“Ylen TV-uutisten mukaan esimerkiksi laittomasti kopioidun äänilevyn tuonti maahan olisi vastaisuudessa laitonta. […] Laki on tiukentamassa tekijänoikeuslakia myös nettipiratismissa. Piraattilevyjen kopiointi omaan käyttöön muuttuu laittomaksi. Samalla ollaan tiukentamassa myös laillisten [ostajien] oikeuksia. Esimerkiksi laillisesti ostetun CD-levyn kopiosuojausta ei saisi enää murtaa, vaikka levyn ostaja haluaisi siirtää musiikin toisentyyppiseen, MP3-soittimeen.”
Levy-yhtiöt tarjoavat kestitystä radioille
“Levy-yhtiöt yrittävät kosiskella radion musiikkiohjelmista päättäviä mm. kalliilla konserttimatkoilla saadakseen mahdollisimman paljon soittoaikaa omille levyilleen. […]
Levy-yhtiöt käyvät viikottain esittelemässä kanavien musiikkipäälliköille uusimpia julkaisujaan saadakseen ne soittolistoille. Yhdysvalloissa nousi kesällä kohu, kun kävi ilmi että yksi yhtiöistä lahjoi listojen kokoajia.
Kulttuuriuutisten tekemä puhelinkierros kotimaisille musiikkipäälliköille paljasti, että Suomessakin heille on tarjolla muutakin kuin levy.”
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A User's Guide to DRM in Online Music
“There is an increasing variety of options for purchasing music online, but also a growing thicket of confusing usage restrictions. You may be getting much less than the services promise. […] In […] this brave new world of “authorized music services,” law-abiding music fans often get less for their money than they did in the old world of CDs (or at least, the world before record companies started crippling CDs with DRM, too). Unfortunately, in an effort to attract customers, these music services try to obscure the restrictions they impose on you with clever marketing.”
Ketkäs ne rikkovatkaan niitä tekijänoikeuksia?
“Laulaja Eija Kantola voitti lopulta pitkään vatvotun varhaistuotantoaan koskeneen oikeusriidan VL-Musiikki Oy:ta vastaan. Korkein oikeus katsoi levy-yhtiön loukanneen Kantolan oikeuksia, kun se markkinoi Kantolan varhaista Samppanjaruusu-äänitettä laulajan uudella taiteilijanimellä.”
Creativen Zen Neeon-soittimissa mato mukana
“Noin 3700 [viime kuun lopulla toimitetusta] kannettavasta [Zen Neeon -]soittimesta löytynyt W32.Wullik.B@mm -mato on päässyt kapasiteetiltaan viiden gigatavun laitteisiin pakkausvaiheessa, vahvistaa Creative Technology Ltd.”
MikroPC.net via Juha
UK ISP deal with Sony-BMG allows subscribers to share their music
“UK ISP Secures License to Share” by Anthony Patarini:
Cory Doctorow over at Boing Boing claims (don’t worry, we believe him) that MSP, a new British ISP, “has secured a license from Sony that allows its customers to legally share any song in the Sony-BMG catalog with any other PlayLouder MSP customer, and to download these tracks from any ISP customer in the entire world.”
Apparently, PlayLouder MSP DSL costs about the same as other DSL offerings in the UK, but subscribers will gain the ability to legally download any music which Sony-BMG holds the copyright to (including “out of print” tracks), to share any of that music with other PlayLouder MSP subscribers, to do so using any file format at any bitrate and using any software. The music can originate from anywhere – P2P, CD, radio recording, etc. MSP is also in talks with several indy labels in an effort negotiate the same deal with them as well.
The system does have its drawbacks, however. As you’ve read, subscribers can only share with other subscribers, and on top of that MSP will be analyzing traffic to try to determine how many Sony-BMG songs are being shared (though this is, according to MSP, only to determine how much they must pay Sony-BMG). Using this technology, they will be actively blocking recognized songs from leaving their network, while allowing unrecognized files to flow like normal.
Although this setup isn’t perfect, it’s certainly the “best thing to happen to the copyfight” in a long time. As Cory points out, this is a lot like the Voluntary Collective Licensing system the EFF has been working towards for years. I personally don’t think that you should need a license to share music non-commercially, so I don’t think that this type of system should even be necessary, but it is certainly a step in the right direction. Hopefully we’ll be seeing many more deals like this in the future.
For those interested, PlayLouder MSP is set to launch at the end of September.
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"EU online music deal closer"
“Anyone interested in offering paid-for downloads currently has to deal with 16 different licensing bodies in the EU. […] Proposals for an EU-wide licensing system for online music were first put forward by the European Commission, the EU’s executive body. The Commission has threatened to sue the music industry on competition grounds if national bodies did not change the way they enforced online copyright restrictions. […] Now the Dutch music copyright agency BUMA, and the Belgian agency SABAM, have said that they will not enforce the so-called “economic residency” clause in the case of online music.”
Musicians Try to Join ITunes in Japan
“Japanese musicians under contract with Sony and other labels that haven’t joined Apple’s iTunes Music Store are starting to defy their recording companies and trying to get their music on the popular download service launched last week in Japan.
At least one artist has already gone against his label to offer his songs on iTunes. And a major agency that manages Japanese musicians said Wednesday it was interested in a possible deal with Apple Computer Inc., regardless of the recording companies’ positions. ”
Pay-for-play costs Sony BMG $10m
“Sony BMG, the world’s second-biggest record label, has agreed to pay $10m (£5.7m) and stop paying radio station employees to play its artists’ songs. The settlement follows an investigation into “pay for play” practices in the music industry, conducted by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. The probe found “air time is often determined by undisclosed payoffs,” said Mr Spitzer on Monday.”
And they blame P2P users for not buying the crap they try to cram down our throats like this… Jesus!