Comments on: Deep Purple vs Themselves

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:54:28 +0000

Cue the “in Soviet Russia” jokes…

By: surfer

surfer — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:36:33 +0000

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

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:24:33 +0000

“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.

By: Henry Emrich

Henry Emrich — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:41:08 +0000

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”.

By: vato

vato — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:19:06 +0000

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.

By: Maroan

Maroan — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:55:41 +0000

Lol Kafka hasnt written in vain!

By: Me

Me — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:07:46 +0000

its all about the Benjamins?

By: thewilmerx

thewilmerx — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:22:11 +0000

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..

By: Devil's Advocate

Devil's Advocate — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:01:02 +0000

So, does this mean that Deep Purple will have to appear as both defendents and plaintiffs in some future trial??
LMAO!