From kurt Sent Fri, Oct 8th 1999, 18:23
From kurt Sent Fri, Oct 8th 1999, 18:23
>>While the cops >& copyright boogeymen are obviously well within their rights to do this, >it goes to show that they really have no grasp on the culture they're >trying to regulate. As one DJ quoted in the story noted, most of the tapes >feature rare, exclusive and unreleased mixes & tracks and are basically >free publicity for the artists that are featured. Oh come on. yeah, there might be something important to the evolution of musical culture that's possible with the easy distribution of mix tapes, but by the time it comes down to a tape getting sold for real money at a real store, you gotta have agreements with all the artists whose work you are reproducing. If they think the "free publicity" is so great, they'll happily give their permission for you to use it, otherwise, they might want to be paid their share or at least control the context and distribution of their work. sounds like a lot of bother, I'm sure, but so is producing original music. k