Dead mandolinist sues YouTube
p2pnet.net news:- Dead mandolin player David ‘Dawg‘ Grisman has joined the crowd suing YouTube.
It’s a particularly interesting case because The Dead more or less encouraged people to record shows and make bootlegs.
Grisman and business partner Craig Miller, who run the San Rafael studio Acoustic Disc, say the case is about, “helping independent musicians whose music is distributed without their authorization” by YouTube owner Google, says Associated Press, going on:
“They say they deserve an unspecified amount of money from the hits – and advertising revenue – that that Google gets from their clips.”
Grisman was close friends with Grateful Dead guitarist and singer Jerry Garcia until his 1995 death, says the story, adding, “Grisman played on the Dead’s ‘American Beauty’ album, and the men collaborated on numerous projects.”
Last December Archive.org was ordered to take down more than 1,000 Grateful Dead soundboard recordings.
Also See:
Associated Press – Former Dead musician sues YouTube over unauthorized videos, May 15, 2007
take down – Grateful Dead back online, December 2, 2006
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May 16th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
False and misleading article.
1. There’s nothing “ironic” in the fact that Grisman would do this. Yes, the Dead allowed “tapers”, but there was ALWAYS a restriction imposed (if only an implicit one) — no commercial distribution, for example.)
The mechanism which allowed the Grateful Dead the opportunity to stipulate that restriction was — you guessed it — copyright.
2. Grisman has a point about the “smaller artists”. They should have a say over whether they want their stuff up on viral-video sites (which are, arguably, commercial enterprises backed by ad revenue and subscriptions.).
Youtube is NOT “noncommercial”, in the way that say, Internet Archive, is. There IS money changing hands, and at least a portion of that revenue is being generated as a result of unauthorized vids of smaller, “unsigned” artists. To ignore that fact, and essentially say “fuck ‘em”, while simultaneoulsy posturing as advocates for “creators” is …… let’s just say a tad sloppy.