No Surprise: In the Digital Era, Territorial Licensing / Old Model Rights Practices Are Problematic
The Labels will wage war on themselves.
Sony Music France wrote to tell me to take down a Passion Pit song I posted yesterday (“remove those copyrighted files”).
I am not taking it down.
The MP3 was introduced to the internet yesterday by the band’s US label, Frenchkiss, who premiered it on Pitchfork and then urged people to “go download it.”
This is not an issue of “copyrighted materials being illegally posted;” this is an issue of outdated, unworkable ‘old-model’ rights practices, and an issue of 2 labels with a common interest not communicating with one another.
Yet another chapter in the music industry follies: Global rights.
