2 People Are Speaking Their Mind

1. Kimian111 Says:

   April 28th, 2009 at 8:54 pm

   I agree. There are countless videos on you tube taken by audience members who were given permission both by the concert hall as well as the performers. My choir, performed Carmina Burana and we asked an audience member to video tape our performance. The video was then uploaded to You Tube, along with many many many other performances of the work. Shortly after I uploaded the video, I, being one of the performers and the one who arranged for the permission to record, received a copyright infringement notice by the publisher of the music score from which we rehearsed. We paid plenty for the music score and the right to perform it. You tube promptly removed the video and slapped me with one of three warnings before my account would be cancelled. Now, to fight it, we must go through litigation, where the publishing company did nothing but assume we were infringing as viola, we’re gone.

2. Mark Simmons Says:

   October 30th, 2009 at 6:30 pm

   Surely anyclaims over copyright have to be based on financial value.

   If someone passes off championship coverage as being official material then its a copyright violation.

   But given that the game in question got less than 90 seconds of coverage, can the football league or the BBC claim a legitimate copyright violation?

   Surely there will come a day when the football league realise that such engagement from their customer base is worth half a million pounds of advertising . Until that day they would well to realise that for every “wet by hind the ears” media graduate they employ to make such ridiculous decisions they could employ two experienced marketing professionals that could bring a real “value for money” case against such a ridiculous knee-jerk reaction.

   Sorry did i say “value for money” – I meant common sense.