Music on ur blog? u may need to license it.
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Music on your blog? You may need to license it
Website owners could pay from $1,000 to $10,000 a year based on number of songs.
By Serene Luo - 12 January 2006
The Straits Times
BLOGGERS and personal website owners may soon be pressed to license the background music that they have on their online journals or websites.
This was announced by Dr Edmund Lam, chief executive and director of the Composers and Authors Society of Singapore (Compass), yesterday. He was launching Compass' one-stop centre which will make licensing musical works for digital distribution easier.
'We increasingly see more bloggers who upload music onto their webpages,' he said.
'We want to encourage them to come forward to our one-stop centre to get licensed, for a reasonable fee.'
For websites where the song cannot be downloaded or have any advertising, owners have to pay $1,000 a year for playing 10 songs or fewer, $5,000 for playing 11 to 49 songs and $10,000 for over 50 songs.
This is a 'competitive rate', said Mr Melvin Tan, the licensing manager of Compass, which protects the interests of composers and lyricists, and administers royalties to them.
Under the law, royalties must be paid on music put on websites too, even if it is a blog.
While it has not yet sued anyone, Compass will start 'massive educational efforts' soon, said Dr Lam.
For now, Compass and its partners - eight music publishers, including Warner/Chappell Music Singapore and Sony Music Publishing - are targeting the 20 or so content providers such as music download store Soundbuzz or ringtone download store Max Mobile and the telcos here.
Formerly, content providers had to discuss separate licensing agreements with each of the music publishers, record companies and Compass.
Now, they need only to contact Compass and the record companies.
The new system also means savings for content providers, which will now pay 12 per cent of the retail price of the ringtone or music download instead of 16.25 per cent, said Ms Dulcie Soh, general manager of BMG Music Publishing Singapore
Online music store Soundbuzz chief executive Sudhanshu Sarronwala welcomed the move, saying licensing will now be easier 'logistics-wise'.
'It means that instead of dealing with nine companies every year, we deal with just one, so it should take us just one-ninth the time,' he said.
'When licensing is easier, more players may come into the market.'
Similar licensing schemes exist in Hong Kong, Australia and India.
Japan even has a similar licensing centre which has licensed one million personal websites that have music streamed on them.
Popular blogger Lee Kin Mun, who writes under the moniker Mr Brown, is 'not sure this will endear fan bases who like the music so much they've given you free publicity on their websites to labels'.
'For most of them, it's mostly for harmless fun,' he said.
'Maybe Compass can give them a students' discount. That may encourage them not to steal music.'
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so do i need licensing if i uploaded a VIDEO on my freindster profile?
I juz uploaded it not long ago.. love it so much.. need to remove ma?
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worse, no more SMS in sgforums
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wat a money face government ...
A so much money for uploading a song....
money face
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wah! that bad ar?!Originally posted by the Bear:worse, no more SMS in sgforums
dun u find this law ridiculous? $1000 for a song and they call it 'reasonable'. -
get a hold of yourself.. it's not the gabrament
Originally posted by masteryap:wat a money face government ...
A so many money for uploading song
$_$ money face -
how about MIDI? also need to license? Duhz.....
Looks like we need money to buy freedom these days.... if not. everything's illegal. -
Noooooooooo !Originally posted by the Bear:worse, no more SMS in sgforums
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argee ....Originally posted by browniebaobao:wah! that bad ar?!
dun u find this law ridiculous? $1000 for a song and they call it 'reasonable'.
than wat the point of buying mp3???? -
some of u may be shocked to know that, under the Copyright Act, even if u bought a cd, it is also illegal to rip the cd to ur computer, bcos u only have the copyright to the cd itself.
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THIS IS TOTALLY RIDICULOUS!!! Licensing music on blogs??? Thats the best joke I've heard about copyright laws yet!
So what they gonna do? Charge us students $1k for playing music on our blogs?
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I wonder if we should frame up the reciept as proof of purchase. Nah, perhaps we should put it in some plastic holder.. in case kana raid... ask me qns whose CDs in my bag belongs to.Originally posted by browniebaobao:some of u may be shocked to know that, under the Copyright Act, even if u bought a cd, it is also illegal to rip the cd to ur computer, bcos u only have the copyright to the cd itself.
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seriously, i have a fren who keeps every receipt she got from purchasing an album.Originally posted by BÃ¥seline:I wonder if we should frame up the reciept as proof of purchase. Nah, perhaps we should put it in some plastic holder.. in case kana raid... ask me qns whose CDs in my bag belongs to. -
dam ....
tml go setter him ar!!!!
it is so RIDICULOUS.... total RIDICULOUS
wtf law is this ????
i nv heard of this stupid law!!!!
wat a government, say want to add
mean add, at least ask we all want
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everything they want money.
soon there will be breathing tax.
did i just give them a new idea? -
Like woooooooooooooooooooooowOriginally posted by browniebaobao:seriously, i have a fren who keeps every receipt she got from purchasing an album. -
wat a tax law ....
soon there will be a:-using computer tax
-computer games tax
-website tax
-windows media player tax
-internet tax
- lots of tax
everything tax
even buy a chicken rice at coffee shop also need tax.... -
Originally posted by the Bear:worse, no more SMS in sgforums We can always have forumers sing.
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there still will be...the server is hosted in Britain...cops here cant touch the adminOriginally posted by the Bear:worse, no more SMS in sgforums
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Originally posted by Parka: We can always have forumers sing.
hmm oh well, it's true tat we have forumites that can sing really well. -
It leaves alot of qns....
Say, participants who sang songs by the artistes at some SuperstarBand, etc... are they liable to be sued if they go ahead?
Any retail shops blasting them may be liable too cos it comes under advertising? Even though the CD is purchased by the respective shop.
Seemed like they present more qns than answers to counter this form of priracy. -
for more information pls visit www.ipos.org.sgOriginally posted by BÃ¥seline:It leaves alot of qns....
Say, participants who sang songs by the artistes at some SuperstarBand, etc... are they liable to be sued if they go ahead?
Any retail shops blasting them may be liable too cos it comes under advertising? Even though the CD is purchased by the respective shop.
Seemed like they present more qns than answers to counter this form of priracy.
i juz submitted a project on copyright law. -
Unless you sing songs penned by yaself... else.. u are required to make ya way to Compass first.Originally posted by Parka: We can always have forumers sing.
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It's http://www.ipos.gov.sgOriginally posted by browniebaobao:for more information pls visit www.ipos.org.sg
i juz submitted a project on copyright law. -
paisei ar.. went to too many websites to do research liao.Originally posted by BÃ¥seline: