Comments on: BUMA/Stemra and Royal Dutch Horeca in tiff over “rights-free” music http://www.tekstadventure.nl/branko/blog/2006/01/bumastemra-and-royal-dutch-horeca-in-tiff-over-rights-free-music Three atheists walk into a bar ... wait, that's not funny! Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:52:31 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Natasha http://www.tekstadventure.nl/branko/blog/2006/01/bumastemra-and-royal-dutch-horeca-in-tiff-over-rights-free-music/comment-page-1#comment-5534 Natasha Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:08:42 +0000 http://www.tekstadventure.nl/branko/blog/?p=385#comment-5534 While BUMA/STEMRA asks for some 22 euro a month for streaming a web radio, a rate set for hobbyists (80% of all Dutch web radios), their friends at SENA ask for 40 euro a month, assuming everyone is rich cafe or restaurant owner. I think the latter is disgusting and unfair, so I refuse to pay it, while I do pay B/S. Also, podcasting is still free because all these bureaucrats can't agree on a fee. How fair is that? So if you stream you should pay some 60 euro a month and if you podcast, it's free, never mind the fact that there is talk of charging people for podsafe music! It's all very screwed up. While BUMA/STEMRA asks for some 22 euro a month for streaming a web radio, a rate set for hobbyists (80% of all Dutch web radios), their friends at SENA ask for 40 euro a month, assuming everyone is rich cafe or restaurant owner. I think the latter is disgusting and unfair, so I refuse to pay it, while I do pay B/S.

Also, podcasting is still free because all these bureaucrats can’t agree on a fee. How fair is that?

So if you stream you should pay some 60 euro a month and if you podcast, it’s free, never mind the fact that there is talk of charging people for podsafe music! It’s all very screwed up.

]]> By: brankl http://www.tekstadventure.nl/branko/blog/2006/01/bumastemra-and-royal-dutch-horeca-in-tiff-over-rights-free-music/comment-page-1#comment-1874 brankl Sun, 29 Jan 2006 13:48:52 +0000 http://www.tekstadventure.nl/branko/blog/?p=385#comment-1874 BUMA/Stemra must do the hard copyright research, so that we do not have to. However, if they spent too much time (and thus money) on this research, the artists and record companies would get angry with them, because these costs would bite in their proceeds. So I understand their dilemma. Still, it is a problem they brought upon themselves. The founders of BUMA/Stemra did not have to start their organisation; and the current board should only run it if they feel up to it. And of course, any creator or publisher who wants to start a competing collection agency that does try to keep better track of rights is alway welcome to do so. It is not as if BUMA/Stemra has a monopoly. On the third hand, the works of every copyright owner represented by BUMA/Stemra are in threat of less dissemination through B/S's policies. Since works belong to the public, not to the authors, this is a problem for the public. Anyway, if it were up to the E.U., organisations like BUMA/Stemra will be outlawed in the course of time, to be replaced by DRM locks on works. That's the day the public domain will truly suffer. Still, one hopes for market forces to run their course. BUMA/Stemra must do the hard copyright research, so that we do not have to. However, if they spent too much time (and thus money) on this research, the artists and record companies would get angry with them, because these costs would bite in their proceeds. So I understand their dilemma.

Still, it is a problem they brought upon themselves. The founders of BUMA/Stemra did not have to start their organisation; and the current board should only run it if they feel up to it.

And of course, any creator or publisher who wants to start a competing collection agency that does try to keep better track of rights is alway welcome to do so. It is not as if BUMA/Stemra has a monopoly.

On the third hand, the works of every copyright owner represented by BUMA/Stemra are in threat of less dissemination through B/S’s policies. Since works belong to the public, not to the authors, this is a problem for the public.

Anyway, if it were up to the E.U., organisations like BUMA/Stemra will be outlawed in the course of time, to be replaced by DRM locks on works. That’s the day the public domain will truly suffer. Still, one hopes for market forces to run their course.

]]> By: Wis[s]e Words http://www.tekstadventure.nl/branko/blog/2006/01/bumastemra-and-royal-dutch-horeca-in-tiff-over-rights-free-music/comment-page-1#comment-1872 Wis[s]e Words Sat, 28 Jan 2006 22:57:13 +0000 http://www.tekstadventure.nl/branko/blog/?p=385#comment-1872 <strong>Copyright and copywrong</strong> I must say I've never liked BUMA/STEMRA, as it always seemed like an organisation less concerned with protecting artists than with collecting money for itself and the Dutch record companies, a somewhat inflexible bureaucracy which seeks to maximalise... Copyright and copywrong

I must say I’ve never liked BUMA/STEMRA, as it always seemed like an organisation less concerned with protecting artists than with collecting money for itself and the Dutch record companies, a somewhat inflexible bureaucracy which seeks to maximalise…

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