Re: [microsound] ideal copyright

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To both points:

Individual artists cannot be members of RIAA.

To be "protected" by RIAA (or more accurately Sound Exchange in the 
case of webcasting royalty disputes) one has to be either a member of 
Sound Exchange or to have designated them as ones "Authorized 
Representative".

I can play my own music on the internet, and sell it however I please 
without a license. If my music has been licensed by some label, then 
they own the copyright of that recording (depending on the contract of 
course), and if they are members of either the RIAA or Sound Exchange, 
then thats a whole different thing.




On Tuesday, February 3, 2004, at 10:41 PM, Rob wrote:

>
>> >No one forces an artist to enforce the copyright of their own works, 
>> so if you don't care, then it doesn't matter.


EEEK not true!  That's the RIAA miracle, take webcasting - the RIAA has 
the power to enforce even if you played only non-RIAA label's music!  
Yep, that's right, you don't even have to belong to the RIAA to 
"benefit" from their services.
>
> And to add to that point again, individual artists and labels who do 
> belong to the RIAA get no say in who copyright is enforced against!  
> Now do you really think any of the artists concerned were all for 
> suing a 12 year old.  By representing 90% of the market the RIAA is a 
> monster and far too powerful for any of its artists to influence!
> Rob
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