[cc-community] AKM go against a live license
Jamison Young
info at freetrain.org
Fri Oct 17 17:01:03 EDT 2008
> I think something that needs to be made perfectly clear is that no other
> music
> (music that needed a license) was played at that location that night,
> (ever?)
> live or recorded. (Is that perhaps their concern?)
The space has no speakers/sound system, and the songs i create were the only
songs that aired in that space on that night.
The amount of people that were at the show was about 10-12 and after i
played a set i went down the road and performed again in a pub that pays no
fee for live music. Yet that gig was underground. The difference was that
this performance was advertised to the public.
Here is a link to a video clip that was made on the night.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=048vxYSnqmI
AKM sent me an email telling me that the only way that my songs could be
free in any space in Austria was if I instructed ASCAP to stop collecting
for the use of any of the tunes on all levels within the walls of Austria.
You can read the mail i sent out to the Austrian mailing list at this
link... http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-at/2008/000037.html
consider also:: When i was not with a rights organizations, AKM kept on
billing the spaces i played in anyway, they even lied to one venue and told
them that i had joined OSA, the Czech rights organizations. I aksed AKM to
refund the space and appologise for their mistake, yet they never did. AKM
don't want to give the message to any live music space, that music can be
free. Music is like hotwater and anyone that says otherwise, shall be put on
ice.
Not sure what the solution is, yet maybe this is a warning for CC, stay
clear of all rights organizations? They are only ever going to re-shuffle
things into the same thing, until they have eaten themselves to death. Is it
worth the effort? Artists best understand the reality of a CC license and
also the reality of the rights organizations, who is going to tell the
artists?
Jamison
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