[linux-audio-user] The MySpace terms for content

[Folderol]

On Sun, 7 May 2006 01:48:51 -0400
Rob <lau at kudla.org> wrote:

> On Sun May 7 2006 01:28, Lee A. Azzarello wrote:
> > other local Brooklyn bands. Because of this license they can
> > release the compilation album and sell it from a "sublicencee"
> > company without notifying the bands who composed or performed
> > the music. They own this product through and through. The
> > bands might not be entitled to a percentage of the profit
> > unless they or their laywers get involved. That's the point.
> 
> And what I'm saying is that I think they and their sublicencees 
> would have to only distribute said album through myspace.com in 
> order to satisfy the "on or through the Service" part of the 
> terms.  But I guess it's ambiguous enough that it'd have to go 
> to court, and lord only knows they'll change it again before 
> that happens.
> 
> Rob

I think the bottom line is that, whatever the fine details are, anyone
who wants to retain a semblance of control over their creative work
should avoid this organisation like it were the plague.

I have looked at their home page twice now. I will NEVER go there
again, unless someone tells me they think they have seen some of my
work on there.

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F