At 04:26 AM 8/3/2005, you wrote:
Steve - Yeah, as said before, it was my neglect of checking things out
completely before using their music. I never denied that. One reason I
feel funny about others helping me out with the bill! I just "assumed"
several things... and went to their site based on recommendations from
other websites for "free" music. I just wanted to post a warning
because I've seen others of you use it, and wondered, do any of you
really pay $25/song/year? I guess I thought maybe I was
misunderstanding the terms because I can't see anyone paying that who
is just using it for fun. Anyway, if any of you were ignorant like me,
now you know! :) Thanks Steve.
Erin....How many tracks have you used in your video blog to be hit up for $200? I only use the one for my open and close and a 30 second cut of another for my political rant (and even that is only when I have one). Also, did they hit you up for past violations or did they just say something like "Give us $200 and you can use all the tracks you have on every video blog post you want for a whole year" and call it even?
--- In [email protected], "Steve Watkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Your complacency seems misplaced to me.
It may be Steve, but the definition of the word "free" in almost any dictionary is pretty self-explanatory. In this context, it basically means you don't have to pay for whatever it is you are using.
> Freeplay site clearly includes the following under uses that must be
> paid for:
[snip...]
> 8. Personal Website Use (Non-Commercial)
A Blogger page would qualify as this.
> 12. Podcasting /Blog Use
Well then, the music *ain't* free. So they should stop calling themselves "Free Play Music" because *it isn't*.
> Then Freeplay Music requires a signed license agreement and a license
> fee payment as described in the Freeplay Music Rate Card.
That brings about the question as to how much the card costs.
> Then on the fees page it says:
>
> Podcasting and Blogs
> $25.00 per Freeplay Music title for 12 months.
Fine then. So I shell out $50 to cover the whole year retroactive to last April or so. No real biggie (but no thrill either).
I think it's quite clear that they need to have someone on their staff on both this group and the podcasters group available to explain just exactly what the options are. They also need to change their name of their site to something that's a little more accurate in the description of their content as the word "free" would be a poor choice of words to describe what they offer.
On top of that, I think this is yet another reason why the music industry needs to get its collective head out of its f*ckin' collective a*s and realize we live in a digital age and that means that people *will* share their digital videos with family and friends *and* use the Internet as a means to deliver said content to said family & friends via such things as websites and blogs. As such, the labels need to either accept this fact as reality or *get the f*ck out of the way and make way for labels who *are* willing to accept it.
But alas, like all other rants before the one above, it's pretty much a certainty that it'll fall on deaf ears when it comes to those in the music industry. :-(
Just my opinion...
> Cheers
Pat Cook
Denver, Colorado
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