'Nick....' wrote on Tue, 05 Mar 96 10:30:41 GMT :
quoted 5 lines Hey, I've just had a thought....> Hey, I've just had a thought....
> a Letter arriving on Jeff Mills or whoever's door, with a
> writ over copyright....for a mix tape!!!!
>
> Bizzare.
No - It wouldn't happen that way anyway. Most of these mixtapes are
recorded without the DJs knowledge and/or permission, no more than
permission is granted from any record companies. I'm sure plenty of
big-name DJs are pissed off at low quality boots of their
performances circulating round back street shops and geezers with
suitcases, but they probably accept it as part of the scene. The
person who would hypothetically get sued for copyright would be those
distributing the tapes, and maybe the club where it was recorded (?
but I doubt that)
quoted 2 lines Nope, if labels sued for copyright infringements i think the> Nope, if labels sued for copyright infringements i think the
> whole scene would die.
If they did (I won't go into whether they could/would/should) the
illegal mixtape scene would die, but the whole scene wouldn't. There
are so many threads to the house/rave/techno scene now, and so many
people involved, that action to curb one area of "dubious" activity
will never kill the whole scene. Look at the CJA in the UK. Curbs on
unlicensed gatherings are put in place to keep "undesirable"
activities down. A bad thing no doubt, and it's making life difficult
in some instances, but it hasn't killed the whole scene by any
stretch. But I digress. I simply disagree with your hypothesis.
J
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