Recording Industry Bans Musician From Charts For Supporting Free Music
from the fair-and-balanced dept
One of the favorite lines out of the recording industry honchos when confronted about musicians who are against industry efforts to sue individuals who share files is that the industry execs support whatever choice the musicians make for themselves. If the musicians want to free their music, the execs say, that's their choice. Funny, then, that the industry execs are acting out against a young musician who wants her music to be free. BPI, the UK version of the RIAA, has banned a twelve year-old singer songwriter from a new music chart they were creating for schools. The reason, apparently, is that BPI doesn't want to promote young Amy Thomas' music, since she's signed to a music label that doesn't support BPI's stance on suing file sharers. Obviously, BPI is free to set up its charts however it wants -- but it really should stop claiming to the world that it represents whatever artists want.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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amy thomas' music..
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They promote the people that pay them
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HUH? Since when?
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so wrong on so many levels...
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Streisand Effect
So sure BPI, go ahead and ban the little girl. All you're really doing is giving her free publicity.
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Another label, another label, another label...
TAKE AWAY THE CAPS LOCK KEY AND PEOPLE WILL STILL DO THIS - another story, but I just had to mention it.
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Re: Another label, another label, another label...
Charts shouldn't be a commodity for those companies, they should show what's popular and what's not.
Not what label under BPI care has the 'best' music.
If they can't be arsed to include other labels on that list, then that list is phony and has no real value to add... Because it fails to show what's really, actually popular and what's not.
Just my 2 cents.
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Re: Re: Another label, another label, another labe
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But if...
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O_o
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BPI is an acronym
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33755
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Actually, reading through that article, they still seem very much the same. The only difference is that the girl was rejected before she could possibly be on the chart. As BPI admits in the article, they refused her application (which seems like a ban to me) based on the views of the label she signed with. That's more or less what the original story said.
The only difference is that she banned before she even had a chance to be on the list, not after she was supposed to be on it.
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Wow, big surprise
There's no problem having a company that wants to make money - it's the basis of a capitalist society. However a company that attempts to prevent people from actually using the product they purchase in a reasonable way and attempting to change copyright laws so that no one can have fun or be creative with the things they own just plain sucks. So I'll just carry o using iTunes until they fix it so Jhymn won't strip the DRM anymore and then'll have to find some place else.
I guess we're just lucky the're not quite as bad as the RIAA.
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Reply to those saying
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I Plugged this
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Re: I Plugged this
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How she can get to the top of the charts
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BPI is irlelvant
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National corporate curriculum
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media spin all around
Flowerburger found the perfect spokesmodel for their cause in a 12 year old girl and are now working as hard as they can to get the press to make this into a fight between a young artist trying to make it and the big corporation keeping her down. I don't see a single quote from the girl saying that she is for p2p filesharing. Obviously no-one is looking to see if she chose fowerburger for it's ideology, or if they were the only one to offer her a contract. I feel sorry for the girl because she is going to get caught up in this fight and media in a way that she probably never intended.
I call bullshit on this whole thing. It all sounds fabricated for an agenda to me. Personally, I don't care if I agree with someone or not, but when they start manipulating the truth for their own agenda I tend to stop trusting them.
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BPI deny the accusation
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/17/uk_music_industry_bl.html
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Re: BPI deny the accusation
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Flowerburger supports the proper payment of musicians but not by suing fans to scare them into buying . Flowerburger supports a levy like was done for radio that will give income to struggeling musicians as well as the famous ones. On the Flowerburger web site there is a petion against suing that has now been signed by thousands.The public will benefit and entertainment will flourish even more.
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Amazing...
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amy thomas
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HATE
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