Irish Collection Society Wants Music Bloggers To Pay Up To Promote Music
from the foot,-gun,-aim dept
After recently covering how an Irish performance rights society wanted to charge hotels for public performance fees because people could listen to music in their rooms, comes the news (sent in by eoinmonty) that a different Irish music organization, the Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO), is demanding popular music blogs throughout Ireland pay up to keep promoting music -- even when that music is sent to the bloggers by the record labels and musicians directly for the sake of promotion. They apparently have already hit up some of the most popular Irish music blogs, even though some of them make no money at all (have no ads) and are done purely for the love of the music.The issue, of course, is that IMRO covers the songwriting/composition rights -- like ASCAP or BMI in the US -- rather than the performance/recording rights. So, in IMRO's short-sighted view, it doesn't even matter if the musicians and labels want the music playing for free on those blogs, it has to collect for the songwriters. Apparently, no one has stopped to realize that in demanding hundreds of pounds from some popular hobbyist sites that those sites will likely go away, and the songwriters will get significantly less exposure for their music.
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After all, slavery only acted to the detriment of Africans in half our country. IP abuse acts to the detriment of us all....
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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Oddly, this is neither of those. I'm just trying for a long-winded way of letting you know that I do indeed realize that what you're saying is correct....
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Well, not the rich people who abuse it, at least not in the short run (though by hindering technological advancement and by hindering the progress it does act as a detriment to everyone in the long run).
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Cure
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See, file-sharing is the exact equivalent of the holocaust. Here you have groups of raporist heathens running around, cataloguing artists and essentially forcing them to work for free by not paying for their artistic endeavors. They then list all of these works on torrent sites, catalogued and searchable, not unlike the Nazis did with the Jews on their IBM punchcard computers.
And just as the Nazis spread throughout Europe and had their eyes on Africa, Asia, and the Americas, so to has this nefarious practice of forcing artists and musicians into slave labor. What is the difference between a torrent site and a concentration camp, really? So what if instead of putting artists to death quickly through the gas chambers and firing squads they do it slowly by removing their livlihood? The end result is the same!
And because of this, most of these artists must be represented by labels who have a brand....aha! Not unlike the branding of the Star of David, no?
The truth is that pirates are Nazis, and there is no difference between stealing a song or movie and stealing Polish land. There is no difference between listening to a downloaded Lady Gaga song and murdering a Jew. You are all holocausting culture simply because that cultre holocausts more than you're willing to holospend.
(Seriously, that was an absolutely excellent creative writing exercise....)
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"Oh, you represent the starving artists, now do you? Well [shuffling some printouts] it says right here that only 15% of the money you collect actually goes to the artists. Hmmm. Interesting."
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Or maybe ...
01/01/2020 - In the end the only blogs that survived were those that covered indie bands and the CC scene.
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and in the same way intellectual property ends up possessing those who seek to possess it.
The sad cases of people like the Wright brothers are testimony to this point.
Personally I seek the abolition of copyrights and patents because of the psychological harm they do to those that hold them.
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Well, not the rich people who abuse it,
Yes it does harm them, it is to them as the One Ring was to Gollum.. "me precious..."
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Thanks :)
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been like this in Germany for ages
The very same is true for music blogs. I'm running a small record label and of course, I ran the company's blog offering podcasts, snippets of new releases and the likes. Actually, I'd have to pay royalties for all this - truth is that just a fraction would arrive at the artist's account so I prefer to to promote my artists in the best possible way while doing illegal things (such as not paying royalties).
I'm just waiting for the day when GEMA will ask for license fees for the youtube videos I'm putting up to promote a release. Hey, I'd even had to pay for the free downloads the label offers from every release. Sick world, innit?
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It's The Worst Day Since Yesterday
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You see, the only people who are allowed to write about music are called "journalists." A journalist is someone who writes for an "established publication," which needs to be recognized by the government as such.
Any other (unapproved, unrecognized) media outlet will not be considered to be an established publication unless it is purchased by an established publication, which at that point it will be recognized.
Any and all unapproved media outlets (including all owners, management, employees, volunteers, contributors, suppliers, fans, followers, devotees, and hangers-on) shall become liable for any and all violations of intellectual property owners rights.
Such violations, usually given innocuous terms such as "piracy" and "fair use," are a very egregious form of theft. The perpetrators of such heinous deeds are of the class of scum and villainy generally associated with murders, rapists and terrorists. In fact, studies have shown that most of these "IP rapists" regularly commit all of the aforementioned crimes, as well as such atrocities as human sacrifice, genocide, and kitty porn.
That's why we, as fine, upstanding citizens of the world, must act, and act quickly and decisively. Contact your local Congressman and let him know that you're mad as hell, and you're not gonna take it anymore! Do it for the starving actors and music artists. Do it for yourself and your loved ones. But most of all, do it for the kitties!
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So The Leprachaun wants all of the gold at the end of the rainbow
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A Word About Congress
So, who is the author, what is the oath, and since this is the second time it was changed without the Author's or the Authors estate's permission, what was the first time? Incidentally, the author objected the first time and the Estate also filed a complaint, to no avail! So much for Democracy in action, so much for the separation of Church and State, and so much for the Federal Government following the same copyright law they put on the books in the first place!
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DOWN WITH CORPORATES !!!
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