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03-11-2006, 1:35pm
Sat, March 11, 2006
Web-posting duo charged
By AP
NASHVILLE -- Two men are accused of violating copyright laws by posting music by alternative country artist Ryan Adams on a website before its public release, federal officials said.
A federal grand jury indictment says Robert Thomas of Milwaukee and Jared Bowser of Jacksonville, Florida, obtained and made portions of Adams's album Jacksonville City Nights available for copying by the public last August - about a month before the record's commercial release on Nashville-based Lost Highway Records.
"Any perception that copyright violations are victimless crimes is just plain wrong," U.S. attorney Jim Vines said Thursday.
"Theft of music, trade secrets and other intellectual property victimizes the creators of such works, who have a legal right to determine how their work is distributed."
Vines said the crimes also victimize the companies that foot the bill for the creative process, in this case Universal Music Group, parent company of the Lost Highway label and owner of the song copyrights.
http://www.edmontonsun.com/Entertainment/Music/2006/03/11/1483048-sun.html
Do you want to know what really bothers me about this. If they catch the guy who killed my sister, thats a giant if. If they catch that guy, he'll end up doing the same time as a bunch of guy posting songs. What is that about, does that seem wrong to anybody. A guy who ran over a woman and then raped her sister only got 13. These guys are getting 11 for posting some songs. How fair is that?
Web-posting duo charged
By AP
NASHVILLE -- Two men are accused of violating copyright laws by posting music by alternative country artist Ryan Adams on a website before its public release, federal officials said.
A federal grand jury indictment says Robert Thomas of Milwaukee and Jared Bowser of Jacksonville, Florida, obtained and made portions of Adams's album Jacksonville City Nights available for copying by the public last August - about a month before the record's commercial release on Nashville-based Lost Highway Records.
"Any perception that copyright violations are victimless crimes is just plain wrong," U.S. attorney Jim Vines said Thursday.
"Theft of music, trade secrets and other intellectual property victimizes the creators of such works, who have a legal right to determine how their work is distributed."
Vines said the crimes also victimize the companies that foot the bill for the creative process, in this case Universal Music Group, parent company of the Lost Highway label and owner of the song copyrights.
http://www.edmontonsun.com/Entertainment/Music/2006/03/11/1483048-sun.html
Do you want to know what really bothers me about this. If they catch the guy who killed my sister, thats a giant if. If they catch that guy, he'll end up doing the same time as a bunch of guy posting songs. What is that about, does that seem wrong to anybody. A guy who ran over a woman and then raped her sister only got 13. These guys are getting 11 for posting some songs. How fair is that?