[LINK] Australia, Second Class Citizens, according to EMI

[Scott Howard]

Oh and for what it's worth, it looks like EMI do not have the rights for
this in the USA either.  I get exactly the same message when I go to view
it from Menlo Park, a few miles down the road from the YouTube headquarters.

  Scott.



On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Scott Howard <scott at doc.net.au> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 6:53 AM, Tom Koltai <tomk at unwired.com.au> wrote:
>
>> This content hasn’t been taken down. It is filtered for au IP numbers.
>> Although piracy is often used as the excuse to put the smaller guys
>> (competitors to the larger labels) out of business.
>>
>
> As I'm sure you're aware Tom, this has absolutely nothing to do with
> "second class" citizens or piracy - it's simply about distribution rights.
> EMI does not have the distribution rights for that particular video in
> certain countries, and thus they ask Youtube not to display it in those
> countries.
>
> This is no different to the fact that despite being an Australia citizen
> and an Australia tax payer I am unable to view the Australian Governments
> own broadcasting companies video streaming app (ie,  ABC iView) because I
> am not located in Australia.  I don't consider that the Australian
> Government is treating me as a second class citizen as a result of that - I
> recognize that it's because they do not have the rights to distribute some
> of their content outside of Australia, and thus they limit traffic to
> Australians only except when they know they will not be broadcasting any
> such traffic (eg, during election coverage, or even during the recent
> Qantas shutdown).
>
>
> Either way, I stand by my original comment, "Australia is being treated as
>> a second class country" by EMI's copyright legal eagles...." and we
>> shouldnt put up with it.
>
>
> What would you have them do, Tom?  Illegally distribute content that they
> do not own the rights for?  Rights which are owned by another company -
> possibly even an Australia company?  Perhaps your time would be better
> spent finding out who owns the distribution rights for this song in
> Australia, and asking them to put it on YouTube.
>
>   Scott
>
>