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Digital DJs Unaware of Copyright Law
CookieJago74 writes "The BBC reports that if you're a DJ, playing your digital copies of files off a laptop or mp3 player is illegal. The UK royalty collection agency, PPL, demands that such DJs pay £200 for a license in order to do so. From the article, 'Many DJs are still unwittingly breaking the law by playing unlicensed digital copies of tracks months after a new permit scheme began, the BBC has found. This includes legally-purchased downloads, which are normally licensed only for personal use, as well as copies of tracks from records or CDs.'"
The PPL is full of PP. They can go to L.
Well, maybe not, but the pun was too good to pass up.
And there goes the last DJ
Who plays what he wants to play
And says what he wants to say
Hey hey hey
There goes your freedom of choice
There goes the last human voice
There goes the last DJ...
That's from Tom Petty's "The Last DJ," totally from memory. Hope me remembering the words to the song doesn't break someone's copyright.
"A Musician who just spins tracks together". That's a musician? Wow. So, they "sample" parts of songs, and mix them all together. Seems like we need to reclassify them as a "mixer" rather than a musician. I think putting these people in with musicians is belittling to musicians. Seriously.
And don't get me started on that hair. You call that a haircut? Back in my day we'd have kicked his scrawny ass across town just for laughs. And those clothes, don't tell me their mothers let them out of the house like that. Where I came from we'd have something i dont know what were we talking about?
Hell no, for me it's strictly Glenn Miller playing The Way Things Used To Be.
Literalism isn't a form of humor, it's you being irritating.