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STUDY: 40% Unable to Name Legal Online Music Service
Consumer Focus also says that 85% can only name two, iTunes and Amazon, but UK music industry, in typical fashion, emphasizes that more than 35 exist and touts own study that found 96% awareness of iTunes and Amazon. Consumer Focus, the UK govt-backed consumer advocacy group, has long tried to illustrate the deficiency of the country’s copyright laws and the dramatic learning gap consumers have of them. In fact, just last month it found that almost 3/4 of the population doesn’t know what they’re legally allowed to copy or record, and that’s practically impossible to not infringe copyright laws as part of their daily lives unless they don’t use digital technology.
Continue reading »RIAA Wants Equal Punishment for Both Commercial and Non-Commercial Infringements
If you guys thought the notorious file sharing battle RIAA launched against Jammie Thomas-Rasset in 2009 about which we reported quite a number of times is over…well, you're wrong. A brief sum-up: RIAA: We are greedy! The initial court ruling , which ordered the defendant to pay damage fees to music industry of $1.92 million(!!!) for sharing 24 tracks (!!!) on p2p client Kazaa, was recently cut down to $54,000 by U.S. District Court Judge Michael Davis who thought the amount in the first decision was “monstrous and shocking” .
Continue reading »File Sharing – A Great Tool for Taste-Testing, Says Artist
Pharell Williams disapproves with the perception that file-sharing produces negative effects. The artist has expressed his opinion in a statement for MidemNet, where he suggested that this type of practice could actually have a pronounced positive impact, MusicWeek reports. “You need to embrace technology and see how it can help you,” he said.
Continue reading »Changes to the Digital Economy Bill Make No Difference, Says Music Industry
A few days ago we reported the creation of a new group, The European Audiovisual Social Dialogue Committee ‘whose purpose,’ we said ‘is to lobby the European Union to reinforce its actions against illegal file sharers.’ This happened just as the controversy of the Digital Economy Bill reached a very high point. Now changes have been made to the clause 17 of the legislation which makes possible the intervention of the Secretary of State to place the copyright law under stricter parameters to increase the efficiency in fighting online piracy. It seems that Business Secretary Lord Mandelson has amended his own clause following the lobbying from major companies like Google whose concerns that they will be targeted pushed for such actions and Lib Dem Lords’ worries that the Secretary has been allowed a much too bigger liberty with too little parliamentary scrutiny.
Continue reading »Antitrust Suit on Music Downloads Back in the Spotlight
The lawsuit accusing influential record labels of conspiring to set preferential prices for a large segment of people who download their music via the Internet was announced to be reinstated by a federal appeals court. The defendants summoned to court include names such as Bertelsmann AG, EMI Group, Sony Corp, Vivendi SA and Warner Music Group Corp, as well as various affiliates. The U.S.
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