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Originally Posted by JamieLewis
If you are not paying royalty payments to the artist/record company then you are committing an offense under most countries laws.
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This is over simplified. It's true 80 % of the time, but not always.
It's amazing I can remember this from my past, but you can "bootleg" any Grateful Dead recording you could ever want to. No royalties involved, because the band, the artists, the content creators, gave their permission. Security knocked people out for bringing tape recorders to Led Zepplin concerts, and charges weren't filed most of the time.
On that note, you can download Caught in a Hustle by Immortal Technique, free from his web site. You can buy two of his albums there, but he's also freely given permission ( in one of his songs no less) for the general public to download his music from the internet and expose people to it, or at least the ideas contained in it. The man owns the label he releases his music through, so he does in fact have rights to his own songs, to be able to give them away.
Most of the time mp3 downloads are illegal if there isn't payment made to the rights holder, which is usually Sony BMG or some other company and NOT The Beatles or Michael Jackson. But not always. |
