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| Thread ID: 101444 | 2009-07-15 10:18:00 | Cafes paying for music | limepile (96) | PC World Chat |
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| 791839 | 2009-07-15 10:18:00 | Tonight on Cambell live ( don't usually watch this ), there was an piece about cafes being stung with a bill to create ambience with music. Some group similar to APRA was billing them. One cafe owner thought that a good way round this is to play the radio. sadly she will find this isn't a way out. But I wondered if using music created and distributed under creative commons could be a way around this. Before someone jumps on me with the old "don't artists deserve to be paid " boring old argument...I believe that businesses like this promote music, I've bought music after hearing them played in shops and cafes. I just think that the old model isn't working. Some artists are happy to have their music played for free (Shona Lang springs to mind ), but we seem to be blanketed with this one size fits all law. Speaking of laws...interesting that section 92a is once again in the news. Heres a campaign to be proud of- blog.jamendo.com |
limepile (96) | ||
| 791840 | 2009-07-15 10:28:00 | Has nothing to do with the artists, In fact as far as I am aware they don't receive it unless they bill the company who collected it, and even then its very rare for an artist to own the rights to their music. | Metla (12) | ||
| 791841 | 2009-07-15 10:31:00 | Just another case of greedy big corporates extorting money. | qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 791842 | 2009-07-15 10:39:00 | Mostlly I find cafe music intrusive.There are at least three cafes, here in Wanganui, that we will not go into. I have hearing aids in both ears & the music is so loud that they both turn off. Having said that the local shopping mall does it sometimes as well.. I pity the generations younger than me for the loss of hearing they surely will have. I know about it at first hand. It makes for a lonely life, when you are not able to join in a group conversation. PJ. :groan: |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 791843 | 2009-07-15 10:42:00 | Yeah I know a nightclub owner who was sent a bill from ARPA. He rang them and said, "I don't deal with faceless companies who send me bills out of nowhere. You send a representative to see me and I'll consider paying your bill." Nobody ever showed up and to my knowledge he was never sent the bill again. |
Deane F (8204) | ||
| 791844 | 2009-07-15 10:56:00 | Yeah I know a nightclub owner who was sent a bill from ARPA. He rang them and said, "I don't deal with faceless companies who send me bills out of nowhere. You send a representative to see me and I'll consider paying your bill." Nobody ever showed up and to my knowledge he was never sent the bill again. good stuff |
GameJunkie (72) | ||
| 791845 | 2009-07-15 11:08:00 | If someone wanted to play my cd in a shop id be more than happy, any airtime has got to be good doesnt it? not that its about that at all, stupid greedy corporate **** | hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 791846 | 2009-07-15 11:40:00 | When you're eating in a cafe you'll only be listening to a few songs, and will get a taste of what you may like. If I remember correctly that's how I got to know and actually bought an album made by The Feelers, which I might add is an epic NZ band. | qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 791847 | 2009-07-15 16:11:00 | This has been the law here in the US for yarns now . "Ambient" or background music must be purchased, even if it's blatantly sappy elevator music ie: "You're Having My Baby" by The Hammer-n-Anvil Senior Anechoic Mens' Chorus, and can be heard in the place of business . Even if the guy who washes dishes in the back room has a radio tuned to music and it can be heard in the general service area, there must be a fee assessed and collected or the radio cops will bust ya . I tell youse guys and I tell youse guys over and over and youse still deny the happenstances: The US will mold (mould?) youse guys into submission to it's standards and there's not much youse guys can do about it . It's about M-O-N-E-Y . Money makes the world go 'round, Gov . I say eschew it all! I also suggest pulling up the gangplank, hoisting the Jolly Roger and filling your sails, sailing your tectonic plate to a new, uncharted area of the globe . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 791848 | 2009-07-15 19:45:00 | ... I also suggest pulling up the gangplank, hoisting the Jolly Roger and filling your sails, sailing your tectonic plate to a new, uncharted area of the globe.We'd love to, but we still gotta bring Australia along for the ride. :lol: No real advantage |
Myth (110) | ||
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