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Vimeo Sued For Audio Infringement
USS_Natas writes "Capitol Records and other labels have sued Vimeo in federal court, charging that the site's emphasis on 'original works' only extends to videos, and that songs are widely used on Vimeo without a license. The plaintiffs hope to prove that Vimeo staffers know about the infringement, since they've been doing it themselves." NewTeeVee has a PDF of the court filing in a Scribd frame.
because if they can't make this stick, they're going to disappear.
Vimeo is in a perfect position to request that they DO DO.
Copyright infringement is one of those things that can actually rear up and byte the **AAs in the butt.
By claiming first amendment rights on the ENTIRE file, audio and video and written text of the actual content of the file, they can force the issue that the AA's are, in fact, stepping on each others territory and refuse to comply with their requests until the establishment of a proper rights infringement body.
By setting the MPAA lawyers on the RIAA lawyers, Vimeo can ask that the issue of content creation be settled once and for all in a comprehensive manner.
Since the RIAA and the MPAA are not entitled to settle the matter by themselves, they end up effectively negating each others arguments.
Now of course the difficulty of settling all of this means that the litigation will pend for years, and may very well see the establishment of an ÜberAA to oversee the FAIR distribution of royalties, but at least it i the end of the various AAs.
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As long as you don't try to own Steve Jobs' farting - his are inaudible.
You mean he's violating the copyright of John Cage?
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So you think they'd still be sued if everybody used freely-licensed music
Yes, because ASCAP will be able to dig up something non-free that was written in the past 95 years and happens to sound like the freely-licensed music, making the free license invalid. We could end up with another Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music on our hands.