The Music-Copyright Enforcers

[SecularMotion]

There was the time her pet hamster, Herschel, died. There was the time she was run over by a car. Neither episode provoked tears. Not even close. And yet, on a recent Thursday, as Baker drove down Highway 60, about 55 miles northwest of Phoenix, she had to wonder, Is today one of those days when I’m gonna cry?

Baker, who has preternaturally white teeth, green eyes, soft brown hair and a friendly way that she’s the first to describe as “country,” was on her once-a-month, weeklong road trip. She’d flown to Phoenix to meet with bar and restaurant owners to discuss a rather straightforward business proposal. Off she went on her rounds each day, navigating with a special Microsoft Streets and Trips plan she prepared in advance, with 60 to 80 venues marked with dots, triangles or blue squares, according to size, dollar value and priority, wearing her company badge with photo ID, hoping for a little friendly discussion. Except it didn’t always work out so friendly.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/magazine/08music-t.html?_r=1&hp

[dipsydoodle]

1. Our Perfrorming Rigths Society

here in the UK have started doing spins on DJ's who also sell CDs to make sure what they're selling is kosher and not copies.

[zonkers]

3. What does "doing spins" mean? And are you saying they charge DJ's a fee for selling mixtapes?

[dipsydoodle]

5. Nope

Spin = check.

If the did DJ's didn't have original music CDs for sale as opposed to copies they'd have charges brought against them

[zonkers]

2. Awesome read. Thanks for posting.

[Newest Reality]

4. Worth reading

especially for the insight into the tracking technology they are using.

Then, there is the matter of how much goes to the artists versus what BMI and the publishers get.

Very shark infested.