From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V8 #10 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Sender: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Monday, January 27 2003 Volume 08 : Number 010 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Digital Rights [Lipman_Larry ] Re: Digital Rights [jp ] Re: Royalties; Digital Rights ["Mike Nice" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 00:20:12 -0600 From: Lipman_Larry Subject: Digital Rights I also meant to share... We need to be wary of a growing trend to "license" product rather than sell it. In the old days, you bought (owned) a CD and had a non-exclusive right to use the material on it as long as you kept to copyright restrictions. If music is licensed like software, rather than sold, a lot of the legal protections we enjoy for sold media evaporate. LL ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 07:41:24 -0800 From: jp Subject: Re: Digital Rights At 12:20 AM 1/26/03 -0600, you wrote: > >I also meant to share... >We need to be wary of a growing trend to "license" product rather than >sell it. In the old days, you bought (owned) a CD and had a >non-exclusive right to use the material on it as long as you kept to >copyright restrictions. If music is licensed like software, rather than >sold, a lot of the legal protections we enjoy for sold media evaporate. > LL > As I understand it, and correct me if I'm wrong, Larry, this means we could buy a recording and make a copy for personal use. For instance, in the ancient days we'd buy a record and make a cassette copy to play in the car. Now we can buy a Cd and make mp3 copies for our computers or ipods. If licensed, we lose the right to copy at all, and that's the trend. I'm always amazed at the shortsightedness of the media companies. Disney and others sued Sony in the late 70s/early 80s wanting a license fee on every blank home videotape sold. The media claimed that ALL tapes would be used to record copyrighted material in violation of copyright laws. The US Supreme Court disagreed, and the media companies found they had a huge market in home videos that they never imagined existed. I believe we're on the verge of something big happening - I'm not smart enough to know what. But the internet has the ability to bypass big media companies. Suppose, for instance, we get a message from this list one day saying that Basia was unable to find a label for her new album - and the message goes on to say we can go to a certain web page and download individual songs as mp3s or buy a full CD directly, all using PayPal or some similar service. Is word of the keyboard on the Internet sufficient promotion to make something profitable? I don't know but speculation is interesting. un abrazo, juan ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 08:15:25 -0500 From: "Mike Nice" Subject: Re: Royalties; Digital Rights I'm hoping a superstar in J-Lo's class is able to break out of the tightly controlled media conglomerate and market themselves entirely via the internet. The only catch is that I think many radio stations are prohibited from playing anything except as approved by "corporate", and promoted by big labels. So even if the public found a superstar on the internet and barraged their local station to play the music, it might not happen. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lipman_Larry" To: Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 11:29 AM Subject: Royalties; Digital Rights > Also consider... > Today, we find ourselves in a cycle where the cost to launch a pop artist > through traditional channels is extreme (Simon says a couple of million), > there is excessive theft of product through the internet (Napster-esque), > labels therefore break fewer new acts and are reluctant to take any > chances, the public is frustrated and unserved, and therefore goes > elsewhere (internet) for source material, this results in fewer sales, > and the circle begins again. All I can tell you is...I am in the ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V8 #10 **************************