Linked by Paul Cesarini on Mon 8th Sep 2003 03:02 UTC
Thanks to a provision in the 1976 Copyright Act, U.S. law allows the first purchaser of copyrighted material (a book, CD, etc) to subsequently re-sell that item without the copyright owner's consent. In this age of online distribution and the budding, halting attempts at legitimizing it, is the the right to re-sell going to be upheld?
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> You don't call price-fixing(http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/32048.html) wrong?
From the above article:
> A pair of major music labels have been hit with another
> round of price-fixing charges courtesy of the FT
Lets see, RIAA is a oragnization support by major (and some minor labels) This is about 2 companies on their own fixing prices. RIAA can't fix prices because they don't sell the music.
> If you don't, what about payola(http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2002/03/13/indie_promotion/)?
from the above article:
>This time around, the major labels hope to build a broad
> coalition, including smaller independent record companies
> as well as artists, in their brewing battle over
> pay-for-play.
>
> "It would be great to work with the RIAA, I'd welcome it,"
> says Jenny Toomey, executive director of the Future of
> Music Coalition, a musician advocacy group that has
> publicly challenged the RIAA over a range of issues,
> including royalties and copyrights.
This about RIAA acting for the major labels to remove the current system of payola which the iny labels WANT to happen because it levels the playing field. Remember this current system came into being (I think) late 50's after the giant payola scam, where labels did pay for music to be played.
And If you read page 2 you will find that the radio stations control what gets paid and they bill the labels for it. SO it means the labels have no control.
> Sounds like a strange sense of values to me.
No it sounds like RIAA is a trade orginazation like thousands of others.
Donaldson