Deep Purple vs Themselves
p2pnet news view Music:- How’s this for richest of the rich irony?
Deep Purple were performing in Rostov-on-Don in Russia a little under a year ago. Then, after the show, they heard from NGO, the Russian Authors’ Society, an organisation which looks suspiciously similar to SOCAN, the Canadian music rip-off organisation.
Because, says the Russian collection agency as cited in Russia Today, Ian Gillan, Ian Paice and Roger Glover, “should have obtained a license” from NGO for the, “public performance of any of their songs”.
It, “represents the rights of foreign performers in Russia even without these performers giving the NGO permission to represent them,” says the story.
ASCAP, anyone?
(Cheers, Marshall)
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July 3rd, 2009 at 4:01 pm
So, does this mean that Deep Purple will have to appear as both defendents and plaintiffs in some future trial??
LMAO!
July 3rd, 2009 at 4:22 pm
artists have to get a license to perform their own songs to make sure they get paid that their songs are being performed? hmmm sounds more like the collection agencies are trying to find new ways to get money themselves..
July 3rd, 2009 at 5:07 pm
its all about the Benjamins?
July 3rd, 2009 at 7:55 pm
Lol Kafka hasnt written in vain!
July 3rd, 2009 at 9:19 pm
Really suspicious. collecting agencies indeed have to collect your public play royalties, but you must get registered to the collecting agency first, then they get a percentage of your money.
July 4th, 2009 at 1:41 am
Heh — y’know, I actually used to think the term “MAFIAA” was an exaggeration, but nowadays, not so much:
1. The p2p lawsuits are nothing but the classic “shakedown” — give ‘em the money, or they fuck you up.
2. The “performance rights” organizations are the classic “protection racket”: offer to “protect” somebody from a bad outcome for a fee, and if they decline, make the bad outcome happen. The Regular Mafia would often deliberately start bar-fights to demonstrate how bar owners were “at risk” for vandalism and bar-fights, and if the guy didn’t put up the money, they’d smash up the place.
Yeah, MAFIAA is a great description of the existing “industry”.
July 4th, 2009 at 9:24 am
“performance rights” organizations are the classic “protection racket”
What more proof that if you get a PRO (ASACP, SOCAN, GEMA, NGO…) license you have no idea what songs are licensed as no catalog is given with the license.
What can be performed is just a guessing game… or the licensee is paying simply to avoid a lawsuit from the licensing PRO… a wate of money because if the performed song is “independent” (not assigned to a PRO) the lawsuit can still follow.
We are still looking for the morons who designed the copyright laws.
July 5th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
absolute epitome of corruption, am I the only one that sees this? By natural right, the ‘intellectual property’ of a creator is his/hers, THEN licensed for use. To think the royalty collection agencies are suing for 3k/song (amounts of which this band will NEVER see) is absolute insanity, am I crazy?
‘You cant play your won music unless you pay us our cut’ ..
this is what copyright has become, pure extortionist outright greed, laughable, and proudly disrespected.
‘We are still looking for the morons who designed the copyright laws.’
they should be tortured, waterboarded, sodomized, drawn and quartered, tortured some more, did I say sodomized?
stw
July 5th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Cue the “in Soviet Russia” jokes…