Musician Upset That He's Being Used In Lawsuit Against Pirate Bay
from the not-against-it-at-all dept
Earlier this year, Swedish prosecutors finally filed charges against the Pirate Bay, using some of the evidence given to them by the IFPI. Among that "evidence" was a list of Swedish musicians supposedly "hurt" by file sharing. Apparently the IFPI didn't bother to check with those musicians to see how they felt about this. One Swedish hip hop star stood up to the IFPI pointing out that he has nothing against the Pirate Bay and, in fact, is "pro-file sharing," which is even represented in his music. On top of that, the IFPI doesn't own the rights to his music. Because of this, the IFPI has now had to cut back on how much money they're claiming the Pirate Bay owes them. However, if they did that with one artist, it makes you wonder how careful the IFPI was with other musicians as well.
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Filed Under: copyright, file sharing, lawsuit, musician, sweden
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i will and all ways will share
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Re: i will and all ways will share
I think I understand your point, not that it has anything to do with the article, but for Christ's sake man read your comment just once before you post it.
My take is that the Artist should sue. False representation is ultimately fraud and is something that most countries have laws against! You can't just go naming arbitrary complainants in a suit just to add more weight to it! Be interesting to find out just home many artists on their list actually feel aggrieved.
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Seems like consumers have less and less rights these days and even the talent that makes the corporations rich are being brushed aside... makes you wonder why we ever bought cds in the first place.
If only there could be a way to self market oneself and still be successful without the corporate label bs. Tila did it with myspace.
More of that for artists (with real talent) please.
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I never agreed to that
I would not like it if someone went around claiming that they represented me when I did not authorize it.
Is this in a grey area right next to identity theft ?
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"We own all music, which Swedish acts can we use in our lawsuit?"
It probably didn't occur to them that there was such a thing as popular and/or respected acts that didn't fall somewhere under their own membership, and they've probably retained rights to use their members as they wish.
I hope that the Swedish mainstream media pay as much, if not more, attention to this as the original lawsuit. They've definitely crossed the line here, though I fear that further lawsuits may not be the answer.
It just goes to show that it's the major record industry, not just the RIAA, that's the problem.
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manipulated artist
i'm so ready for swedish hip-hop.
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