Police officers in Norfolk, Virginia, raided a record store called Dappa Don Clothing Company in March, confiscating several thousand dollars’ worth of mixtapes and charging the store’s owner with illegally “selling certain recorded devices.”
The raid was the latest in a nationwide crackdown on retailers who sell mixtapes – collections of hip-hop songs that DJ’s remix to create new tracks – and it comes less than a year after New York police officers seized hundreds of mixtapes and arrested five employees at an East Village record store, Mondo Kim’s.
After the Mondo Kim’s raid, Brad Buckles, a Recording Industry Association of America executive, declared, “Retailers who are making money on the backs of musicians and record companies by selling pirated CD’s should know that this is absolutely no way to conduct a business.”
That sounds reasonable enough. Illegal products should not be sold. But it’s disingenuous for the recording industry to compare hip-hop mixtapes to a bootleg recording of, say, a Dave Matthews Band concert. After all, mixes aren’t bootlegs at all – they’re advertisements.
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Arnt dj remixes legal since they significantly alter the original music???
I doubt it! Even the beat itself is copyrighted!
If you make sound the RIAA wants money from it. Otherwise you are stealing the sound.
I am going to RIP A HUGE MASSIVE FART.
The check’s in the mail Glickman!
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“Mixes aren’t bootlegs at all – they’re advertisements”.
I couldn’t agree more hell a Kelly Clarkston’s “Since you’ve been gone” remix is the first track on cd1 on the ministry of sound’s U.S. version of The Annual 2006 a typical move most likely on the riaa’s part for a pretty advertisement.
As for mr. Buckles he really doesn’t know jack for bootlegs mixes dubs or edits. For him a “remix” is what you would see on the back of a Lindsey Lohan cd as a “bonus track” at the end of the album. The guy needs to take a trip to the electronic section of a tower records of listen to a few thousand tiestos van buurens and pvds before pointing a finger at bootlegs and mixes yelling “PIRACY!” just my thoughts on it.