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Who is the performer in this situation, who is the recording artist, and who owns the copyright? This debate has been raging for over a century. And this is UK
by warfangle 13y ago
Who is the performer in this situation, who is the recording artist, and who owns the copyright? This debate has been raging for over a century.
And this is UK law, so I'm not even going to speculate.
But this reeks of the Oracle v Google Java API copyright infringement suite.
- sneak 13y agoYou seem to have missed the part where Spotify has licenses to stream all the music in question. MoS is suing over user-generated (and shared) playlists of these songs on Spotify, claiming copyright on the act of assembling a compilation.
- warfangle 13y agoI'm still not from the UK, have no experience (even reading) about UK copyright law (other than some historical tidbits in one of Lawrence Lessig's books). I completely understand what they're suing over and what spotify has copyrighted vs. what MoS is claiming. Of course, what they're claiming, the track listing on Wikipedia is probably infringing as well.. (ed. also: Spotify may have the permissions to stream the original, unmodified tracks - but when MoS puts together their compilations there is significant mixing and mastering that happens to modify the tracks from their original; so these aren't even the tracks from the MoS albums - just lists of the original tracks used to compile the MoS albums)