The short answer seems to be 'no'. But this post, written to MP3 and then erased by them, is interesting. The writer is Anthony Chidiac: I shortened it a bit to fit in the LJ limit. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi everyone, I am the CEO of a good sized record label and technology company here in Australia. I really like what MP3 is doing with MP3 delivery. Australia has recently changed copyright laws in relation to parallel importation, but the law pertaining to "copying" any of an artists works, whether it be on 24 track digital, cassette, or tin can telephone system, is still, and will always be ILLEGAL. Period! The purchaser of the recorded works, whether it be on CD, MiniDisc, Cassette, or Vinyl, only owns the MECHANISM in which the recording is recorded onto, not the recording itself!!! A consumer actually leases the right to play the recording using the delivery format in which they paid for. An end consumer does not have the right to copy it to another mechanism, period! Nor do they have the right to broadcast it. Its written on every CD you pick up, if you don't like these conditions that artists lease you the right to play their works, return the damn CD for a full refund. Us idiots at record companies pay a "mechanical" right to copy it onto that CD you play, and publishers make a very big load of money by enforcing that! They have a right to, in any country in the world, including china! Do you think photocopying a song sheet and giving it to your friend(s)is fair to the person who originally wrote the song?
Are you the type that walks into a movie theater with a video camera to tape the movie to watch at home? Sure, you bought the ticket to see the movie, so you own the movie, right?
Do you take digital pictures of a painting in an art gallery and print it out, frame it, and hang one in your bedroom and one in your office because you like to look at it all day long? You bought the ticket to get into the art gallery, so you own the paintings in it, don't you?
Well, if you do think that way you're an idiot and a thief. Don't you think it applies for musical works as well?
All I ask you is for fairness in that if I pay the artist for the right to copy his/her/its works, so should you. Shame Shame Shame MP3. Why don't you just stick to delivering new stuff from some great new artists and re-inventing the way that new artists are born, and not encouraging your consumers to illicitly copy works onto your hard disks for convenience purposes, then charge for advertising space on the web, earning a bucketload of money from having the product on your hard disks. You are not a library, just a fantastic way in which some very very unknown artists around the world are discovered by industry types like myself, who then invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in marketing hype to make sure they get all the credit they need to make a distinctive mark on the world.
MP3, my advice to you is to stick to MP3 and CD delivery and not to engage in illegal activites which hurt the artist more than fat slobs like myself.
Regards, Anthony Chidiac CEO Opulent Music Entertainment Melbourne, Australia info@opulentmmg.c
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Date: 2002-07-05 06:29 pm (UTC)-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hi everyone, I am the CEO of a good sized record label and technology company here in Australia.
I really like what MP3 is doing with MP3 delivery. Australia has recently changed copyright laws in relation to
parallel importation, but the law pertaining to "copying" any of an artists works, whether it be on 24 track digital,
cassette, or tin can telephone system, is still, and will always be ILLEGAL. Period! The purchaser of the recorded
works, whether it be on CD, MiniDisc, Cassette, or Vinyl, only owns the MECHANISM in which the recording is
recorded onto, not the recording itself!!! A consumer actually leases the right to play the recording using the
delivery format in which they paid for. An end consumer does not have the right to copy it to another mechanism,
period! Nor do they have the right to broadcast it. Its written on every CD you pick up, if you don't like these
conditions that artists lease you the right to play their works, return the damn CD for a full refund. Us idiots at
record companies pay a "mechanical" right to copy it onto that CD you play, and publishers make a very big load
of money by enforcing that! They have a right to, in any country in the world, including china!
Do you think photocopying a song sheet and giving it to your friend(s)is fair to the person who originally wrote
the song?
Are you the type that walks into a movie theater with a video camera to tape the movie to watch at home? Sure,
you bought the ticket to see the movie, so you own the movie, right?
Do you take digital pictures of a painting in an art gallery and print it out, frame it, and hang one in your bedroom
and one in your office because you like to look at it all day long? You bought the ticket to get into the art gallery,
so you own the paintings in it, don't you?
Well, if you do think that way you're an idiot and a thief. Don't you think it applies for musical works as well?
All I ask you is for fairness in that if I pay the artist for the right to copy his/her/its
works, so should you. Shame Shame Shame MP3. Why don't you just stick to delivering new stuff from some
great new artists and re-inventing the way that new artists are born, and not encouraging your consumers to
illicitly copy works onto your hard disks for convenience purposes, then charge for advertising space on the web,
earning a bucketload of money from having the product on your hard disks. You are not a library, just a fantastic
way in which some very very unknown artists around the world are discovered by industry types like myself, who
then invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in marketing hype to make sure they get all the credit they need to
make a distinctive mark on the world.
MP3, my advice to you is to stick to MP3 and CD delivery and not to engage in illegal activites which hurt the
artist more than fat slobs like myself.
Regards,
Anthony Chidiac
CEO
Opulent Music Entertainment
Melbourne, Australia
info@opulentmmg.c