[cma-l] prs / ppl / copyright

[Office - ccr-fm]

Dear All

 

I ain't getting embroiled in the rights and wrongs and too-ings and fro-ings
of copyright .... I don't understand it ?         :-(

 

What I do know though is this ...  it's a money making racket and a sham.
The Law should be against people who use the music for financial profitable
gain, whilst at the same time not paying for it.

 

If Fred Bloggs the songwriter, writes a song and Engelbert Humperdinck
wishes to release it as a potential hit ... then Mr Hump' pays that guy his
dues ... he then releases it through the usual channels (record companies,
publishers etc)           and hopefully sells the song.

 

If I like it .... I buy it, if I don't like it, I don't buy it .........
once I give him the money and buy it, it then belongs to me. I can do what
the hell I want with it .. Play it, dance on it, sit on it, use it as a
plate, a bird scarer, a frisbee ...... as long as I have purchased it and
not RIPPED IT OFF / STOLEN IT, then I see no legalities to be had !

 

If he and Elton John, Sting, Paul Weller, Robbie Williams song writer don't
want me to use it ..... don't sell it me, don't bother writing the song in
the first place, in fact, simply go and work in M&S and do something
different.

But alas ... They don't do this, they want their cake and eat it.

 

Furthermore ..  this business of a retrieval system or re-recording on a
database . most of it is done to save what the customer / purchaser has,
so's not to lose it, and not for sinister reasons. THEY actually want you to
only have one copy, spill tea on it and then go and buy it again.

 

I apologise for writing in such a dire way, but these ladies and gentlemen
are the facts ..... It's a money making racket !                     then
you get the leaches and parasites jumping on the bandwaggon who are also
after a butty or two.

 

The whole thing is a bleedin' joke but well thought out by    whoever ?
back in the 1930's

 

The music is put up for market, someone buys it ..... no crime there ...
they play it ..... no crime there either ..... However, this is the crux of
the matter

If it is played to an audience for financial gain, then perhaps there is a
case for a little tickle. If it is stored or played out to individuals /
people for NO financial gain, then there is no crime either.

 

The crime is in the theft.

 

Community Radio buys the music / or gets promos. We play it not for
financial gain (NO PROFITS) (read the rules)    we store it, because we have
to or else we can't do what we do ....    WE PROMOTE IT

 

They should be bloody paying us !    not us paying them              or at
least call it quits

 

It's pathetic

 

A money making racket                   be told !

 

Regards

 

Nick

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