Re: Q- is it okay to upload covers to my website?

Adrian Legg wrote:
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:14:24 +0100, performingchimp wrote
(in article <4AJRj.83459$jH5.27079@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

[...]
- look at youtube.

...which has always been sensitive to copyright infringement. and which has now entered into a license agreement with MCPS-PRS Alliance who collect royalties on behalf of its constituent composer and publisher members as payment for the use of their original material.

and it is ridiculous to suggest that every cover should be paid for.

No more ridiculous than suggesting anyone who creates something original has to do it for free.


[...]

If you want to talk about people using music for profiteering, then the likes of me are not the culprits. Look into the behaviour of companies like Live Nation and Sony/BMG.

Not the issue here, but it is the old Napster pharisee excuse of "Well they're worse than me, I'm liberating the artists from them"


Adrian



I'm afraid I disagree with this on principle and in practice.

There are many ways for musicians to earn a living without taking small amounts of royalties from their fellow musicians *when those musicians are not directly profiting* from the performance. I pay royalties for my CD sales and complete PRS for live performances.

There are many ways we know this transgression already happens all the time. House concerts (I never check if my hosts have applied for a music perfrmance license, do you?), buskers, etc.

But to keep on a specific track: the internet IS the music industry now, for everything from advertising, promotion, actual sales... everything except live performance. The world HAS changed, I'm afraid the goalposts are moving.

There are various examples of people covering my songs knocking about online, and nobody has offered me any money and I haven't asked. In practical terms this is simply how it now works, it cannot be changed in any way can see. I happen to think it's great, but even if you disagree it's only a tiny aspect of the massive changes underway (whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is up to you).

Napster is a dangerous sidetrack for this argument - putting other people's songs on your website is not the same as bootlegging recordings. For obvious reasons, not least that no love, talent or desire to express something goes into ripping a CD.

Whether Youtube will end up paying PRS for a kid sticking a camera in his bedroom and playing Wonderwall I have no idea. Whether this will make a difference, seeing as Youtube's size in relation to all the many many other video sites is vastly over-reported in the press, I don't know. But this doesn't counter my argument - YOUTUBE profit directly from the content, so YOUTUBE pays! I agree with that! If you have a partner account on Youtube, then you profit from the advertising too. And all the content must be your own intellectual copyright. I agree with this too.

Jon
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