Washington Post Vs RIAA

Updated on Tuesday, January 8, 2008 at 01:50PM by Cheevo

I am pretty late to the game on this one, but thought I would at least comment on it a little. This Washington Post article published last Sunday basically says the RIAA is now taking the stance that copying legally purchased music to your computer is, in thier view. a violation of copyright law. The reporter excerpted a legal filing from the RIAA in a lawsuit filed against a Scottsdale, Ariz. man "who kept a collection of about 2,000 music recordings on his personal computer, the industry maintains that it is illegal for someone who has legally purchased a CD to transfer that music into his computer."

Well there was quite a bit of uproar, and if it was true, there should be.

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Kicking off 08

Happy New Year.

In the new year I hope to really get this thing going so stay tuned!

 I have a lot going on.

The record label, AMP Recordings that I co-own and run with my dear pal Mark Bunce is up and running now. We face quite a few challenges. First, most of the music what we put out is not written by the performers. You know what this means - Mechanicals! Most of what I do lately seems to be chasing down copyright holders and setting up mechanical releases. This can be as easy as doing some Internet searches and clearing mechanicals on Harry Fox.com with a credit card, or as time consuming as tracking down copyright holders at their home address and setting up deals for mechanical rights. A big challenge is setting up mechanicals for Digital Down Loads. I will post a separate article regarding this in the near future.

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