MySpace doesn't allow an artist to upload his own music

Louigi Verona · October 07, 2009, 20:49:30

Great read from TorentFreak and a great situation: copyright of a song went back from the label to the artist, but the label still claims its rights on distribution and MySpace blocks the song.
At the same time other major labels continue to sell the song though they do not have rights to it anymore, thus effectively pirating work of the artist and gaining profit from it.

http://torrentfreak.com/copyright-drama-prevents-artist-from-sharing-music-on-myspace-091007/

Ironic.

Saga Musix · October 07, 2009, 20:52:47

MySpace is stupid, anyway.

uncloned · October 07, 2009, 23:11:28

of course....

the artist signs away their rights in a record contract.

nothing new here.

Paul McCartney now has to pay to play Beatles songs in concert that he wrote because the Beatles song catalog was sold.

its all about the Benjamins and so precious little about the art.

that is why creative commons is so needed.

g · October 08, 2009, 14:55:54

About Paul McCartney, considering the history I have a hard time feeling sorry for him...

uncloned · October 08, 2009, 23:34:39

that's not the point.

the point is legalities trump common sense and... let's not even get into art.

g · October 09, 2009, 13:53:53

Well yes, it's a system chosen by us through the process of democracy.

Anyway, to get to the topic, I think it's infinitely more upsetting that Warner keeps selling the music they don't have the right to sell than MySpace out of routine denying Edwyn Collins to post his own songs.

To comment on Jojo's comment, I disagree. MySpace can be nice if you avoid the "friends race" and are a bit selective when it comes to "friends".

Saga Musix · October 09, 2009, 23:54:33

Quote from: "g"To comment on Jojo's comment, I disagree. MySpace can be nice if you avoid the "friends race" and are a bit selective when it comes to "friends".

Well, I'm not really fond of "web 2.0 platforms"... That's of course just a personal oppinion, but I hate myspace just as much as facebork and other similar platforms.

machinesmith · October 10, 2009, 05:27:24

So wait...this is NOT you?!

LPChip · October 10, 2009, 09:27:19

Damn, she's hot...

Jojo, transform into her or I'll fire you from the staff

:lol: j/k

Saga Musix · October 10, 2009, 09:54:45

Uh... no. I'm still Jojo, not JoJo (even if many misspell that)

maleek · October 10, 2009, 19:30:16

Interesting story! Great read.

PPH · October 11, 2009, 12:01:08

Remember Paul McCartney must have pocked a handsome sum of millions of dollars for these "rights". He's not a victim. He chose the situation in exchange for an amount of money he thought was more important than to be able to play that music without paying.

Sam_Zen · October 11, 2009, 23:07:14

Before people want to go on their face, better read this first..

Louigi Verona · October 12, 2009, 12:43:03

To me it is not new information. In fact - if you are using the Google search engine - it does exactly the same. Notice that the advertisements would mirror what you searched in google like 15 minutes ago.

g · October 12, 2009, 14:23:09

Quote from: "Sam_Zen"Before people want to go on their face, better read this first..

If one is paranoid enough to worry about that, one should also be aware that there is no escape. If the secret services of the world feels like monitoring your every move it's not as if not using facebook will make much of a difference. In fact, it's probably a good idea to use it to overwhelm "them" with useless information.