Podcasting and Blogs
$25.00 per Freeplay Music title for 12 months.
If you plan on archiving any content, be prepared to pay $25 for each year
your stuff lives on the 'Net. If you would like to pay less per year, they
offer 3, 5, and 7-year licenses as well.
-David
>From: "Pat Cook (Jeeper One TV)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Re: Freeplay Music: Warning
>Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 22:16:54 -0600
>
>Hi everyone:
>
>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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