Rupert Murdoch, Pirate? Gave Away Jimi Hendrix CD Without Clearing The Rights
from the oops dept
Rupert Murdoch has been one of the more outspoken media industry folks about how evil "piracy" is in destroying his newspaper industry, usually pointing his anger towards Google, which almost certainly doesn't infringe on Murdoch's copyrights. So, it's interesting to find out that the Murdoch-owned Sunday Times in the UK has apparently been found guilty of pretty widespread copyright infringement, in distributing a Jimi Hendrix live CD to readers without first obtaining the requisite rights from the Hendrix estate (thanks to PeteProdge for sending this over). There's been an ongoing legal fight about this, and the Sunday Times has now lost. The article suggests that the paper may be facing damages of about $250,000, which seems pretty low, considering that we're used to seeing numbers like that thrown around for sharing just a few songs online, and in this case, over 1.3 million copies of the CD were given away.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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The media companies..
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PYRATE
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Did they buy the CD's
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Seems fair...
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This makes my head hurt.
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Re: Did they buy the CD's
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The Sunday Times gets punished by paying 2 cents per song and we get the privilege of paying 99 cents per song.
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eh
Let's hope lawyers of filesharers can make use of the verdict.
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You're blatantly wrong, Mike. Was not
And an oblique damage:
"In May 2008 the claimants chose to pursue a claim for damages relating to loss of earnings from the delay to the concert film project."
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Re: Did they buy the CD's
...*cough*
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Re: Seems fair...
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Co$t of piracy
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Seriously... I'm sure you probably work for the RIAA or something, but do try to not be so stupid.
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Re: You're blatantly wrong, Mike. Was not
Someone may need to explain that one to me.
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Sunday Times didn't do their fact checking
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/10/sunday_times_hendrix_ruling/
but of course this should never happen because it is incredibly simple to determine who owns the rights to piece of work which is why google should be responsible for stopping infringement, right Rupert?
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Re: This makes my head hurt.
And if that's the case, 'pre-settlement' (aka extortion) letters will be worthless as it would be considerably less expensive to go to court.
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Courts in Canada, the UK, Australia etc wouldn't dream of those kind of damages simply because the punishment doesn't fit the "crime". That and the plantiff hasn't a hope in hell of ever collecting.
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Re: This makes my head hurt.
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Re: You're blatantly wrong, Mike. Was not
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Re: Sunday Times didn't do their fact checking
Then they didn't have a license. Open and shut case.
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Laws weren't made...
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Re: Sunday Times didn't do their fact checking
Charly should be punished for pretending to have privileges that it does not have.
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Re: Re: Sunday Times didn't do their fact checking
I imagine they will be.
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As the saying goes...
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We can send people from oficial blog of Jimi Hendrix's Fanclub
http://jimi-hendrix-fanclub.blogspot.com/
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Leave your link on my blog
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