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p2pnet news | Music:- Another corporate voice has joined the growing number of music industry heavies who are admitting they’ve been wrong about the way they’ve been handling the online music phenomenon.
“Music was a big focus of day one of the Mesh Conference” with a panel that included the CRIA’s Graham Henderson (right), David Usher, and Arts & Crafts Kieran Roy, blogs Ottawa law professor Michael Geist, one of the keynote speakers.
“Interestingly, the word ‘copyright’ was never mentioned,” he says, going on the Kaplan keynote, “focused on the value of “experiencing” music over possessing the “artifact” and pointed to ways that artists can connect with their fan base”.
That is interesting given Kaplan works for Warner Bros Records, with Warner as one of the Big 4 labels who are currently disconnecting their own customers, labelling them criminals and thieves who “steal” copyrighted music files.
And Henderson, whose CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association of America) is at the moment trying to live down a massive PR disaster involving a supposed counterfeit CD raid in Winnipeg, admitted the corporate music industry “backed the wrong horse,” posts Geist.
Henderson also acknowledged Big 4 efforts to use DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) to control how customers use music they’d bought and paid for, “wasn’t a clever strategy”.
“Left unsaid,” Geist adds, “is that if the commercial strategy was a failure then why is the industry insistent on pursuing a legal reform strategy that is based on what it admits was a mistake?”
Why indeed?
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Michael Geist - Music at Mesh, May 21, 2008
massive PR disaster - Audiomaxxx.com King Raj on CRIA bust, May 14, 2008
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May 22nd, 2008 at 9:47 am
because they’re stupid and haven’t a clue?