On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 03:32:15AM -0800, Khuli wrote:
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|I imagine (in Russia at least) it falls under the typical site copyright
|agreements which tend to only cost $300 or so per year.
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|eg. http://www.ascap.com/weblicense/feecalculation.html
|
|So I bet they do pay copyright, just not the amount you might expect
|from a site that sells (rather than merely playing) music.
In fact the suggestion is they pay an amount analogous to what a broadcaster
might pay. Of course they're not broadcasting as such. The loophole such
as it is is that Russian copyright law in this area is designed to prevent
piracy as an act of distributing physical media, not just the contents of
said media.
More details here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/07/allofmp3-com_let_off/
and indeed if you search their site for allofmp3 you'll see their articles
goin back to the most recent attempt by Sony to shut the site down earlier
this year. Sony... now where have I heard _that_ name recently...
For the record, I've dealt with allofmp3 for a while now and they seem OK.
Their selection of material is heavily slanted to Europe and possibly
eastern Europe at that, but their back catalogue of middle aged popular
music is OK (say 80's, 90's, etc.) Of course I'm one of those who wonders
how much of the usual ASCAP type money actually makes it back to the artists
from the record companies that collect it too... so my compunctions about
potentially depriving some record exec of his monthly nose candy allowance
are kinda low.
E.
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