EDM 613 MAC Week 1 Response to Peers @Jacqueline

Good Copy Bad Copy confirmed that there is an active conversation about copyright. That is a good thing. I have to share a true story with you. I lived in Ghana (West Africa) for three years where I managed an international Jazz club. We paid an annual fee to the National Copyright office there. Supposedly, that fee gave us permission to play all of the copyrighted music performed in the club for that year. I thought it was interesting that no one ever asked us for our play list for the year or anything. I finally concluded that the fee was to pay the light bill at the copyright office opposed to feeding into some international fund that would make sure the Artist was actually paid. The good thing about the experience is that I heard some wonderful original music. There was a strong music industry there. CDs were distributed in local shops as we saw on the Good Copy Bad Copy film. Most promotions were done via the radio stations.

I am not sure American record companies will ever be able to enforce copyright laws for American music illegally downloaded for remix in smaller markets as we saw on the video. One reason is because it is just taking too long to figure out what will really work for everyone right here. Unfortunately, the copyright conversation is still a bunch of blah, blah, blah.



Jacqueline, This is very interesting…. isn’t there a bill or a law, or something that is supposed to pay royalties to artists by radio stations/bars/nightclubs for playing their music? (maybe its Missouri only)
That would be a disaster!!! I thought the purpose of radio (not XM or SIRUIS) was to give air time to artists so people would hear a song they liked and go buy the record or pay for concert tickets?
However, there is Youtube now (isn’t that how Justin Beiber marketed himself in the beginning?), so maybe it is only a matter of time before that is PAY to use….
I hate to say this out loud folks, but many many, grade school teachers violate copyright practices all the time at the copy machine….is it okay because it is in the name of education? or that school budgets have been cut? Did that book publisher/ author mean to have 200 copies of that published poem printed off? or were 200 books SUPPOSED to be sold? I am just saying….