Can't even seek through songs.
this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2023
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I just wanna pitch something:
What if it was impossible to publish something through a preferred publisher? What if any published piece of music was legal to redistribute with a published fixed global royalty?
As in: You can start a music distribution service and you don't need to make any deals, you just use what's out there and pay the fixed fee per user who played the song.
This could perhaps be enforced by there simply being no more legal grounds to stop your service as long as you pay, with fines for secret deals being extremely high and the award for whistleblowing also being very high.
In general I feel like movies, shows and video games could be treated the same. Ending exclusivity has been something I've kinda wished to see forever. I think if you reconsider the ethics many of you might conclude that you agree with me.
Like GEMA in Germany? You don’t want that.
GEMA aeems to be doing a lot of shit I don't think should be done, like charging for live performances of GEMA-owned music. I also don't see why there should be an organization with memberships? That's not at all related.
I'm also not pitching an organization at all, I wouldn't expect an additional one to be necessary. It's just conceived as a legal framework change,
When I'm talking about starting companies, I'm talking about several, not competing through the size of they're libraries, but rather through other things like cost, quality, UI, searchability, recommendations, etc.
That's a really interesting idea!
I think that was what Grooveshark (claimed to) try to be. It didn't work out. It was banned in a lot of places and had a lot of lawsuits from record labels.
I am not talking about a concept for a company, I'm talking about revised ethics to inform revised laws which could perhaps enable what you seem to describe Grooveshark as.
I think the DMCA experiment has gone on long enough and it's time to try to mitigate the negative results of it through a different approach.