Interesting,
In the past I worked for the PRS, and they will license you to play
any music at your garden fete or in a shop in the UK.
The internet has another type of problem because the laws are for
each territory... hence the fact that the BBC cannot get agreement to
broadcast everything to all their listeners in any part of the world.
If they don't have the right to air their own material except under
certain conditions, ie. in the UK they cannot rebroadcast after seven
days, then it would be a nightmare for a mere mortal to re-broadcast
anything under present laws, or even to get the correct licenses.
The iPodders have already come up against the same legal minefield.
In the US it is almost impossible to gain agreement and licenses,
five to date, to legally distribute copyrighted material on the net
or in a Podcast.
Virgin radio in the UK are the only company that I know who can
distribute their shows and actually publicise a world wide audience.
People are now turning to non copyrighted material instead. Similar
to an open license contract.
The same thing happened in advertising a few years ago.... originally
actors in the adverts got a repeat fee every time the ad was
played .... now they just get a buy out. The music business will
eventually have to settle for the same fee structure with music.
Richard
On 5 Aug 2005, at 13:37, Graeme Mulvaney wrote:
This debate makes me laugh;
It was started when the head of ITNs' new media dept. announced the
release of an applet that circumvents the BBCs' attempts at DRM,
and has turned into an attack on the BBCs' reluctance to share its'
copyrighted material.
I've had a mooch around the ITN site and they don't seem to be
making any of their content freely available ? If thisn't the case,
then could somebody publish a link that we could play with.
The BBC are pioneering a broadcasting paradigm with Backstage - no
other broadcaster is actively encouraging developers to re-purpose
their information, you should give them a break.
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