Hi Mike, its not 'live' streaming, but it is streaming alright. Archive or no archive.
I think if you followed the discussions around Google Books, or Google News 'just an archive of books / news' I think you realize pretty quickly that rights-owners can be a little stubborn about this. -- rgds, Reinier Battenberg Director Mountbatten Ltd. +256 758 801 749 www.mountbatten.net On Friday 30 July 2010 11:39:28 Mike Barnard wrote: > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Reinier Battenberg < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The best to do is to read Paul's statements on the i-network list. He is > > the > > laywer. > > > > Few remarks nevertheless: > > > > the fact that others are doing wrong, is no excuse to do wrong yourself. > > That > > goes for anything. As an excuse it will never hold up in court. > > > > Sites that stream music owned by others and didnt pay, have been shut > > down or > > come to an agreement with the industry before (like last.fm which is now > > a paid service)So there are example cases of the music industry being > > unhappy about sites like this. > > correction.. Badru is not streaming music, he is simply providing an > archive of what has been broadcasted by different radio stations. That is > different from streaming an artists music. > > > Thing is, you are on the internet. You are broadcasting anywhere in the > > world. > > Again, this is not a broadcast... its an archive. The same way that I would > archive all news papers from 2000 to date and provide an interface for one > to read them. > > > (i think i read the new text of the new copyright law, as it was posted > > to i- > > network earlier in the year, and i think this law caters for a body that > > collects money like the UK Performance Rights body you mention. Dig in > > the archives i'd recommend. or, again, ask paul) > > Is it possible to get this extract from the I-Network archives and post it > here. it would be interesting to see the interpretation of the lawyer. _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
