Comments on: Music Rights Group Claims Money From Creative Commons Event http://torrentfreak.com/music-rights-group-claims-money-from-creative-commons-event-111114/ Breaking File-sharing, Copyright and Privacy News Tue, 28 Oct 2014 22:56:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2 By: Copyright is Failing, Who Feeds the Artists? Asks EU Commissioner | TorrentForce Blog /music-rights-group-claims-money-from-creative-commons-event-111114/#comment-849484 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:43:37 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=42466#comment-849484 [...] Kroes explained that most artists in Europe can’t make a decent living from what they do, and gave the example that 97.5 percent of German musicians earn less than 1000 euros a month. Implicitly, she hereby argues that the restrictive copyright system we have now is benefiting multi-million euro companies, but not necessarily the artists at large as recent examples illustrate. [...]

]]> By: Copyright is Failing, Who Feeds the Artists? Asks EU Commissioner | Links Daily /music-rights-group-claims-money-from-creative-commons-event-111114/#comment-849377 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:17:24 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=42466#comment-849377 [...] Kroes explained that most artists in Europe can’t make a decent living from what they do, and gave the example that 97.5 percent of German musicians earn less than 1000 euros a month. Implicitly, she hereby argues that the restrictive copyright system we have now is benefiting multi-million euro companies, but not necessarily the artists at large as recent examples illustrate. [...]

]]> By: Copyright is Failing, Who Feeds the Artists? Asks EU Commissioner | Ebooks on Crack /music-rights-group-claims-money-from-creative-commons-event-111114/#comment-849324 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:52:24 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=42466#comment-849324 [...] Kroes explained that most artists in Europe can’t make a decent living from what they do, and gave the example that 97.5 percent of German musicians earn less than 1000 euros a month. Implicitly, she hereby argues that the restrictive copyright system we have now is benefiting multi-million euro companies, but not necessarily the artists at large as recent examples illustrate. [...]

]]> By: Copyright is Failing, Who Feeds the Artists? Asks EU Commissioner | We R Pirates /music-rights-group-claims-money-from-creative-commons-event-111114/#comment-849271 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:20:24 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=42466#comment-849271 [...] Kroes explained that most artists in Europe can’t make a decent living from what they do, and gave the example that 97.5 percent of German musicians earn less than 1000 euros a month. Implicitly, she hereby argues that the restrictive copyright system we have now is benefiting multi-million euro companies, but not necessarily the artists at large as recent examples illustrate. [...]

]]> By: Copyright is Failing, Who Feeds the Artists? Asks EU Commissioner | TorrentFreak /music-rights-group-claims-money-from-creative-commons-event-111114/#comment-849239 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:55:11 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=42466#comment-849239 [...] Kroes explained that most artists in Europe can’t make a decent living from what they do, and gave the example that 97.5 percent of German musicians earn less than 1000 euros a month. Implicitly, she hereby argues that the restrictive copyright system we have now is benefiting multi-million euro companies, but not necessarily the artists at large as recent examples illustrate. [...]

]]> By: Anonymous /music-rights-group-claims-money-from-creative-commons-event-111114/#comment-848640 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:47:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=42466#comment-848640 nirl.eu/5

]]> By: Anonymous /music-rights-group-claims-money-from-creative-commons-event-111114/#comment-848471 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:02:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=42466#comment-848471 phlpn.es/7x9vmd

]]> By: Viktor Basso /music-rights-group-claims-money-from-creative-commons-event-111114/#comment-848457 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:52:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=42466#comment-848457 Nearly the same thing happened to Narvik Studentradio, a non commercial creative commons radio, that only plays creative commons music.
TONO which administers copyrights for music in Norway, claimed music royalties from the radio station and demanded us to sign a backdated contract.

They gave up eventually.

]]> By: Anonymous /music-rights-group-claims-money-from-creative-commons-event-111114/#comment-848341 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 02:07:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=42466#comment-848341 phlpn.es/7x9vmd

]]> By: Floppy Copy /music-rights-group-claims-money-from-creative-commons-event-111114/#comment-848320 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:04:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=42466#comment-848320 I think GEMA knows they don’t really have a leg to stand on. It’s just that they feel they don’t have anything to lose by turning CC into a huge hassle for anyone who uses it. The hope is that by doing so, people learn that it isn’t worth the trouble and so stick to paying for copyrighted works that fall under their umbrella. Underhanded tactics, but if the law allows such abuses, then that’s that. The only thing for it is to either change the current law, or enact new ones which make it illegal to run what is essentially a twist on the pay up or else racket we commonly see these days. The bonus is that those accused will likely pay the demanded fees just to make it all go away, which is a lot easier than trying to prove each and every song is indeed CC.

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