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Thijs (09-05-2013)
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23956750
The reason?
Dance record label Ministry of Sound is suing music streaming service Spotify, claiming Spotify playlists copy its compilation albums.
Ministry of Sound regularly releases collections of dance hits.
The compilations are not on Spotify, but the label says Spotify infringes copyright because some users' playlists mirror the albums' track listings.
Ministry of Sound said "a lot of research goes into" creating the compilations. Spotify did not comment.
lol Ministry of Sound, what a shame.
This wont get them anything, they have no case.
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I've read the article in Dutch yesterday. I remember the users themselves created those playlists, not spotify.
But why? I can make those playlists on youtube aswell.
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My thoughts exactly. I just find it a bit bizarre, that they've specifically and solely targeted Spotify with this issue. With copyright, it's always a grey area to discuss as a legal issue.
You cant' copyright a song order. If the songs are legally on spotify and it's legal to do playlists, then it's legal.
Compilation CDs have been pretty pointless for ever since online radio, mp3 mixtapes and sets came. If you really wanna do compilations you need to have exclusives, mashups, big creative transitions, something you can't get from anywhere else. Solarstone does this well with his compilations. The effort he puts on his compilations is hundred times more than what MOS does with their unmixed radio edits of big already known hits. They should just give up on this and try to licence their compilations to spotify themselves, so people wouldn't need to recreate them.
Thijs (09-05-2013)
Ministry of Sound....reaallllly?
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*ahem*
Excuse me while I sue some people for aligning their desktop icons in a manner similar to my own. After all I put a lot of thought and time into setting them so. The people even had the audacity to name them the same!
After this debacle I wouldn't give them a penny. The behaviour is pitiful.
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Unbelievable... Record labels are still with their heads in the early 90s
sry i cant add a constructive comment here, this is just too hillarious.
More info on this is available from the Guardian article linked within that of the BBC page. It answers some further Q's.
http://www.theguardian.com/technolog...d-sues-spotify
"We are looking at every service," he said.
"There are other services that have playlists, and when we have seen this happening – playlists using Ministry of Sound's name – when we have notified them, they have willingly taken them down. It's only against Spotify that we've hit this brick wall."
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That comment about a lot of effort going into them is ridiculous...yes, we had to dig real hard to find this unknowns like Calvin Harris, Guetta & Avicii...
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