Artist Not Allowed To Stream His Own Music

the_arrow writes "Scottish artist Edwyn Collins wanted to stream one of his own songs on MySpace, but it seems that copyright misunderstandings make him unable to do so. According to the article, 'Management for the former Orange Juice frontman have been unable to convince the website that they own the rights to A Girl Like You, despite the fact that they, er, do.' Collins said, 'I found a nice lawyer guy at Warners, very apologetic, promised to get it sorted, but all these months later it isn't.' His wife added, 'MySpace are not equipped to deal with the notion that anyone other than a major [label] can claim a copyright.'"

Wait, I'm confused -

[RevWaldo]

There are people who still use MySpace?

Re:Wait, I'm confused -

[AHuxley]

In South Korea, myspace is for old people.

Re:Think

[cayenne8]

Friends don't let friends join MySpace....

Re:Warner Music Group claims copyright

[lymond01]

Anonymous Coward,

The phrase "So this isn't a story about MySpace." is a copyright held by the MySpace corporation. We urge you to cease and desist using said phrase for the next 70 years. If you fail to comply with our...request...we will be forced to take legal action. And possibly destroy your feeble world with our battle station.

Best Wishes,

MySpace
Subisidiary of MyGalaxy
Antares, Antares 20010

Re:Let's get the car analogy out the way quickly..

[gnick]

This comment is written by gnick and is therefore copyrighted. Since it was written at work and it took me approximately 1.5 hours to write/edit/Preview/Submit and I make approximately 1 bazillion dollars an hour, this comment is worth $1.5 bazillion (US).

At my incredibly modest royalty fees, replicating this comment (e.g. downloading, printing, etc) costs only $5. If you've read this comment, please contact me for PayPal information to submit your payment.

Re:Simple Solution

[ClosedSource]

"Find someone who understands what you're about, and use their service instead."

Probably Google since they know more about you than any other web entity.

Re:Not always a problem

[DeeVeeAnt]

Of course I didn't RTFA, this is Slashdot isn't it? Cheers for reading it for me, that salient fact wasn't in the summary.

Re:Think

[tverbeek]

If it were up to the RIAA, artists wouldn't be allowed to stream their own urine.

Re:But I own the patent on car analogies

[Stanislav_J]

Therefore, please send a royalty of $5 USD for each infringement (aka view) to my papal account www-data@localhost.

I had no idea His Holiness was a Slashdot user....

Re:But I own the patent on car analogies

[Anonymous Coward]

Must have been Him as that was a lot of bull.

Never met a girl like you before

[hoover]

If he tried streaming "never met a girl like you before", I guess the Geneva convention was considered applicable for the abysmal guitar solo... good riddance and hats off to the guys in The Hague! ;-)

Hope this gets resolved soon

[jd80026]

Dozens of fans are eagerly waiting to hear this song again.

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Re:Warner Music Group claims copyright

[Anonymous Coward]

Wouldn't MyGalaxy be a subsidiary of MySpace??

Re:iFail again!

[Mister Whirly]

Well, neither site is currently pursuing what they started out as. Both have morphed into the generic social sites that are near impossible to tell apart by features or stated purpose these days...And when the next Facebook comes along Facebook will be the new MySpace.

This will get fixed

[commodoresloat]

Don't worry, folks. "Tom" will straighten this out immediately.