"Is There Any Way To Be A Music Blogger Without Risking Takedown?"
This is simple. Any music blogger should simply obtain licenses from ASCAP, SoundExchange, and BMI and he's good to go.
I'm sure the blogger will claim that he should not have to purchase such licenses because he's promoting the music and giving the labels and the artists free exposure, but that's not his choice to make. No one has any right to promote a third party's copyright.
By any sense of logic and decency, the band Survivor and their one hit Eye of the Tiger should have long been forgotten. But the song was included in both Rock Band 2 and in Guitar Hero World Tour. My 7 and 8 year old kids, and all their friends, know that song inside and out.
This exposure must have helped the band in some sense. I know I ended up buying the song from Amazon to put on my kids' players. I couldn't have been the only one.
And when today's generations of kids have grown up and are working in the real world, when they have to decide on some cheesy song from their past to put in a commercial or a movie, they'll choose Eye of the Tiger and give it an entirely new life.
All because it was included in a video game. F#ck Warner and its shortsighted greed.
A trend everyone is missing is flash gaming among kids. My daughter and son (age 7 and 8) and all their friends spend more time playing flash games (e.g., Poptropica) than they do playing their consoles. (We have a 360, PS3, Wii, Dreamcast, and an N64.)
And what's really amazing that my daughter actually plays these games, because she rarely plays any console game.
These kids are glued to these games until we pull them off.
So, here's my point. These games always have very repetitive and cheesy background music. The kids are basically glued to the computer while this music is playing in the background over and over again.
Why the frick aren't the labels using this as an opportunity to get their songs into the ears of kids?! This is about 100 times better than radio or MTV!
I'm not saying that each game should have its own song pushed down the kids' throat. I'm saying that the songs should rotate while the kids are playing. The kids will become familiar with the songs and might actually want to buy them! Heck, include links to iTunes and Amazon so the kids or parents can buy them!
Mike, what somebody should do and what they will do are two entirely different things. As I've said before, when a company has a government granted monopoly they do not understand how a free market capitalist system works. They don't now how to change to the marketplace, how to set prices, how to make a better product to serve their customers. They live off their government monopoly like a parasite lives off its host.
When the copyright industry is faced with competition it sues. If it is not legally capable of suing, it has the laws changed so it can sue. If that's not enough, it demands government protection of its government granted monopoly.
The copyright industry is utterly convinced that its monopolies are more important than any right we as citizens might have. If you think the drug war back in the 80s and 90s was ridiculous for putting relatively innocent people in prison, the upcoming war on IP infringement will be 100 times worse.
People will be incarcerated, families will be bankrupted, and lives will be ruined. All for the protection of Disney and Viacom's monopolies.
In Michigan we used to have a law requiring drug dealers to obtain a license for their illegal drugs. For example, if you had 2 kilos of pot, you'd go down to your secretary of state office and obtain your license. Needless to say, not many people took advantage of that.
"Isn't that basically what they did when radio came along?"
Actually, back then the music industry lined up to pay money to the radio stations to get their music to the masses. It was called payola. From the Straight Dope:
Paying somebody to place a song before the public dates to the early days of the modern popular music industry. At the height of the scandal Billboard magazine claimed that payola in various forms had been common during the big band era of the 1930s and 40s and in the vaudeville business in the 1920s.
Young guy: Have you heard the news, there's this new thing called radio. They're going to play and promote our music for free. People will start buying our music by the bushel.
Old idiot: Free?! So they're not paying us anything?
Young guy: No, you don't get it. They're giving us free advertising. People across the nation will hear our label's music and will buy it. We'll make a fortune!
Old idiot: I don't know, we'd better have the lawyers file a lawsuit against this "radio." It sounds like they're leaching off of our hard work.
Young guy: No, you're still not getting it. Right now no one is hearing our music. We have to spend a fortune promoting our artists to get the word out, but these radio folks will do it for free. We'll make more money if we let them play it.
Old idiot, on phone to legal department: Have you guys heard about this new thing called radio? I want you guys to sue them into the ground. In fact, sue the individual owners personally too, because they're just as guilty.
I'd guess that a musical/animated version of the story of the Tuskegee Airmen cast as fairies would still be about 10 times better than Howard the Duck.
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On the post: Is There Any Way To Be A Music Blogger Without Risking Takedown?
Re: Re:
Of course, thank you.
"then this should fall under fair use..."
Fair use is a defense, not a right.
"...shouldn't need the same licenses required to play the full song."
That's for a court to decide.
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Re: I have an idea
Google is definitely a guy, but he cross-dresses on weekends.
On the post: Is There Any Way To Be A Music Blogger Without Risking Takedown?
This is simple. Any music blogger should simply obtain licenses from ASCAP, SoundExchange, and BMI and he's good to go.
I'm sure the blogger will claim that he should not have to purchase such licenses because he's promoting the music and giving the labels and the artists free exposure, but that's not his choice to make. No one has any right to promote a third party's copyright.
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When you seek payment via force and coercion the technical term is extortion.
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Re: Re:
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Re: Re: Uh... Go Viacom?
This exposure must have helped the band in some sense. I know I ended up buying the song from Amazon to put on my kids' players. I couldn't have been the only one.
And when today's generations of kids have grown up and are working in the real world, when they have to decide on some cheesy song from their past to put in a commercial or a movie, they'll choose Eye of the Tiger and give it an entirely new life.
All because it was included in a video game. F#ck Warner and its shortsighted greed.
On the post: Viacom To Record Labels: If You Want More Money For Music In Video Games, We'll Find Other Music
And what's really amazing that my daughter actually plays these games, because she rarely plays any console game.
These kids are glued to these games until we pull them off.
So, here's my point. These games always have very repetitive and cheesy background music. The kids are basically glued to the computer while this music is playing in the background over and over again.
Why the frick aren't the labels using this as an opportunity to get their songs into the ears of kids?! This is about 100 times better than radio or MTV!
I'm not saying that each game should have its own song pushed down the kids' throat. I'm saying that the songs should rotate while the kids are playing. The kids will become familiar with the songs and might actually want to buy them! Heck, include links to iTunes and Amazon so the kids or parents can buy them!
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How about dump the DMCA but keep the safe harbor provisions. And broaden them to include trademarks.
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Mike, what somebody should do and what they will do are two entirely different things. As I've said before, when a company has a government granted monopoly they do not understand how a free market capitalist system works. They don't now how to change to the marketplace, how to set prices, how to make a better product to serve their customers. They live off their government monopoly like a parasite lives off its host.
When the copyright industry is faced with competition it sues. If it is not legally capable of suing, it has the laws changed so it can sue. If that's not enough, it demands government protection of its government granted monopoly.
The copyright industry is utterly convinced that its monopolies are more important than any right we as citizens might have. If you think the drug war back in the 80s and 90s was ridiculous for putting relatively innocent people in prison, the upcoming war on IP infringement will be 100 times worse.
People will be incarcerated, families will be bankrupted, and lives will be ruined. All for the protection of Disney and Viacom's monopolies.
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Pot, I'd like you to meet my good friend Kettle. You guys should get along nicely, you're both black.
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Wanna overthrow the government? We have a form for that!
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Re: Re: It's time for a classic...
Actually, back then the music industry lined up to pay money to the radio stations to get their music to the masses. It was called payola. From the Straight Dope:
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It's time for a classic...
Young guy: Have you heard the news, there's this new thing called radio. They're going to play and promote our music for free. People will start buying our music by the bushel.
Old idiot: Free?! So they're not paying us anything?
Young guy: No, you don't get it. They're giving us free advertising. People across the nation will hear our label's music and will buy it. We'll make a fortune!
Old idiot: I don't know, we'd better have the lawyers file a lawsuit against this "radio." It sounds like they're leaching off of our hard work.
Young guy: No, you're still not getting it. Right now no one is hearing our music. We have to spend a fortune promoting our artists to get the word out, but these radio folks will do it for free. We'll make more money if we let them play it.
Old idiot, on phone to legal department: Have you guys heard about this new thing called radio? I want you guys to sue them into the ground. In fact, sue the individual owners personally too, because they're just as guilty.
Young guy: Face palms in disbelief.
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Meet the New Boss; Same as the Old Boss.
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Made the world a safer place for corn farmers.
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Just throwing this out there...
By the time the next Olympics comes around, YouTube should likely offer decent HD support.
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