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Artist Not Allowed To Stream His Own Music
the_arrow writes "Scottish artist Edwyn Collins wanted to stream one of his own songs on MySpace, but it seems that copyright misunderstandings make him unable to do so. According to the article, 'Management for the former Orange Juice frontman have been unable to convince the website that they own the rights to A Girl Like You, despite the fact that they, er, do.' Collins said, 'I found a nice lawyer guy at Warners, very apologetic, promised to get it sorted, but all these months later it isn't.' His wife added, 'MySpace are not equipped to deal with the notion that anyone other than a major [label] can claim a copyright.'"
Whats a "myspace"?
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This is MY galaxy...go find your OWN!
Sorry, I was thinking of FaceBook. God, I hate being wrong.
The cost of that cleanup, of course, will be borne by taxpayers, not industry.
I must disagree with you. Corporations have always been persons. The word incorporate implies that. A person is merely a legal entity. If your neighbor's dog bites you, you can't sue your neighbor's dog, because the dog's not a person. You have to sue your neighbor.
Personhood is what obliges corporations to obey the law and by extension why they have rights.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
Seems to me that if you don't like MySpace, you can always just dump it, and tell everybody why.
And the five people that visit your site will find that it's having issues because you didn't pay your hosting bill, or went over bandwidth, or since you don't know jack about admin'ing a website just plain doesn't work right, and they'll go back to MySpace where things are familiar, and everybody else is going.
It's not a matter of whining about their policy. The problem is that they have one policy towards large companies with powerful lawyers, and a different "fuck you" policy towards everyone else, but still claim to only have one policy for everybody.
This is why MyGaySpace has no space. just check my homeboy page http://www.fluxradio.org/ everything is private. I stream when I want to and so do other artists, DJ's and producers. I use Icecast http://www.icecast.org/ Netbsd, Debian and FreeBSD servers, set up round robin DNS so I can avoid this bullshit. I have servers in different countries that load balance and stream from Canada. Where getting sued for playing some music is bit of a problem for authorities. OVH networks provide a juicey connection as well. Why do you need myspace or any of these other moron sites to get music out? If one has done their homework, you just do not need myspace, twitter, facebook, youtube, beebo and the rest of the other sites jumping on the Bandwagon for fame and fortune. Tune of the day - Tangerine Dream "stratosfear"
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