Lyric Sites In Trouble With The MPA 666
Joe the Lesser writes "Apparently the Music Publishers Association is cracking down on sites, like LyricFind, that display song lyrics without permission. 'Just because there is no central licensing body it doesn't make it right to take lyrics and publish them without permission.' says Sarah Faulder of the MPA."
Can I sing them ? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Can I sing them ? (Score:1, Funny)
lyrics for American Life by Madonna (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Can I sing them ? (Score:5, Funny)
don't sing along -- you might be next (Score:5, Funny)
What we really need to do is clamp down on people who actually _sing_ those songs, out loud, without paying a royalty. And I'm not talking just street musicians -- what about those immoral folks who sing in the shower? And the even more wicked ones -- since they try to conceal their crimes -- yes, people who hum along in their heads.
Let's face it. It's wrong. The original artist (via the record company) has complete control over how the music is to be experienced. Any performance not sanctioned by them is clearly illegal. And worse, all those folks who heard you sing would otherwise have bought the CD, so you're losing sales -- stealing from the artist.
Not only that, but someone could record you singing the song, even if the original CD was copy protected, which would clearly be a breach of the DMCA.
I know theft when I see it.
Re:lyrics for American Life by Madonna (Score:5, Funny)
"What the fuck do you think you are doing".
That's the way mine goes.
Goblin
Lyric sites are good! (Score:5, Funny)
Even if there sole purpose is to stop the muppet next to you with a walkman singing "Whats a glove got to do with it"
Sounds perfectly reasonable to me... (Score:3, Funny)
RIAA lobby congress to impose tax on all paper (Score:5, Funny)
Stupid (Score:5, Funny)
"Hey! Did you buy the new Eminem CD?"
"No! I went to lyricfind.com and READ THE LYRICS for free!"
"Cool! Think I can read the new Britney Spears CD there?"
"Sure! Why not?"
"Great! Now we'll NEVER HAVE TO BUY CD's AGAIN!!!"
Re:Lyric sites are good! (Score:3, Funny)
Even if there sole purpose is to stop the muppet next to you with a walkman singing "Whats a glove got to do with it"
The Archive of Misheard Lyrics: http://kissthisguy.com/ [kissthisguy.com], named after the line in Hendrix's Purple Sky...
Phil
I wonder when... (Score:1, Funny)
I think i know why they're trying to do this (Score:3, Funny)
"dun dun duh-dun dun dun-duh-dun/ping/bip-bip-bip bup-bup-bup bop-bop-bop-bing"
With the lyrics and the melody, a person can imagine what the song sounds like without ever hearing it. Oh the piracy that will ensue and lost revenue from songs imagined.
C'mon people use your imaginations!
Rampant Recipe Swapping (Score:2, Funny)
Re:This is a surprise? (Score:5, Funny)
Poetry? Let's read an example of modern music and the "poetry" within.
Any law which makes it illegal to copy crap like that is OK by me.
I like how you jump from "lyrics" to "music" without even changing gear. If I tried something like that I think I'd ruin the synchro.
Where else am I going to get them?! (Score:1, Funny)
I suppose they will start including lyrics in the "special edition" CDs... or maybe the fact that I cant tell what the hell they are saying makes it Art.
Meh, I give up, I'm listening to techno from now on... DJ Tiesto doesn't sing much
Not quite right (Score:2, Funny)
while(majority_population != smart_to_this_crap)
{
rights --;
prices ++;
sales --;
blame_on_piracy ++;
sue_college_students(infinity_times_2_dollars);
Re:Stupid (Score:2, Funny)
"No! I went to lyricfind.com and READ THE LYRICS for free!"
I actualy did that, I got the "real slim shady", reformatted it a bit, and put it through the standard Mac speech engine. It worked of course, but only one thing supprised me. There are actually rappers worse than Eminem, thousends of them and they all run MacOS.
Re:Can I sing them ? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Uh...Yes (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Uh...no (Score:5, Funny)
That's right! Ever since I found out I could just find the lyrics to music on the internet, I stopped buying CD's entirely! You see, the only reason I bought CD's was so I could find out what song lyrics are. I've never really been interested in hearing the actual "songs". I assume most people feel the same way about this that I do, because otherwise the owners of the music wouldn't be losing any money and we'd both sound like idiots, right? It's a damn good thing someone is doing something about stopping people from having a convient way to find out what people are saying in songs! This "internet" problem has gone on long enough!!
Re:If they are making money out of it... (Score:3, Funny)
Fuck 'Em (Score:5, Funny)
Never one to take this kind of nonsense sitting down, I replied immediately. I've been checking my mail but, still, nothing.
-Waldo Jaquith
Re:lyrics for American Life by Madonna (Score:1, Funny)
Re:What the hell (Score:4, Funny)
"GadJi Beri Bimba Clan Dridi
Lauli Lonni Cadori Gadjam
A Bim Beri Glassalal Glandride
E Glassala Tuffm I ZIMBRA
Bim Blassa Galassasa Zimbrabim
Blassa Galassasa Zimbrabim
A Bim Beri Glassala Grandrid
E Glassala Tuffm I ZIMBRA
GadJi Beri Bimba Clan Dridi
Lauli Lonni Cadori Gadjam
A Bim Beri Glassalal Glandride
E Glassala Tuffm I ZIMBRA"
-- The Talking Heads, "I Zimbra"
Re:Uh...no (Score:5, Funny)
RIAA and MPA have filed a joint suit against Microsoft. The suit claims that Microsoft provides a means through their conroversial web browser Internet Explorer, to download song lyrics and then play them back using a Windows feature called 'narrator'. RIAA spokesperson David Nuterballs was quoted: 'Not since Napster, have we seen such blatant use of technology to steal from our artists'. The suit, rumored to be in the trillions, pretrial will begin in July.
Re:boy, is this short sighted (Score:3, Funny)
Can't wait to hear their cover of "She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain".
Re:Uh...no (Score:2, Funny)
Maybe I can finally understand some of the words that are sung that get mangled or purposely obfuscated.