What If There Was A Music Collection Society That Actually Understood That Free Isn't Always Bad?
from the well,-here's-a-shot dept
In the US we have three main music collection societies for performance rights (ASCAP, BMI and SESAC), and then SoundExchange for satellite/online streaming. However, many other countries just have a single collection society, with somewhat monopolistic tendencies. There have been efforts (mostly failed) to create more competition in Europe, mainly by encouraging the organizations to leave their local country and work across Europe. There have been precious few new entrants, however. At least one group is trying to change that -- and they're doing so by embracing the internet and the concepts of free culture. C3S, or the Cultural Commons Collecting Society is trying to enter the market in Europe in a much more culture-friendly manner:C3S is a collaborative effort to found a new and ground-breaking European collecting society for musical creators to register their works outside of traditional schemes, released under free licences for commercial exploitation. More than just for works published under Creative Commons Licences, C3S is open for other free licences as well.The new operation wants to encourage free distribution for non-commercial use, and a much more reasonable (and appealing) deal for both musicians and consumers. Just the fact that the organization has to make it clear that members are encouraged to make use of free licensing is an amazing step forward. Compare that to organizations like GEMA that have tried refusing to recognize Creative Commons licenses, and operations like ASCAP, who insist that Creative Commons is threat to musicians, rather than a useful tool. Who knows if C3S will go anywhere, but it's nice to see that it's at least being tried.
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Filed Under: collection society, cs3, europe
Companies: ascap, bmi, creative commons, gema, sesac
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Fight Gema and Brein?
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The only thing being praised in the summary is the fact that "free for non-commercial use" isn't being demonized by this collection society.
I wonder what you'd manage to spout if Mike praised a collection society for "being human" by siphoning off some of its money to support, say, the orphaned children of artists who died from starvation because the record labels didn't pay them royalties.
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Now PaulT, why do you justify ripping off the artists and how much money does the pirate bay give me, a professional musician? :P
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CC-BY-NC I believe is the default position of most musicians. They're still free to license it commercially, but when there's no money to be made and the second party isn't claiming authorship, the creator generally is pretty happy to see it happen.
"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" and all that. Humanity has progressed for centuries based on this. May we continue to do so.
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It would be called a comedy. Oh wait, it's already a joke.
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wow what a concept
http://archive.org/details/audio
Oh yeah...
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I don't know what the collection societies are so upset about. They enjoy their normal royalty rates on free music.
20 percent of $0 is....$0.
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Who gives a shit about these collection agencies?
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Then pigs would fly, hell would freeze over, and I'd win the lottery.
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Legal Advice to Criminals
Does anyone know where to insert a CD or DVD into your iPad? Maybe someone at the recording industry or movie industry knows.
You can listen to music on the radio. You can watch movie on the television.
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"Before you download copyrighted music or movie on the Internet consider the civil and criminal penalty associated with the criminal activity."
You seem to be confused about the difference between civil and criminal offences for a start. Your "legal advice" isn't looking too solid.
"Recording industry and movie industry make more money when you steal copyrighted works than when you purchase them."
Studies show that this is true, yet they still pretend that "pirates" lose them more money than their other problems...
"Does anyone know where to insert a CD or DVD into your iPad?"
No, but I know where to put them into a computer to perform a perfectly legal format shift to watch or listen to them on the device of my choosing.
"You can listen to music on the radio. You can watch movie on the television."
Yet, strangely, I pay for neither, without committing any crime. Te companies behind them are not bankrupt. There are also companies building on their business models for the 21st century that don't seem to be doing too badly.
Why, it's almost as though business models are the problem and not those "pirates" who are being fought by the "genius" method of removing rights from innocents and reducing the value of their own content for paying consumers...
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