Re: [microsound] Latest on jetgroove

[precursor <precursor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 10/11/04 5:47 PM, derek holzer at derek@xxxxxxx wrote:

> According to a related Register article, you might just be lucky that
> Jetgroove [apparently a Russian site] seems to comply with requests to
> remove content.
> 
> from: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/05/russian_mp3_site/
> 
>> ...currently there is an exemption under existing Russian copyright
>> legislation (Article 39 for the aficionados) allowing phonograms to be
>> performed publicly without the authorisation of the copyright owner for
>> broadcasting and cable transmission. The Internet could be deemed to fall
>> under this exemption. A similar argument can be applied to copies in the
>> cache memory of computers.
>> 
>> So as IFPI Russia's legal adviser, Vladimir Dragunov, concedes: "Because of
>> these loopholes we don't have much chance of succeeding if we attack these
>> companies who are using music files on the Internet under current Russian
>> laws."
> 
> You gotta hand it to our Russian brothers and sisters for showing us so
> quickly what unbridled, unregulated, straight-up capitalism really looks
> like ;-)
> 
> d.


ill drink to that!!! :-)


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