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How My Music Was Plagiarized for Profit and How I Fought Back

57 points by usea 13y ago

anigbrowl 13y ago
I can't believe how selfish this guy is. Doesn't he know that having other people lay claim to his music is the highest form of praise? Praise that he doesn't deserve, since he doesn't play live and appears to think that he should be entitled to exploit his own creative output for financial gain. A real parasite on society. /sarcasm
- __david__ 13y ago
  If this is some sort of misguided attempt to liken this situation to end consumers pirating music, I'm afraid you're way off base (and on quite a high horse). If it isn't please explain because I'm not understanding your point.
  - koberstein 13y ago
    He was being sarcastic.
    - cowpewter 13y ago
      It's not even very good sarcasm in this case, since the author openly says in the article that he didn't really mind and appreciated the exposure that came from his music being pirated, except for this case, in which it was being attributed to someone else (depriving him of said exposure).
- Pitarou 13y ago
  But it's interesting that Limm didn't seem upset about people sharing his work. What hurt him was that somebody else had claimed authorship, and somebody else was receiving the royalties.
- noonespecial 13y ago
  Steal my music? I can accept that and can even appreciate the exposure. Steal my music with someone else’s name on it? Oh, man. I wanted to hurl. Sarcasm aside, this is a wide miss when it comes to this guy. There's a huge difference between a fan that wants to hear your tracks for free (which they can all do right on the artist's website and youtube channel) and a predator who searches for that perfect nexus of mildly popular up-and-comer who lacks the legal muscle to fight back in order to exploit both artist and fan alike.
  - anigbrowl 13y ago
    I don't know why the three of you insist on trying to shift the argument to piracy, which I didn't even bring up. There, unfortunately, lots of people who defend the idea that 'there's nothing new under the sun' and therefore it's OK to appropriate the work of others for remixing or what-all else. The fact that you're defending against an argument I never made in the first place strikes me as a classic case of 'protesting too much'.
brokentone 13y ago
If everything Jeremy Lim is saying is true, it's encouraging to see the dreaded DMCA being used to fight against actual IP violations of "the little guy," as well as companies going above and beyond to help him out. Kudos Jeremy - nice artistic work, and working with the system to recover your work.
mwilcox 13y ago
A quick search on Google Play still lists the track mentioned: http://i.imgur.com/IUe6qwE.png http://i.imgur.com/IUe6qwE.png
SyneRyder 13y ago
This happens quite often. Something similar happened to Bjorn Lynne, who some might remember as "Dr Awesome" from the days of .MOD files. Bjorn posted his story via updates on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151664802911868&id=41670261867 https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1015166480... https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151664803161868&id=41670261867 https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1015166480... https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151687263021868&id=41670261867 https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1015168726...

57 points by usea 13y ago

I can't believe how selfish this guy is. Doesn't he know that having other people lay claim to his music is the highest form of praise? Praise that he doesn't deserve, since he doesn't play live and appears to think that he should be entitled to exploit his own creative output for financial gain. A real parasite on society. /sarcasm

__david__ 13y ago
If this is some sort of misguided attempt to liken this situation to end consumers pirating music, I'm afraid you're way off base (and on quite a high horse). If it isn't please explain because I'm not understanding your point.
- koberstein 13y ago
  He was being sarcastic.
  - cowpewter 13y ago
    It's not even very good sarcasm in this case, since the author openly says in the article that he didn't really mind and appreciated the exposure that came from his music being pirated, except for this case, in which it was being attributed to someone else (depriving him of said exposure).
Pitarou 13y ago
But it's interesting that Limm didn't seem upset about people sharing his work. What hurt him was that somebody else had claimed authorship, and somebody else was receiving the royalties.
noonespecial 13y ago
Steal my music? I can accept that and can even appreciate the exposure. Steal my music with someone else’s name on it? Oh, man. I wanted to hurl. Sarcasm aside, this is a wide miss when it comes to this guy. There's a huge difference between a fan that wants to hear your tracks for free (which they can all do right on the artist's website and youtube channel) and a predator who searches for that perfect nexus of mildly popular up-and-comer who lacks the legal muscle to fight back in order to exploit both artist and fan alike.
- anigbrowl 13y ago
  I don't know why the three of you insist on trying to shift the argument to piracy, which I didn't even bring up. There, unfortunately, lots of people who defend the idea that 'there's nothing new under the sun' and therefore it's OK to appropriate the work of others for remixing or what-all else. The fact that you're defending against an argument I never made in the first place strikes me as a classic case of 'protesting too much'.

brokentone 13y ago

If everything Jeremy Lim is saying is true, it's encouraging to see the dreaded DMCA being used to fight against actual IP violations of "the little guy," as well as companies going above and beyond to help him out. Kudos Jeremy - nice artistic work, and working with the system to recover your work.

mwilcox 13y ago

A quick search on Google Play still lists the track mentioned: http://i.imgur.com/IUe6qwE.png http://i.imgur.com/IUe6qwE.png

SyneRyder 13y ago

This happens quite often. Something similar happened to Bjorn Lynne, who some might remember as "Dr Awesome" from the days of .MOD files. Bjorn posted his story via updates on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151664802911868&id=41670261867 https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1015166480... https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151664803161868&id=41670261867 https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1015166480... https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151687263021868&id=41670261867 https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1015168726...