[BC] While you are waiting for receivers

[Al Stewart]

They're not just going after recorded music ... check this out ...


The U.S.-based Music Publishers Association is calling for a halt to websites that share song chords and lyrics. 

The move is an escalation in the copyright war against file-sharing on the internet. 

Guitar licks and song scores are widely available on the internet but are "completely illegal," association president Lauren Keiser told the BBC. 

The sites seldom have sheet music, such as a music publisher would print, but outline guitar chords for amateur musicians trying to pick out their favorite songs. They also have text of the lyrics. 

Full story at ... 

http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2005/12/09/Arts/music_copyright_051209.html


Al


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>It isn't really the XM and Sirius, any more than it is the way IBOC is not supposed to be able to be recorded in digital format - it is the record companies searching for every last dime.
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>I was amazed to learn that most of the streaming (and maybe for HD-2?) licenses from RIAA specify no more than three songs from an artist in three hours ...
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>Apparently, they are terrified of any station doing what the companies used to pay for: running an entire album as a "special"
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>At 02:44 PM 12/11/05, Williams, Chris \(Albuquerque\) wrote
>>So what are they going to do if we hook up the headphone out to a tape deck or sound card input, sounds like a waste of money fighting allowing what has always been allowed. I pay to see or hear from a service provider that should be where it stops. We are paying twice, once to the service provider to hear it then to the record companies to keep it. I CALL B*LLS**T! Then they justify the price of buying by offering better audio quality......did they just admit the audio quality that both XM and Sirius boast as "Like CD Quality" really isn't. Geeesh if I was a consumer protection attorney with Spitzer's resources.........
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>>*rant mode off*
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Al Stewart
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