Comments on: Digital Data Exchange http://www.p2pnet.net/story/8714 p2pnet.net - reader powered Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:31:02 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/8714/comment-page-1#comment-40172 Reader's Write Tue, 09 May 2006 01:39:05 +0000 #comment-40172 Had a quick look at the site - don't you think you're hyping this just a bit? There appear to be different levels of membership. Evidently once the standards have been agreed then anyone can license them. Not much of a conspiracy theory there is there? Maybe I missed something. Keep up the good work though. Surely standards are to the benefit of everyone. Free the music yes! GangstaFX Had a quick look at the site – don’t you think you’re hyping this just a bit? There appear to be different levels of membership. Evidently once the standards have been agreed then anyone can license them. Not much of a conspiracy theory there is there? Maybe I missed something. Keep up the good work though. Surely standards are to the benefit of everyone. Free the music yes! GangstaFX

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/8714/comment-page-1#comment-40152 Reader's Write Mon, 08 May 2006 19:36:28 +0000 #comment-40152 "It's called the Digital Data Exchange (DDEX) and on board with the Big Four are "music rights" societies the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), the Harry Fox Agency, the MCPS-PRS Alliance Limited, Sociedad General de Autores y Editores, shortly to be joined by the French society SACEM; and music "service" providers Apple, Microsoft and RealNetworks. My scoop on these: Organizations that have managed to take away tha rights of artists and songwriter under the guise that these will be represented for their benefit. The fact is that artists and songwriters just fall into contract traps planned by the music publishing business who with their back room accounting and well placed lawyers and multi slicing of royalties take all the money and wind up owning all the rights. Enough said. “It’s called the Digital Data Exchange (DDEX) and on board with the Big Four are “music rights” societies the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), the Harry Fox Agency, the MCPS-PRS Alliance Limited, Sociedad General de Autores y Editores, shortly to be joined by the French society SACEM; and music “service” providers Apple, Microsoft and RealNetworks.

My scoop on these: Organizations that have managed to take away tha rights of artists and songwriter under the guise that these will be represented for their benefit. The fact is that artists and songwriters just fall into contract traps planned by the music publishing business who with their back room accounting and well placed lawyers and multi slicing of royalties take all the money and wind up owning all the rights.

Enough said.

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