"What we do is a lot more than putting playlists together: a lot of research goes into creating our compilation albums, and the intellectual property involved in that. It's not appropriate for someone to just cut and paste them," said Presencer.
I worked all weekend on that mixtape, damnit. And you, you just copied it.
Note: I think they should have stuck with the more valid argument that their compilations involve limited licensing rights from other parties. Complaining about how "users that are dismissing our curation skills as just a list...opens up the floodgates to anybody who wants to copy what a curator is doing." Or realize it kind of is just a list.
The stupid thing is, even if they were right, and Spotify put limits on playlists with 'Ministry of Sound' in the title which matched MoS compilations, users could easily get around that by calling them 'Ministry' instead (as there's a perfectly reasonable band called Ministry), and finding the occasional blank track of a second or two from other random albums with "hidden tracks".
Also I misread part of the article - I thought Spotify users had access to the MoS compilations, which might give some legal grounding to the compliant. But another article makes clear that's not it: "The compilations are not on Spotify, but the label says Spotify infringes copyright because some users' playlists mirror the albums' track listings." So if I looked up the track list for "The Sound Of Dubstep Classics" and used it to make a list on iTunes, that would be infringement? Please.
You know, it's stuff like that which ends up in EULAs containing language like "we have a right to look in your contact list" for ringtone programs.
(...because if I ask the program to assign a ringtone to a specific contact, of course it's going to damn well have to look in my contact list. But it doesn't specify that use case in the EULA.)
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Date: 2013-09-04 05:14 pm (UTC)I worked all weekend on that mixtape, damnit. And you, you just copied it.
Note: I think they should have stuck with the more valid argument that their compilations involve limited licensing rights from other parties. Complaining about how "users that are dismissing our curation skills as just a list...opens up the floodgates to anybody who wants to copy what a curator is doing." Or realize it kind of is just a list.
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Date: 2013-09-06 03:22 am (UTC)(...because if I ask the program to assign a ringtone to a specific contact, of course it's going to damn well have to look in my contact list. But it doesn't specify that use case in the EULA.)