Never heard of SIRA? That’s the way Big Copyright and their lackey’s want it, and it’s bad news for you.
Simply put, SIRA fundamentally redefines copyright and fair use in the digital world. It would require all incidental copies of music to be licensed separately from the originating copy. Even copies of songs that are cached in your computer’s memory or buffered over a network would need yet another license. Once again, Big Copyright is looking for a way to double-dip into your wallet, extracting payment for the same content at multiple levels.
Today, so-called “incidental” copies don’t need to be licensed; they’re made in the process of doing *other* things, like listening to your MP3 library or plugging into a Net radio station. If you paid for the MP3 and the radio station is up-to-date with its bookkeeping, nobody should have to pay again, right? Not if SIRA becomes law. Out of the blue, copyright holders would have created an entire new market to charge for — and sue over. Good for them. Bad for us.
Don’t let Big Copyright legalize double dipping. Fight SIRA today.
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Il make a guess here was this bill created and being pushed by senator Orin Hatch? Have fun down there in the states your liberties are what the corporations deem acceptable for their bottom line.
Danny O. Brien posted: “Whether you should get paid for every listen or not this is far more radical than that. It means that the music industry (not musicians) can sue someone if they don’t pay them each time a song is *temporarily stored* on the way to the listener. That means they could charge the listener once the ISP once (for caching the song) then threaten to sue the manufacturer of the media player for enabling unlicensed infringement by temporarily storing the song on the drive and so on. Think that sounds bizarre? Check XM lawsuit for how the RIAA clamps down on new ways of getting your music heard.
This isn’t about musicians right to theoretical cashflows – no artist will ever get to see any cash from the RIAA suing new tech companies or claiming in court that every cached copy requires prior authorisation from their members. This about the existing recording industry cutting off the oxygen to competing forms of media distribution.”
This is going to have huge impacts to many leave it stupid greedy politicians to *uck up everything!
when this bill dies like most bills it will be good evidece against the **AAs in a monoply lawsuit or whatever you can nail them for
What a joke. This would be symbolic at most. Even if passed how on earth could it be enforced? This would take a heck of a lot of monitoring. Makes no sense. Won’t fly. But we should still fight it any way. Just for the principle as they say.
i didnt read the bill but if i wanted to make this bill i could have just said 3 words to sum this thing up
no. fair. use.