Re: [microsound] copyright or wrong?

[devslashnull <dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

ugh. i give up. beating dead horse.

everyone seems to miss my point.

spinning records at a club (performing) is legal (DJ's are not 
responsible for ASCAP/BMI fees etc, Club-Owners are) and the RIAA have 
no provence over that activity. It's only when it gets recorded. They 
are storming indie record stores because of mixtapes... ie. recordings. 
The blog entry about what happened in Australia also has to do with 
"recordings" not the actual live performances.

I was merely making that distinction, which had been muddied in the 
discussion.


On Wednesday, February 4, 2004, at 11:03 AM, tobias c. van Veen wrote:

>> I'd like to check out Lessig's book. To your point about the RIAA and
>> club-owners... what can the RIAA do? I mean what legal action could
>> they possibly take? Club owners are not violating any copyrights, are
>> they? Performance rights perhaps, but those are administered by ASCAP,
>> BMI, SESAC, etc.
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> Well, as Kim posted, right now, they are storming indie record stores,
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> http://www.quadrantcrossing.org/blog/C1692035385/E1624771284/index.html
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> There's also this shit going down in Australia ..
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> http://www.quadrantcrossing.org/blog/C1078271594/E450204067/index.html
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> http://www.quadrantcrossing.org/blog/C1850481384/E1069908731/index.html
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> Yup. Blogtime.
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