German Copyright Group To Collect From Creative Commons Event

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday November 13, 2011 @10:16PM from the pay-up dept.

bs0d3 writes "In Leipzig, Germany, an 8 hour music/dance party event was organized to play nothing but creative commons music the entire time. A German copyright group called GEMA told the organizers that to be certain that no rights were infringed, it would need a list of all artists including their full names, place of residency and date of birth. After the event GEMA sent an invoice for 200 euros. They claim that behind pseudonyms some of their artists may be hidden and produce things that they would not earn anything from. According to German law, you are required to prove that an artist is not with GEMA. So even though GEMA probably does not have rights to any of the music, they are not required to prove that they do."

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Re:Greetings Slashdot by Pieroxy · 2011-11-13 23:22 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Oh my! And I don't have mod points...
MOD PARENT FUNNY, not Offtopic !

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Re:At this point by Joce640k · 2011-11-14 00:06 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I thought "Democracy" was just a word George Bush liked the sound of and said as often as possible (every other sentence out of his mouth had "Democracy" in it somewhere).

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Re:At this point by Tsingi · 2011-11-14 01:10 · Score: -1, Offtopic

The USA is both a republic and a democracy..
Wrong.
US political parties in no way represent the people, they represent what elected them, corporate money. The US is a fascist state controlled by corporate money.
In what way is the US a democracy? Or even a republic?