Actually guys (whether it's the law or not I don't know) PRS etc. do have a rule relating to this one - that it's OK for online record sellers to use clips but they must be a maximum of 30 secs long - which is why people like Piccadilly have had to cut their clips from the 1 min+ they used to be after I think the PRS people contacted them (I know smaller online sellers still have longer clips but maybe they're just further down the list!), think they might have to pay a fee to do this also - can anyone from a shop expand on this? Those people (PRS) never miss a thing - for example did you know that record shops also have to pay a fee to PRS just for playing CDs in the shop on the basis that it's entertaining people (even though it's publicising the CD right in the place where people are most likely to buy it), hairdressers, restaurants etc. are also supposed to pay for having music on. And of course the worst thing about it all is that all the independent artists never get to see a penny of this money being collected on their behalf's. I used to think that it all went to the big artists but then a few years back U2 took PRS to court for the right to collect their own cash as even they weren't seeing it - it was mostly being used for fat cat PRS offices in Paris (or something like that)!
Francis -----Original Message----- From: Brendan Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 August 2004 11:29 To: 313 Subject: RE: (313) P2P > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Dust [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 11 August 2004 11:30 > > > > Juno, Piccadilly and other online record shops can't host clips of > > tracks any more, for one... > > Why B? I was just pointing out the sorts of things that would change if hosting low-quality segments of copyrighted musical works online was absolutely outlawed. Effectively, part of a track appearing as part of an mp3 mix is no different to part of a track appearing as a preview clip on a record shop's website. Neither is anything like the equivalent of *owning* a track, which is why I reckon that hosting mp3 mixes online isn't a bad thing... (..so long as the site hosting the mixes isn't money-making and every effort is taken to provide full tracklist info, of course!) Brendan
