Rights issue dogs CD protection – A dispute over royalty rights on copy-protected CDs and other types of music discs is helping to stall the release of some new music technology, and could result in record labels owing tens of millions of dollars in back payments to music publishers.
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This interpretation seems to rely on the same logic that the RIAA used to shut down services such as my.mp3.com – that digitizing a copy into MP3 or other digital format actually creates a second copy, upon which royalties must be paid. Interestingly enough, the labels seem to be using an argument similar to the “format shifting” that was used previously by some of the pioneering online services.
bq. From a legal standpoint, the position of the music publishers is that these discs contain two separate (copies of each song),” said Cary Ramos, an attorney representing the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA). “The fact that they are the same recording doesn’t mean that we should treat it as one.
p. The article actually goes on to mention what has to be the RIAA’s number one actual competition: DVD’s.
bq. Similarly, on some Super Audio Compact Discs (SACD), a high-fidelity format sold in many record stores, ordinary CD-quality audio versions of songs are also included, so that the discs can be played in car stereos and other older players. Even hybrid DVDs are hitting markets, with such features as the entire soundtrack for a movie included along with the film itself. This may be more convenient for consumers, but it worries publishers and songwriters. Their livelihoods have relied on people buying versions of their songs in multiple formats–once on a DVD, and again on the soundtrack album, for example. They’re worried that their income will be substantially reduced if people are able to buy a disc that combines multiple formats.
p. Considering how many “Official Soundtracks” that I’ve seen released versus simply new albums, and how important that has likely been for the record labels bottom line, I would think that this possibility would be the scariest of all – what if people no longer have to buy the soundtrack since it comes with the DVD automatically (and is backwards compatible with your CD player was well?)
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Rights issue dogs CD protection – [ “(extlink)News.com”:http://www.news.com ]
This interpretation seems to rely on the same logic that the RIAA used to shut down services such as my.mp3.com – that digitizing a copy into MP3 or other digital format actually creates a second copy, upon which royalties must be paid. Interestingly enough, the labels seem to be using an argument similar to the “format shifting” that was used previously by some of the pioneering online services.
bq. From a legal standpoint, the position of the music publishers is that these discs contain two separate (copies of each song),” said Cary Ramos, an attorney representing the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA). “The fact that they are the same recording doesn’t mean that we should treat it as one.
p. The article actually goes on to mention what has to be the RIAA’s number one actual competition: DVD’s.
bq. Similarly, on some Super Audio Compact Discs (SACD), a high-fidelity format sold in many record stores, ordinary CD-quality audio versions of songs are also included, so that the discs can be played in car stereos and other older players. Even hybrid DVDs are hitting markets, with such features as the entire soundtrack for a movie included along with the film itself. This may be more convenient for consumers, but it worries publishers and songwriters. Their livelihoods have relied on people buying versions of their songs in multiple formats–once on a DVD, and again on the soundtrack album, for example. They’re worried that their income will be substantially reduced if people are able to buy a disc that combines multiple formats.
p. Considering how many “Official Soundtracks” that I’ve seen released versus simply new albums, and how important that has likely been for the record labels bottom line, I would think that this possibility would be the scariest of all – what if people no longer have to buy the soundtrack since it comes with the DVD automatically (and is backwards compatible with your CD player was well?)