From Anthony Ewers Sent Fri, Oct 31st 1997, 23:03
From Anthony Ewers Sent Fri, Oct 31st 1997, 23:03
On Fri, 31 Oct <xxxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx> wrote:- >If you are re-producing music that is STILL in >print you are cheating the artists and all those involved out of their due >royalties. In the UK this applies even if its not in print, copyright resides with the composer of a work for 70 years after their death. >I (being a musician myself) get throughly pissed at you people >for saturating the market with your bootlegs. Since electronic based >musicians are not exactly selling millions of copies (except for a few >artists) of their work, every penny counts. This is their living. They >don't make a hell of a lot off of the sales of their work unless they own >their own label or distribute it themselves. Labels tend to take the larger >percentage of the profit from the sales. LTJ Bukem's manager is allegedly looking to sue stores & bootlegers who sell/produce bootlegs of Good Looking releases. However bootlegs as in unauthorised (re)mixes of tunes (I've heard many better than the original) can give a record or an artist status, although I think most record companies hate this sort of thing, there are artists who don't mind it. The truth is bootlegs offer a kind of reach or publicity to artists who otherwise might not get their music heard/bought i.e. if you buy a bootleg of someones first album & like it you might buy a legit copy of their future releases. The flipside is that in China piracy is *BIG* business, a few 2 billion a year! >The bottom line is you're >stealing something that you have no right to. This problem is only going to >get bigger and bigger as the technology permits this type of theft. I agree. The same could be said for uncleared samples, especially when they go into making songs which turn out to be big hits, and where the original artist earns nothing. People get ripped of all the time in music, and in all aspects of what is after all a dodgey business. I guess CD burning is analoguous to making a recording onto traditional audio cassette, and people do each other tapes all the time. Just a few thoughts... ------------------------------------------------------------------ Future By Design, 14 Cobbold Street, c/o Anthony Ewers, Ipswich, Tel/Fax: +44-(0)1473-412584 Suffolk, e-mail: xxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxxxx.xx.xx IP4 2DN, Progressive Music For The Mind, Body & Soul ENGLAND. ------------------------------------------------------------------