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Kizzume
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 Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 12:57 pm Post subject: RIAA and prince going after THIS?I hate Prince now |
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http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/Story?id=3777651&page=2
A woman who was playing a prince song in the background on speakers that made it unrecognizable in her youtube video of her toddler jumping around had her video removed and was notified of her copyright infringement.
| Quote: | "I think the large copyright holders believe that if they do not police every single use of their copyrighted work -- no matter how benign -- that somehow that will open the floodgates to massive piracy,'' said Gigi Sohn of the Washington think-tank Public Knowledge.
"The problem with that is that viewers, Internet users, consumers, have rights under copyright law as well, and one of those rights is the ability to make fair, lawful uses of copyrighted work, for a variety of reasons," she said.
"The 'Let's Go Crazy baby?'" she asked rhetorically. "When you look at the facts, it's obvious that a take down notice should never have been sent. ... I mean, nobody downloads a video from YouTube with a song on it -- particularly 29 seconds of a song and says, 'OK, I don't have to buy the song' -- so clearly this was a type of use that didn't violate copyright."
Source: Prince 'Scours the Internet' Looking for Violations
For it's part, Universal said it was simply acting at the behest of one of its top artists.
"Prince believes it is wrong for YouTube, or any user-generated site, to appropriate his music without his consent,'' the company said in a statement released to ABC News Thursday. "That position has nothing to do with any particular video that uses his songs. It's simply a matter of principle. And legally, he has the right to have his music removed. We support him and this important principle. That is why, over the last few months, we have asked YouTube to remove thousands of different videos that use Prince music without his permission."
A well-placed source directly involved in the situation confirmed to ABC News that Prince was directly involved in seeking the takedown of Lenz's video. |
I'm sorry, but I really hate Prince now. I don't care how much talent he has or had, nobody is that special.
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Ess2s2
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Pirating Prince's full discography on general principal in 5...4...3...2...1...
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jq
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Prince is an asshole anyway. WHen I was reading the Biography on Trent Reznor it had a little section on Prince. Imagine this.
Prince was a huge fan of the "broken" EP and voiced it on several occasions.
Trent is nominated for a grammy for "Broken." Sees Prince back stage. Tries to say hello and ask "hey so you like 'Broken'? I am a HUGE fan of your music"
Prince, walks away. Says he doesn't have time to talk to him. Couldn't spend 2 minutes being a conversationalist back stage.
PS, Trent won the grammy.
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Kizzume
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From everything I'm reading when I google around, it seems that Prince isn't liked by very many people at all now. I hope he feels it hard.
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