James_B;225001 Wrote: > Its a free Pandora clone that is apparently legal... plus it works in > Europe ;)
Well, legal in respect of SonyBMG music, or in respect of artists' royalties (played in France). Universal are taking a different view at the moment. http://french-law.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=68&Itemid=1 The problem with Deezer is the same one highlighted by Pandora as a reason they are finding it difficult to expand over here - there isn't a central European body who can deal with artists' and label royalties. At the moment, Deezer only plays royalties to SACEM (Society for the Collective Management of Copyright Royalties) in France. It's not clear at the moment if/how SACEM has granted a licence to broadcast internationally or Europe wide - normally licences are done on a strict territory by territory basis and I've certainly never heard of a Europe-wide one before. It has shades of the AllofMP3 argument about it - a licence for a particular territorial jurisdiction, but allows use outside the terms of that licence by default. As a result, a lot of people are speculating that Deezer will need to be limited to French-based IP addresses in the near future. -- Siduhe ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38159 _______________________________________________ squeezenetwork mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/squeezenetwork
