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BBC In Trouble Over Free Music

Posted by timothy on 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."

6 of 651 comments (clear)

  1. first post is in trouble! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    slashdot be damned

  2. What? by bucky0 · · 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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    -Bucky
  3. cannot sell your own music ! by chrisranjana.com · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You can't sell your own music ! nice !

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    Chris ,
    Php Programmers.
  4. Re:Lets ask Beethoven by aslate · · Score: 1, Offtopic

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

    Licence Fee

  5. Re:Lets ask Beethoven by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes it is. The government controls the bbc purse strings. How could the bbc possibly be in any sense independent of the government. If the bbc doesn't tow the line, debates about the funding of the bbc pop up and the £459,000 a year director generals begin to sweat.

  6. Re:Lets ask Beethoven by The+Tyrant · · 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.