[Commons-Law] Download illegally - go to jail. Download legally - go to jail too!
Via: Patrice Riemens
Dutch court makes legal status of downloading music even more convoluted.
(translation from an article in the NRC-Handelsblad daily, Friday august
22, 2008.)
Want to listen to Coldplay through the '3voor12' (3to12) website? That's
OK, as VPRO (a Dutch broadcasting association) has cleared the rights with
the national authorsrights body Buma. But only in the Netherlands!
Accessing the same website from Germany is illegal: the license doesn't
cross the border. This at least is what a court in Haarlem ruled this
week. The judge decided that Buma was not allowed to license the access to
online music outside the Netherlands. A fast track court case had been
brought forward by the British Performing Right Society (PRS) against
Buma. They demanded Buma be prevented from granting licenses to their own
repository, eg songs by Coldplay, if the sites could be accessed from
outside the Netherlands.
The outcome of this ruling might be that owners of music websites must now
apply to each and every national authors rights agency for permission to
make songs available.
(A fine mess indeed...)
Dutch court makes legal status of downloading music even more convoluted.
(translation from an article in the NRC-Handelsblad daily, Friday august
22, 2008.)
Want to listen to Coldplay through the '3voor12' (3to12) website? That's
OK, as VPRO (a Dutch broadcasting association) has cleared the rights with
the national authorsrights body Buma. But only in the Netherlands!
Accessing the same website from Germany is illegal: the license doesn't
cross the border. This at least is what a court in Haarlem ruled this
week. The judge decided that Buma was not allowed to license the access to
online music outside the Netherlands. A fast track court case had been
brought forward by the British Performing Right Society (PRS) against
Buma. They demanded Buma be prevented from granting licenses to their own
repository, eg songs by Coldplay, if the sites could be accessed from
outside the Netherlands.
The outcome of this ruling might be that owners of music websites must now
apply to each and every national authors rights agency for permission to
make songs available.
(A fine mess indeed...)
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