Anti-piracy Group Fined For Using Song Without Permission

zacharye writes "Oh, the irony. A musicians' rights group in the Netherlands was fined this week for stealing music from a client, using it without his permission and failing to pay royalties. Music royalty collection agency Buma/Stemra approached Dutch musician Melchior Rietveldt in 2006 and asked him to create a composition that would be used in an anti-piracy advertisement, which the group said would be shown exclusively at a local film festival. One year later, Rietveldt purchased a Harry Potter DVD only to find that his piece was being used on DVDs around the world without his permission..."

Comments

Re:Another case of "do what i say, and not what I

[BitHive]

Thank you, the record will benefit immensely from your important ideas about law and government.

Re:Another case of "do what i say, and not what I

[starworks5]

Your welcome, but they were not originally my ideas, i copied them from others.
We all stand on the shoulders of giants ;-)

Re:Another case of "do what i say, and not what I

[wonkey_monkey]

We all stand on the shoulders of giants ;-)

Not me. I stand on a stack of midgets.

1 gazzillion Euros

[houghi]

That is what they should pay.

Take their own calculation and use that on how much he should get. So how many billion copies have been sold? Those were clearly missed sales for him. Then add the number of illegal downloads that they made possible by putting it on those DVDs and you get to a gazillion pretty quickly.