At 01:07 PM 27/01/03 -0800, Jim Emery wrote: >And to get back to a concrete example, let's say I create a slideshow, add >a song from iTunes and put it up on .Mac. This is pretty simple using >iApps but I do not believe it would protect the audio track from being >exported and copied. If the file is set up for streaming delivery, >is this sufficient to prevent the slideshow and audio track being copied?
Doesn't matter if the music can be extracted and copied or not (and it can), or whether it's free or being sold, the slideshow is a derivative work, streaming is publishing, so this is an infringement. Drivers can be busted for playing a radio in a taxi: <http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_721008.html> "Finland's Supreme Court has ruled taxi drivers must pay royalty fees if they play music in their car while a customer is in the backseat." Another celebrated case in 1996, payments were demanded from Girl Guides for singing campfire songs (though later they backed down): <http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/communications/ASCAP.html> "... notifying the nation's 8,000-odd summer camps that federal copyright law requires them to fork over fees to ASCAP for any songs they use. " Though in the past, small infringements weren't pursued, now there are automated systems trolling the web looking for infringements. <http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,64688,00.html> "While most of the works identified in Exhibit 1 appear to be songs featuring George Harrison .... the notice further objects to a file entitled "Portrait of mrs. harrison Williams 1943.jpg." Recent work has been done on audio fingerprinting of music, so some time soon every media file you put up will be indexed. <http://161.58.5.90/robocop/trouble.wav> (Of course this file is itself probably a violation.) -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
