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BBC In Trouble Over Free Music

Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 12, 2005 @05:01PM from the generate-money-from-spinning-corpses dept.

Take a Byte Out of Crime writes "According to this article, British classical labels are claiming that the BBC giving away the these symphonies, which were performed by the BBC Orchestra for free, constitutes unfair government competition. Apparently all free music really is illegal these days, or soon will be, public domain be damned."

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What? by bucky0 · 2005-07-12 18:23 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Maybe it's just late, but I can't figure out how to actually download anything, for the life of me. I keep coming back to schedules for when things were shown :(

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Re:Lets ask Beethoven by aslate · 2005-07-12 20:46 · Score: 1, Offtopic

I thought that the BBC collected the fee themselves, they include the costings for collection on how they spend the fees.

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Re:Lets ask Beethoven by The+Tyrant · 2005-07-12 21:43 · Score: 0, Offtopic

The BBC is independant, because the public would not tolerate government interference with it. Managers may sweat at the prospect of being punched in the wallet, but governments sweat at the sight of people out in the streets en mass.