Spanish rights group busts wedding
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Hmmm. Very strange!
The Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (Spanish General Society of Authors and Editors, aka SGAE) says it’s devoted to the, “management and defense of intellectual property rights” of members.
But there’s nothing in its statement which says anything about spying on weddings, or that it’s in any way associated with SOCAN.
To briefly digress, SOCAN is short for Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada, an organisation whose intrepid investigators tirelessly prowl small-town bars, dentist surgeries, hair-dressing salons, school cafeterias, and the like, searching for copyright transgressions on behalf of Canada’s starving musicians.
When it finds a case, it threatens the wicked transgressors with legal action unless they immediately cease and desist, or signup for ridiculous fees to enable them to continue playing the music.
Since itseems the SGAE gets up to the same kinds of tricks, one wonders if they share methods and techniques with each other.
Gathering evidence
“It could be any other wedding video,” says Times Online, going on, “the grinning couple dancing badly to hits from the Seventies surrounded by friends and family.
However, the video, “ended in a court date for the cameraman and a fine of â¬60,101 ($96,272 CAD) for his employers after it emerged that he was a private detective who had gatecrashed the reception to gather evidence against the owners of the venue,” says the story.
Employers, eh? You guessed it. The Spanish General Society of Authors and Editors (SGAE)
“The society suspected that the owners of La Doma restaurant, in San Juan de Aznal-farache, near Seville, had not paid royalties for the music that they were using for the reception,” says the story.
How could they !?!?!
The society was fined by the Spanish Data Protection Agency for “breaching the intimacy” of the couple at the wedding reception, but the is only now coming to light, “because the SGAE has stepped up its drive against venues it suspects of trying to avoid paying royalties,” says Times Online, adding:
“The SGAE allegedly used the same tactics against another venue hosting a wedding, in a case that is about to reach court. When the society prosecuted the Salón de Bodas, in El Vizir de Espartinas, Seville, it claimed that the video had been taken by one of the guests.”
copyright transgressions – SOCAN threatens p2pnet. Again, August 2m 2008
Times Online – Secret wedding video ruling is music to ears of privacy groups, December 15, 2008
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December 19th, 2008 at 2:43 am
Another generation including a future one sometime later on, have reached the point of not wanting any major label products with this action. Can’t say I blame them. Plus this couple will have friends as well whom they will make sure that know of these actions.
The majors are doing their best to drive all customers away from their product just as hard as they can go at it. Of course we all know by now the industry blames pirates as the cause.
As it is, I’ve been on boycott since sue’em all started. Not one penny goes towards them that I have any control over. I hope when it is all said and done, the alphabet groups that contribute to the black public relations eye, take their sponsors with them. That no one with sense will have anything to do with major music. There are not many products you can buy and wind up in a law suit over but here’s one that needs to go bankrupt.