Big Music vampires lust after keep fit crowd
p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- Marc, the guy who compiles the p2pnet World Headlines, has a brilliant idea for a new music business model
“Maybe we should start a new group?” he suggests, going on »»»
We’d call it Listeners of Good Music.
We’d charge SOCAN, the CRIA and the Neighbouring Rights Collective of Canada a big fat fee every time we hear music we don’t like.
We’d launch a website and get people to sign off on songs that shouldn’t be paid for, or ever heard again in public.
Then we’d back-charge them for collecting fees on the music no one wants to hear!
We’d then re-distribute the money collected to people suffering from corporate music trash.
Looks good. Sign p2pnet up! 
His idea was sparked by the coming reality that all you people who start the day not with a cup (or 10) of coffee, but with a strenuous workout in the gym, could soon have to pay more for the privilege.
And it’d be all thanks to the ever-increasing ripples of rampant greed generated by Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music.
p2pnet posted recently »»»
SOCAN is short for Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada, and its doughty `investigators` scour school cafeterias, dentist surgeries, hair-dressing salons, and so on, searching for transgressions of the Corporate Music Code of Conduct under which every time someone plays a tune somewhere, money is owed.
But it isn`t alone. There`s another Big Music vampire — The Neighbouring Rights Collective of Canada.
Whoa! Yup. No lie.
Now, “The group wants to start charging gyms a new copyright fee for blasting music during workout sessions,” says the CBC, going on »»»
“President Ian MacKay is targeting spin classes and aerobics sessions.
“Certainly studies that we’ve seen have shown that music is pretty important. And it goes without saying that a fitness class without music is going to be pretty flat,” said MacKay.
Fitness centres already fork out to SOCAN.
The new rip-off, “would be on top of that and would go to performing artists and record companies,” says the story.
“Sheez,” Marc says, adding:
“They want money for all this (and it seems they are adding to this list almost yearly). Soon I won’t be able to blow my nose w/o paying them a fee.”
http://www.nrcc.ca/english/tarFAQ.htm
NRCC has filed proposed tariffs with the Copyright Board, Canada as follows:
Tariff No. 1A Commercial Radio 2010-2011
http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/tariffs-tarifs/proposed-proposes/2009/g1-14326-2.pdf
Supplement to the Canada Gazette June 27, 2009
Tariff No. 1C Radio of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
2006-2007
http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/tariffs-tarifs/proposed-proposes/2002/20020511-m-b.pdf 2008
http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/tariffs-tarifs/proposed-proposes/2007/20070602-m-b.pdf 2009
http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/tariffs-tarifs/proposed-proposes/2008/20080531-m-b.pdf
2010-2011
http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/tariffs-tarifs/proposed-proposes/2007/20070602-m-b.pdf
Supplement to the Canada Gazette, Various Dates
Pay Audio Services 2009-2011
http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/tariffs-tarifs/proposed-proposes/2006/20060506-m-b.pdf
Supplement to the Canada Gazette, May 6, 2006
Tariff No. 3 Use and Supply of Background Music 2010
http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/tariffs-tarifs/proposed-proposes/2009/g1-14326-2.pdf
Supplement to the /Canada Gazette/, June 27, 2009
Tariff No. 5 Live Events 2008-2012
http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/tariffs-tarifs/proposed-proposes/2007/20070602-m-b.pdf
Supplement to the /Canada Gazette/, June 2, 2007
Tariff No. 6 Dance and Fitness 2008-2012
http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/tariffs-tarifs/proposed-proposes/2007/20070602-m-b.pdf
Supplement to the /Canada Gazette/, June 2, 2007
A copy of Tariff 6 FAQs can be found here
http://www.nrcc.ca/english/docs/T6%20FAQ%20LH%20%28final%29.pdf
Tariff No. 7 Motion Picture Theatres 2009-2011
http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/tariffs-tarifs/proposed-proposes/2008/20080531-m-b.pdf
Supplement to the /Canada Gazette/, May 31, 2008
Tariff No. 8 Simulcasting and Webcasting 2009-2012
http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/tariffs-tarifs/proposed-proposes/2008/20080531-m-b.pdf
Supplement to the /Canada Gazette/, May 31, 2008
Tariff No. 9 Commercial Television 2009-2013
http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/tariffs-tarifs/proposed-proposes/2008/20080531-m-b.pdf
Supplement to the /Canada Gazette/, May 31, 2008
Where are you, Buffy the Vampire Slayer ?!
Canada needs you !!!
(Cheers, Marc)
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
p2pnet – Some clubs, bars, could go silent in Canada, July 22, 2009
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August 31st, 2009 at 11:42 am
“Soon I wonât be able to blow my nose w/o paying them a fee.â
I’ve called their president, he’ll be buy to see if your snot is musical and asses you a fee.
August 31st, 2009 at 12:35 pm
A great idea actually. If you get a rotten fish, you are entitled to a compensation. Same should be with crap filling the _public_ airwaves.