I like the concept of a "Copyrighted Material limited Use Fee" I know I'm willing to pay to download music from one site or another for a nominal fee. If I like the CD I'm still gonna go out and buy it at Sam Goody or Tower so I can get the cool cover art and lyrics, photos etc.
If I'm willing to do that then It stands to reason that I'd be willing to pay a yearly subscription fee of a reasonable amount to a site that would allow limited use of material by more famous musicians, film-makers, etc. How realistic is it that the "Big Guys" would ever do this? Not likely at all unles the faceless masses bring it to somebody's attention....come to think of it... do we have a "Vlog Lobby"? Lisa >From: "Deirdre Straughan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com >To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com >Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Re: Top Ten Vlogging Mistakes >Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:19:57 +0100 > >On 3/15/06, Caution Zero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > - > > which seems to me to be "since there isn't enough good > > CC music in the world, the law should let me take > > whatever i want from whomever i want", and that is > > conceptually problematic. > > >I don't expect the law ever to do that, nor would I consider it fair. >Artists have a right to decide how their music gets used. If and when >someone asks me to take down any of my videos because they don't like my >use >of their music, I will certainly do so, though I firmly believe that my use >is not doing the artists any harm and may even give them some useful >publicity (I tend to use music not currently popular). But of course they >would have the right to disagree with me. > >What I would like to see is a mechanism in place that any artist who wishes >to can participate in, which allows me to use music as stock photography is >used, as Gottadiva describes. The way things are now, it is prohibitively >expensive for everyone except the really big players to use the really big >music _legally_. I ran across an article a few months ago about the >problems >professional documentary filmmakers have with music in their films, even >when the music occurs "naturally" in the environment they're filming, e.g. >a >ringtone. > >All that said, I just did a count and find that I have around 70 videos >which involve no music except what was already there (e.g., sing-alongs at >home, parades and other public events). I have deliberately added music to >only 13 or so of my videos, and in most cases the music is mixed in with >the >original sound such that you could not strip it out and get a clean audio >track, and/or is edited. > > >"CC is a nascent movement; >of course it doesn't suit every need right now. but >the likelihood that CC could grow as a popular >movement into the sort of thing that suits your/our >needs is much greater in my opinion than the >likelihood that the united states congress is going to >suddenly have an a-ha moment, ignore entertainment >industry lobbying groups, and magically stop >repressing remix culture." > >Until Napster, there was little pressure on the music industry to lower its >prices (up to $30 for a single CD in Europe!) or improve its distribution >methods or even face the fact that a lot of people don't like so-called >popular music. Now there's a solution that I think everyone can agree on >(iTunes et al), but I doubt this solution would have arrived without >consumer pressure to let us have what we want, how we want it - and then >we're willing to pay a fair price for it. > >It seems to me the same could happen with remix culture. It shouldn't be >legal for people to use anything in any way they wish. But if the industry >and the artists were willing to meet us halfway... they might even find >whole new sources of revenue they never imagined. > > >-- >best regards, >Deirdré Straughan > >www.beginningwithi.com (personal) >www.tvblob.com (work) _________________________________________________________________ Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
