Music piracy - archive for December 2006
Music piracy ('muziekpiraterij' in dutch) is a very complex phenomenon to comprehend. These pages wishes to address all of you who are interested in music piracy in a broad sense. You'll find articles related to music and video piracy (with special attention to articles from Belgium and the Netherlands).
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Experts say Australian copyright ruling has international implications
Mr. Cooper's Web site [mp3s4free.net] had not hosted copyright protected music, but the three appeal court judges agreed that by providing links to such music, it effectively authorized the infringement. (...) "If Google's search engine links to material which infringes on copyright and this material was accessed by Australians, then there is potential for legal action," EFA [Electronic Frontiers Australia Inc.] chairman Dale Clapperton said.
Date: 2006, December 26 | Source (EN): Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Briefing: Netherlands will drop fees on copyrights
The Dutch government said Wednesday that it would exempt digital music players and hard-disk video recorders from copyright taxes, saying the levy, which compensates artists for unauthorized copying, forced many consumers to pay it twice.
Date: 2006, December 20 | Source (EN): International Herald Tribune
Music industry backs off in piracy suit against NY mom
The recording industry is giving up its lawsuit against Patti Santangelo, a New York mother of five who became the best-known defendant in the industry's battle against online music piracy. However, two of her children are still being sued.
Date: 2006, December 20 | Source (EN): Cbc News
Ministerraad verwerpt thuiskopieheffing mp3-spelers
De minister van Justitie Ernst Hirsch Ballin komt met een Algemene Maatregel van Bestuur (AMvB) die tot doel heeft de voorwerpen aan te wijzen waarop de thuiskopievergoeding rust. De ministerraad heeft woensdag ingestemd met de ontwerp-AMvB. Hiermee wordt het besluit van Henk Vonhoff, voorzitter van de Stichting Onderhandelingen Thuiskopievergoeding (SONT), ongedaan gemaakt.
Date: 2006, December 20 | Source (NL): Webwereld
Ook Australische rechter verbiedt linken naar illegale mp3-bestanden
De rechtbank oordeelde dat Cooper schuldig is aan het faciliteren van auteursrechtinbreuken door willens en wetens links naar illegale mp3-bestanden aan te bieden. De waarschuwing aan de gebruikers van de site tegen het maken van inbreuken is niet voldoende om die schuld te ontlopen. Ook in Nederland is het linken naar illegale bestanden onrechtmatig en indien een site structureel gebruik maakt van links naar illegale bestanden dan is die site als geheel onrechtmatig.
Date: 2006, December 20 | Source (NL): Stichting Brein
Gates: Digital locks too complex
Digital Rights Management (DRM), which is used to stop copying, is a big issue for some people who feel it limits what they can do with legally bought files. (...) Bill Gates' short-term advice for people wanting to transfer songs from one system to another was to "buy a CD and rip it".
Date: 2006, December 15 | Source (EN): Bbc
Nokia Nseries Connecting Legends Of India
Nokia Nseries has joined hands with Indian Music Industry (IMI) to announce 'Legends of India', a new music offering to be preloaded into the Nokia Nseries music edition devices (...) Our partnership with Nokia Nseries will go a long way in creating a new revenue stream for the industry at large as well as help curb illegal distribution of music content."
Date: 2006, December 14 | Source (EN): EFYtimes
Apple denies download sales fall
Apple said the report is "simply incorrect", but will not divulge iTunes financial figures. Forrester said Apple users may be put off since iTunes songs can only be played on iPods or via iTunes itself. (...) While overall US sales at the iTunes Music Store were down 65%, the number of monthly transactions had declined 58%, while the average size per purchase had fallen 17%, Forrester said.
Date: 2006, December 13 | Source (EN): Bbc
'Crazy' en 'Hips Don't Lie' populairste iTunes in België
De enige Belgische artieste in de lijst is Axelle Red. Haar nieuwe plaat 'Jardin Secret' bekleedt een negende plaats in de album toptien van de iTunes Store België. (...) De iTunes Store publiceert deze week een overzicht van alle bestverkopende singles en albums van 2006 in alle 22 landen waarin het actief is.
Date: 2006, December 12 | Source (NL): Het Laatste Nieuws
Sales of iPods and iTunes Not Much in Sync
Although both are successful, the relationship may not have worked out exactly as expected. At any given point, the cumulative number of songs sold by the iTunes store has generally been about 20 times the cumulative number of iPods sold, according to Forrester Research, the technology consulting firm. (...) The numbers suggest that iPods are not driving iTunes sales as much as early supporters may have expected.
Date: 2006, December 11 | Source (EN): New York Times
Makers 'South Park' hebben niets tegen illegaal downloaden
Matt Stone en Trey Parker, de makers van de cartoonreeks 'South Park', zeggen in een interview onomwonden dat ze voorstander zijn van het illegaal downloaden van hun materiaal. (...) "Heel wat mensen zien onze shows enkel en alleen dankzij downloads die illegaal zijn. Dat heeft ons nooit kwaad berokkend. Hoe kan je in godsnaam actie ondernemen tegen mensen die je werk willen zien?
Date: 2006, December 11 | Source (NL): De Morgen
McCartney en Williams in de bres voor eerlijk auteursrecht
De Britse muzikanten pleiten voor een geldigheid van 95 jaar, zoals in de Verenigde Staten. De kwestie over het auteursrecht is opgelaaid nu zanger Cliff Richards de rechten op zijn eerste hit 'Move it!' uit 1958 dreigt kwijt te raken.
Date: 2006, December 07 | Source (NL): De Morgen
RIAA Petitions Judges to Lower Artist Royalties
The language of this statement reveals a great deal about who the RIAA is looking out for, and it's not artists. Couched in terms of apparent necessity, the RIAA's is insisting that the real musicians be paid less so that the record companies can continue to "drive revenues."
Date: 2006, December 07 | Source (EN): Ign Entertainment
Reuters Summit - Phones need better music interface - Warner Music
Wireless operators and cell phone makers need to make it easier for consumers to listen to music on handsets to tap the full potential of the market (...) (...) Warner Music derives about half of its digital music revenue from sales of wireless products such as musical ringtones.
Date: 2006, December 02 | Source (EN): Reuters
Dubbele Clouseau-mania is begonnen
Nieuw is ook de instant live-cd die elke avond en meteen na de show te koop is voor 23 euro. Deze cd zal niet in de winkels te verkrijgen zijn (...)
Date: 2006, December 01 | Source (NL): Het Laatste Nieuws
Interview: Warner Music boss Edgar Bronfman
Warner Music Chief Executive Edgar Bronfman sat down in Second Life on Friday for a broad-ranging interview about CopyBot, the balancing act between the content industry's copyrights and the creativity of its customers, and the time he caught his own kids illegally downloading songs.
Date: 2006, December 01 | Source (EN): Reuters
Opnieuw 4 illegale p2p-sites offline, totaal nu op 110
Deze week werden weer vier illegale p2p-sites offline gehaald na sommatie van BREIN. Het betreft de Bittorrentsites expoto.org, dreamplace.org, avalon-torrents.com, en mystery-torrents.nl. De Nederlandstalige sites hadden samen zo'n 23.000 geregistreerde gebruikers. (...) Recent wees de Amsterdamse Voorzieningenrechter een eis van BREIN toe waardoor een Internet Service Provider de NAW-gegevens diende af te geven van grote uploaders die als bron betrokken waren bij een illegale p2p-site.
Date: 2006, December 01 | Source (NL): Stichting Brein