Having been on just about all sides of this copyright issue, I
think I can understand the label owner's initial trepidation at
allowing multimedia discog's. And I do realize that yes, technically
and legally, we are infringing upon their copyright, and copyright
law, despite the wishes of software bootleggers around the world, does
apply world-wide according to international convention.
So, the right thing to do, as Fluid has done, is to email Ben
at Rephlex and ask for some sort of official acknowlegement or
permission for this. The law would view this, according to some
friends in copyright law at the law school here at Berkeley, as a
similar case to cassette duplication, or possibly even comparable to
quoting a piece of literature in another piece of literature.
However, I'm certainly not interested in setting any legal precedents,
thanks :)
I think any label owner would be crazy to NOT endorse
something like this, in fact I think 10 years from now something like
this will be very commonplace and funded by record labels themselves.
(
http://columbia.com/micheael.jackson.html for example :) And we'll
all have fast computers and fat pipes to the net which'll make this
very popular thing.
Brian