btw, this topic should currently not be posted in any more public places. As said, the gema is not yet on the hunt, i also doubt they'll ever start doing it. But by providing false or personally interpreted information we're not going to get much further in the situation.
ronny >I think there's quite a bit of misinformation going on there. As far as >i know Thinner wasn't contacted nor warned by the GEMA. Sebastian was aware of >these circumstances and due to the recent GEMA developments on the digital >domain he doesn't want to take any risks. > >It's currently not the situation that the GEMA is hunting netlabels in order >to shoot them down. I doubt they'll ever have the internal capacities to >handle it like this. If you were member of the GEMA for many years with >several requests such as i had, you know that the left hand doesn't know what >the right hand's up to there. > >Netlabel owners have to watch out and prepare themselves. Clear the situation >between you and your artists. > >Now for the important part. > >IF YOU'RE GEMA MEMBER AND NETLABEL ARTIST THERE'S SOMETHING YOU CAN DO TO >IMPROVE THE SITUATION IF YOU WANT TO KEEP YOUR TRACKS ONLINE. > >You can restrict your membership contract by limiting it to physically >reproduced media only. This means that only "hard" media will be taken into >credit by the GEMA. I was about to limit my contract this way in >correspondence with GEMA authorities but decided to quit anyway. > > >Last not least i think we as Artists and netlabel owners should RISE AND >PROTEST. It can't be that we have to suffer under an ancient system that keeps >looking backwards. I believe that every artist should have the right to decide >how his copyrights are being handled and i regard the situation as is as >inacceptable. > >Join the chant. > >Ronny > >>This just dropped into my inbox from the netaudio group, directed to >>netlabel owners: >><snip> >>================= >>The German Institution GEMA www.gema.de (German equivalent to RIAA) >>will NOT allow GEMA Acts on Netlabels for free, because they will bill >>your DOWNLOADS (12,5 european Cent per Download) for their protecting >>rights, because these Acts are members of the GEMA organisation. >> >>To all Netlabels of Switzerland: >>ask your SUISA Organisation, if you have the rights to offer >>downloadiong tracks of SUISA members. >>I think, they have similar rules like the German Organisation GEMA. >> >>Thinner was the first Netlabel, they receive a warning from GEMA, so >>read this on mnml.nl: >> >>http://www.mnml.nl/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=10615 >><http://www.mnml.nl/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=10615> >> >>Ask your Acts, if they are registered members of the German >>Institution GEMA. If yes, its the only way to sell this stuff for a >>minimum price on internet (on your pages/shop section, Beatport etc.) >>and announce/register this tracks with GEMA) or to delete it. >> >>Its only allowed to stream Stuff of GEMA Members on the Original Page. >> >>Its also NOT allowed to offer some "Promo" DJ-Mixes or Podcasts with >>GEMA Stuff in it (without registration to GEMA). >> >>Here are (sorry, only in German) a good information site about music >>rights on internet: >>http://irights.de/index.php?id=461 <http://irights.de/index.php?id=461> >>http://www.urheberrecht.org/news/ <http://www.urheberrecht.org/news/> >><snip> >> >>....................................ugh. >> >> jeff >>
