[LINK] SMH: Radiohead and JJJ

[Chirgwin, Richard]

Interesting. If JJJ pays the normal royalty for playing a song, I can't see
that it's broken copyright (although of course the pirate who hosted the
site had done so). 

What JJJ has done is stuffed up someone's marketing plan - but that's not
illegal is it?

RC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Clarke [mailto:Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au]
> Sent: Thursday, 3 April 2003 10:45
> To: link at anu.edu.au
> Subject: [LINK] SMH: Radiohead and JJJ
> 
> 
> 
> An intelligent article, which suggests that the reporter has a better 
> idea of what's actually going on than EMI does.  Or possibly that EMI 
> is slowly starting to get it.
> 
> 
> EMI says it's not OK, computer
> The Sydney Morning Herald
> Date: April 3 2003
> By Bernard Zuel
> http://www.smh.com.au/text/articles/2003/04/02/1048962814654.htm
> 
> ABC youth radio network Triple J has promised not to play any more 
> pirated material from the upcoming Radiohead album after it became 
> the first radio station in the world this week to download and air 
> the unreleased songs.
> 
> "We don't want to infringe on the copyright," Triple J's music 
> director, Arnold Frolows, said yesterday. "This was a one-off event. 
> Were not interested in ripping off an artist's work three months out."
> 
> The British band's album, titled with what must be unintended irony 
> as Hail to the Thief , is not due for release until June9.
> ...
> "It was like a found object," Frolows said when asked if there had 
> been any ethical dilemma. "As fans it was more about getting excited 
> about finding something like this and we thought, 'what can we do, we 
> have to play it on the radio'."
> ...
> However, although EMI was involved in a "rolling process" of 
> encouraging websites to remove the material by reminding them of 
> copyright legislation, Mr O'Donnell said there were no plans to take 
> action against TripleJ - described as "Radiohead's traditional home" 
> - nor to bring forward the album's release date to thwart further 
> pirating.
> ...
> 
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