gawker.com — Fresh off a court victory against Google's YouTube, ASCAP tells us it is setting its sights on users of the video-sharing site. Welcome to the exciting world of copyright licensing, blogger; you may already owe gobs of money!
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wassamattaJul 9, 2009
I meant #15And I am on the fence on ascap. I know some electronic artist that get those royalty checks from ascap for radio play.If they weren't around to collect that money, you think radio stations owned by greedy corporations will pay the artists?I doubt it. As for this ringtone s**t... absurd.And youtube... the author of the video should pay the royalties for allowing the embed to happen in the first place. Not the blogger. I am sick of seeing people rip music they don't own and use it in a video....and not bother to credit the artist either. If you are using it for a pet video... fine. but if you are youtube partner... you should be paying those royalties as that is commercial use.
woollymittensJul 9, 2009
bmatherlyjr, your random characters name confirms to me that you're just a troll, but anyway:Ascap seems to have time enough to police the internet for Youtube videos. Why don't they simply ask Google to remove the infringing videos instead of harassing people who embed them in good faith? This to counter your own flawed logic.
exspasticcomicsJul 9, 2009
we'll just---- sue the entire PLANET!remember kids the golden rule of law! the person with the most money.. wins!
candidatezeroJul 9, 2009
"You may already owe gobs of money!"f**k that. I'd like to see these goddamn ****s****rs try to apply this s**t retroactively. "Over the last three years, when this current legality didn't exist, you embedded 122 videos on your blog. Give us $14,000 dollars."Wouldn't happen.
candidatezeroJul 9, 2009
I wonder who here would viciously slash open the throats of these bastards if they knew they could get away with it. Immoral and cold-blooded, but such a satisfying fantasy.
knopper67Jul 10, 2009
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krusheasyJul 10, 2009
---Jason just posted this update ---I just spoke with ASCAP on the phone.... this is not a big deal. They want us to pay a $200 for videos that might come up in our search or that our users might post. We can simply tell them to send us a DMCA notice and we'll take them down, or they can simple tell YouTube to take the videos down here: <a class="user" href="http://www.youtube.com/t/dmca_policy">http://www.youtube.com/t/dmca_policy</a> We respect copyright, but we also hope that folks respect our ability to provide a navigational search engine. We are not hosting the music in question--YouTube is. As such, we shouldn't be targeted by ASCAP. If ASCAP insists on pushing this issue with Mahalo or other bloggers we should all simply not embed videos anymore. Instead we can launch a new window with all YouTube videos. This will provide a slight inconvenience to users (i.e. the popup), but ASCAP said if it's not embedded they don't care. <a class="user" href="http://www.mahalo.com/answers/mahalo-answers-community/should-mahalo-pay-public-performance-royalties-as-users-videos-should-jason-calacanis-pay-up-as-said-in-the-video">http://www.mahalo.com/answers/mahalo-answers-commu ...</a>