Comments on: Facebook Stops The Music! Audio Application For Copyright Violation http://facereviews.com/2007/07/31/facebook-stops-the-music-audio-application-for-copyright-violation/ Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:13:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Colin Smillie http://facereviews.com/2007/07/31/facebook-stops-the-music-audio-application-for-copyright-violation/#comment-487 Colin Smillie Mon, 06 Aug 2007 02:38:39 +0000 http://facereviews.com/2007/07/31/facebook-stops-the-music-audio-application-for-copyright-violation/#comment-487 What a disappointing situation, I think its very unfortunately that the recorse for many music sharing services is to simply shut them down. While I would suggest that there are many cases of abuse, the Audio application would be very useful for many smaller and independent musicians to self-promote. There are many tools for detecting and curtailing copyright materials: http://www.wavedna.com/ http://www.musicip.com/ Cutting off the whole application would seem to be rather extreme... What a disappointing situation, I think its very unfortunately that the recorse for many music sharing services is to simply shut them down.

While I would suggest that there are many cases of abuse, the Audio application would be very useful for many smaller and independent musicians to self-promote.

There are many tools for detecting and curtailing copyright materials:

http://www.wavedna.com/
http://www.musicip.com/

Cutting off the whole application would seem to be rather extreme…

]]> By: Tinu http://facereviews.com/2007/07/31/facebook-stops-the-music-audio-application-for-copyright-violation/#comment-325 Tinu Wed, 01 Aug 2007 20:32:03 +0000 http://facereviews.com/2007/07/31/facebook-stops-the-music-audio-application-for-copyright-violation/#comment-325 Where legal issues abound, I have to vote for good. Because one minor legal issue could really shut them down - look at how Viacom has gone apeshit over YouTube. What if Google hadn't bought them? They'd go bankrupt even trying to fight. On the other hand, part of me wants to know what happened to the line of copyright law that said you could share music for personal use? Wasn't this the compromise that allowed technology to advance? Without this clause, tape recorders that saved radio streams may never have been legal, which would have retarded the tape industry, which wouldn't have given rise to CD copy and back up, etc. The part of me that used to be a performing artist feels like the music industry should be ashamed of itself here, it's not like they get the lion's share of profits from CDs. Songs on the radios are really just commercials for CDs, which are commercials for videos, which are commercials for the real money, touring. That's where the huge money is made - with big artists, they can make as much filling a stadium at $25- $75 a pop in one concert than the artist takes home from a platinum record. Anyway, before this turns into a blog post, I'll let someone else speak. Where legal issues abound, I have to vote for good. Because one minor legal issue could really shut them down – look at how Viacom has gone apeshit over YouTube. What if Google hadn’t bought them? They’d go bankrupt even trying to fight.

On the other hand, part of me wants to know what happened to the line of copyright law that said you could share music for personal use? Wasn’t this the compromise that allowed technology to advance? Without this clause, tape recorders that saved radio streams may never have been legal, which would have retarded the tape industry, which wouldn’t have given rise to CD copy and back up, etc.

The part of me that used to be a performing artist feels like the music industry should be ashamed of itself here, it’s not like they get the lion’s share of profits from CDs. Songs on the radios are really just commercials for CDs, which are commercials for videos, which are commercials for the real money, touring. That’s where the huge money is made – with big artists, they can make as much filling a stadium at $25- $75 a pop in one concert than the artist takes home from a platinum record.

Anyway, before this turns into a blog post, I’ll let someone else speak.

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