First of all the ARIA doesn't represent or pay royalties to most of the Electronica artists that club DJ's play. So why should the DJ's pay them royalties?
The ARIA should have to prove that the DJ's are playing artists that they represent. I would recommend that all makers of Club style music register with and demand royalties from the ARIA.
Secondly most of the club DJ's I know download/swap their music as MP3's anyway. They don't format shift and they don't buy music.
As a maker of club music you want the DJ's to be playing your music, much like commercial music makers need radio.
I agree that these fees should come under the public performance fees and be payable by the venue, as long as said fees are actually being distributed to the artists whose music is being played.
Chances are that most of those 250,000 phones are infact unlocked and in use on other cellular networks... I unlocked about 10 of them and my mates in New Zealand are all using them... I know heaps of other people that unlocked quite a few. Some of us just really wanted to use iPhones now and not wait for apples lawyers to catch up with their products. The problem with the iPhone/Apple is really their change of stance from supporters of hactivism to supporters of big brother tactics.
Us Kiwis had to wait till the end of 2006 for our iTunes store... does Apple really think we are going to wait till 2012 for our iPhone/Telecom $$$ a month plan?
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First of all the ARIA doesn't represent or pay royalties to most of the Electronica artists that club DJ's play. So why should the DJ's pay them royalties? The ARIA should have to prove that the DJ's are playing artists that they represent. I would recommend that all makers of Club style music register with and demand royalties from the ARIA. Secondly most of the club DJ's I know download/swap their music as MP3's anyway. They don't format shift and they don't buy music. As a maker of club music you want the DJ's to be playing your music, much like commercial music makers need radio. I agree that these fees should come under the public performance fees and be payable by the venue, as long as said fees are actually being distributed to the artists whose music is being played.
Us Kiwis had to wait till the end of 2006 for our iTunes store... does Apple really think we are going to wait till 2012 for our iPhone/Telecom $$$ a month plan?