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Supreme Court legalizes downloading music
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mica
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Posted : Oct 5, 2011 16:14:27
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The United State Supreme Court has refused an appeal that would have made downloading music an infringement of federal copyright law. Take that, Metallica!
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, or ASCAP, had been attempting to appeal to the Supreme Court an early ruling by an appeals court in New York that said that a downloaded song constituted a public performance of the song under federal copyright law. Attorneys for ASCAP were fighting to reverse that decision in hopes that they’d be able to collect additional royalties off of songs downloaded from the Web.
http://rt.com/usa/news/supreme-court-digital-ascap-061/ |
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Posted : Oct 5, 2011 16:34
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Something seems strange here.....
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mica
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Posted : Oct 5, 2011 16:39
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my thought as well, I just copy pasted this from a another forum, it looks legit |
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Posted : Oct 5, 2011 16:48
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mica
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Posted : Oct 5, 2011 16:52
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So the title is deceiving , which I also just copy pasted, I m at work not really having time to read it all |
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Basilisk
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Posted : Oct 5, 2011 17:31
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Right. It doesn't say what you think it does. Illegal downloads are still illegal. The ruling had to do with legal downloads for which various tariffs (e.g. mechanical royalties) are already paid. Performance rights organizations wanted a piece of the pie but were denied.
If you want to know more about this I suggest reading this guide:
http://www.tunecore.com/guides/sixrights
The PDF download link (at the top) is prettier to look at but the text is the same.
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mica
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Posted : Oct 5, 2011 17:35
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^ cool thx for clearing that up buddy, dis-info is not cool |
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Posted : Oct 5, 2011 17:38
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So i guess we must lock this misleading topic and then delete it after 24 hours in order not to give the wrong impression to the people 
Toodaloo Motherfuckers!!!!! |
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