Japanese harp player nailed
p2pnet.net News:- You’ll be relieved to know the Copyright Dogs are on the job.
They’ve had an incorrigible 73-year-old Japanese harmonica player arrested for the dastardly crime of playing Beatles tunes.
Masami Toyoda of Tokyo’s Nerima-ku was nailed, “on suspicion of violating the Copyright Law, police said,” according to the Mainichi Daily News, which goes on, “He has reportedly admitted to the allegations against him.”
Toyoda performed 33 The Beatles songs controlled by the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers, says the story.
“He allegedly performed the songs on the harmonica with a female pianist at the bar he operated between August and September this year.”
Nor is this the first time the elderly harp player had come to the JSACP’s attention.
“Officials said the society sought a provisional injunction against Toyoda in 2001 because he had repeatedly performed copyrighted songs in the past without permission, and the Tokyo District Court granted the injunction,” states the Mainichi Daily News, adding:
“The society filed a criminal complaint against him in September this year because he later kept playing copyrighted songs.”
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Mainichi Daily News - Elderly harmonica player arrested for performing copyrighted songs at bar, November 9, 2006
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November 10th, 2006 at 3:41 pm
Imagine there’s no Heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say that I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say that I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one
-John Lennon (1940-1980)
November 10th, 2006 at 8:04 pm
Hey “dreamer”. You are a Godless heathen intellectual property rights terrorist, a copyright thief, and a just plain bad person!!!!
November 10th, 2006 at 8:40 pm
Does this mean if i whistle a beatles tune walking down the street i will get nabbed?? The world has gone mad(der)!!
November 11th, 2006 at 10:17 am
Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers”Toyoda performed 33 The Beatles songs controlled by the …”
Sure, Toyoda was required to pay to get a so called blanket license from the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers so he would not be sued by that organization.
Assuming that the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers is like their homologues (ASCAP, etc.) throught the world….
Then Toyoda had to GUESS that The Beatles songs, the songs he wanted to perform, were in fact included in the license we was paying for.
Why GUESS? Because you don’t get an advance copy of a catalog (before paying for the license) or a copy after yo buy the license from the “performance societies” such as Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers.
It’s a guessing game.
November 11th, 2006 at 10:31 am
“Does this mean if i whistle a beatles tune walking down the street i will get nabbed??”
You better not. You see, “down the street” is a public place, and you are therfor violating the public performance clasue in the copyright law.
It is persons such as you who are devastating the music industry, after all why would anyone buy a RIAA record if you can listen to live music for free in the streets?
You are really just as bad as the blind musicians infringers criminals who play music in the sidewalk for a few coins, without a public performance license.
Just hope a RIAA boy scout is nowhere near you when you whislte in public.
February 12th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
So, if I perform a rather loud, bawdy and offtune version of “A Little Help From My Friends” in public, I’m somehow encouraging people NOT to buy the CD (that has more talented musicians singing the same song on it)? Hmm…interesting…
AND FAIL! Beatles are a (dominant) part of culture and copyright is a PRIVILEGE, not a right. I think this goes to show that the privilege is being abused, and thus all the Beatles albums need to be expedited to the public domain, to HELP SHARE OUR CULTURE!