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There's much less of a culture of posting other peoples work on soundcloud, it's much more focused on letting artists share their own work.
by jurre 13y ago
There's much less of a culture of posting other peoples work on soundcloud, it's much more focused on letting artists share their own work.
- kristiandupont 13y agoYou might be right in terms of proportions, I don't know but there is plenty of copyrighted material on Soundcloud not belonging to the poster.
- 001sky 13y agoThis only really matters in the context of such postings not being helpful to the artists.
- michaelt 13y agoHaving a track sampled in a remix or mashup might seem good for the original artist, but that doesn't mean their record label won't try to shake SoundCloud down for cash. Especially if soundcloud start making money (and why else would VCs have invested?).
- 001sky 13y agoThis is certainly true; at some stage soundcloud though has the potential to be the label, though. Or in other words, to be the distrtibution channel as there is no/limited physical need to press records, when DJs are downloading the tracks. With this in mind, your point still stands, but the role of the label being more of a marketer is its highest value added service. And in that role, it would seem they would want to encourage promotion of the tracks. The open issue is the monetization of that scale by the two parties, who gets what cut. And that is going to continue to be fought over...regardless of who owns/controls the copyright...as that will also be in flux going fwd imho. But we shall see....
- Keyframe 13y agoQuick search yielded numerous copyright infringements. Not even remixes, plain pirate material. So I am wondering how does it work on business side, how do you defend from it? Same question would be appropriate for imgur too. How can you shield yourself from it if you're a small startup with no cash? You wait for legal papers to flow your general direction and hope for a deal?
- return0 13y agoThere's a copyright infringement form if you are interested. Soundcloud is not usually used as a free music service, (although most creators allow free downloads), it's mostly about discovering and collaborating. Even if they removed all infringing content, my feed would be barely less interesting.
- lotso 13y agoDMCA safe harbor is usually enough to protect you http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act#Viacom_Inc._v._YouTube.2C_Google_Inc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Ac....