.
Looking at the actual Clear Channel patent itself, it's obvious that, unlike what is said by their Instant Live program head Steve Simon, their patent is very specific, and doesn't cover all media types and all onsite production, so isn't CC just standing behind a bogus patent to continue to act like a monopolist? Anyone have prior art to invalidate their patent?"
At least they are my favorite monopolist. Who is ClearChannel anyway?
Anyone have prior art to invalidate their patent?
Back in 1988, I recorded a Pet Shop Boys concert on DAT, and got mugged outside the stadium. Does that count as instant distribution?
The RIAA sues ClearChannel for illegally suing anyone for any reason having to do with music before they had a chance to get in on the fun.
Oh wait a minute, Live Music CD's
But this time. ClearChannel patented bootlegging + dubbing + corprate logo. The only thing new there is the legitimacy of the copy, and that's essentially only new in the US and only in so far as people aren't talking about bands who weren't freindly to such activities. This is akin to someone inventing a hotdog cart, and you patenting selling hotdogs from a cart.
There are probably only a thousand or so professors in universities around the country that can demonstrate prior art to this trivially obvious idea. The people who signed the patent should be killed as a warning to others who non-sensically take it upon themselves to waste the time of the bureaucrats in the patent office.
And do it like room 101 from 1984. Only no rats threatening to chew through ones face. Make them angry, malnourished rats in a plexiglass tube stuck to their pooper. Have them actually chew through the people, and televise it. Then award each rat a Presidential Medals of Freedom.
the patent specifically states that aspects of the process can be left out whilst still performing the same function - ie editing module etc.
:)
I think I'm going to patent "Process of urinating through big media corporations letterbox" and seeing how far I get
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Maybe the grassroots, word-of-mouth approach isn't that bad afterall...
Nah, thats just hippie bs. Look at the failure of linux, *bsd, gnu, etc.
Let's see:
I can't record the concert myself for later listening.
I can't take so much as a photograph so show my friends how great my seat was or any other purpose.
I can't buy a sanctioned recording of the concert.
I can't bring in a bottle of water or a crumb of food from outside.
Is Clear Channel also working on inventing that flashy thing from Men in Black, so after the show is over they can wipe the very memory of it from the brains of the concertgoers?
>seeing how far I get :)
Have a few beers beforehand, you should be able to get six feet or more!!
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Maybe they just want him to clear his throat before singing it again...
--RJ
You're fired.
Sincerely,
Your boss at ClearChannel
PS: Thanks for the link. The RIAA has been contacted and that site will be shut down soon.
how about a 1 second buffer in the recorder, then it is no longer "as it happens" instead it is "1 second behind what is happening"
Snowden and Manning are heroes.