Two on the pernicious influence of copyright collection societies

Thu, 17 Sep 2015 23:51:04 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
Kenyan Copyright Collection Society Shockingly Found To Be Paying
Artists Very Little
<https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150826/10142832069/kenyan-copyright-collection-society-shockingly-found-to-be-paying-artists-very-little.shtml>

"The very existence of copyright collection societies, those
organizations that try to find any way to squeeze any amount of money of
any businesses that in any way do anything with any music, is predicated
on one excuse: they do all of this for the artists. Yes, throughout the
world, benevolent money-changers are digging through the pockets of
mostly small business owners, just trying to get some coin for
song-writers and musicians."


UK Music Collection Society PRS Sues SoundCloud
<https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150827/18102232090/uk-music-collection-society-prs-sues-soundcloud.shtml>

"As always, it appears that appeasing copyright extremists never gets
you very far in the long run. The rumors for months are that, as with
pretty much every other successful internet music-related service, the
legacy players come asking for huge chunks of equity if you don't want
to get sued."


Cheers,
        *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net                   Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/             Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/                Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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