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Sony Accused of Pirating Music In "The Interview"
the simurgh writes As the controversy surrounding Sony's handling of its hack, the movie The Interview and its aftermath continues, a singer is claiming that after failing to reach terms with Sony, the company put her music in the movie anyway. Yoon Mi-rae (real name Natasha Shanta Reid) is a U.S.-born hip hop and R&B singer who currently releases music on the Feel Ghood Music label. Sshe and her label claim that her track we learned that the track 'Pay Day' has been used without permission, legal procedure, or contracts.
Maybe she should have put a rootkit on her CD?
it got Yoda'd.
Political debates have me rolling my eyes so much I think I got optical whiplash. I should sue. - Foamy The Squirrel
define "copy"?
Is that a physical copy, like a DVD?
Or is it an imaginary copy, like a digital download, stream, air performance (where wetware memory is also by strict definition, a copy)?
The **AA have their own definition: they claim it is the potential wetware duplication, which is how many people will hear it and not pay for it? Because Sony didn't pay a licence to the artist, then it must follow by that logic that every single person who heard the music also didn't pay for it. Because Sony are the distributors, it's down to them to put right. On the balance of probabilities (this is a civil claim), the number of tickets sold must equal the number of unique individuals who "recorded" the music to their wet memories (heard it), hence that count should be the one used to enumerate the violations - notwithstanding and in fact ignoring the possibility which is not convenient that not everyone who bought a ticket will have actually gone on to watch the movie and some individuals might have seen it twice.
Political debates have me rolling my eyes so much I think I got optical whiplash. I should sue. - Foamy The Squirrel
Maybe she did, and that was how Sony got hacked...