Is Sony No Better Than Pirates It Goes After?

[exfileme]

Sony compiled a new album without establishing a new contract. Artist calls in raid.

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[davisorle]

Since its in Mexico.. I really hope they dont screw up the artist since Sony can afford at least THAT much to pay this one off. If Sony is contributing against piracy then I dont think they should tolate this crap and make Sony pay big time if indeed its clear the 7Album limitation they had. I REALLY have no tolerance for hypocrits and BS.

 

[d_kuhn]

lol... the music industry is pretty sleazy, for decades they profited by leeching as much money out of bands as their monopolistic policies allowed. Now they cry poor and expect us all to feel sorry for them, but they really have not changed one bit since the bad old days.

All hail Internet distribution and self marketed albums... put the profits in the hands of the artists instead of a million middlemen hangers on.

 

[Rancifer7]

It would be a grand Irony if Sony lost this one. Along the Lines of the willful copyright infringement decision against Microsoft Office recently.

 

[Andraxxus]

Well this is a start.Curious about the outcome.

 

[doomtomb]

Fuck Sony. The artist told you "NO." Is our system so screwed up that these fat ass record labels get control over the music even though it's the damn artist writing the music. If he doesn't want to release it then it shouldn't be released!

 

[Honis]

Poorly worded title. Sony OWNs the songs. Pirates own no part of the stuff they pirate.

Sleazy move by Sony? Yeah it is. The court (assuming the judge isn't bought out and the artist didn't get trapped in a legal loophole) will probably come to the artist side.

 

[reichscythe]

@Honis - You're wrong, buddy:

Sony owns the tapes... but they don't own the MAGIC on those tapes...

 

[Guest]

Another quality article from Kevin Parrish...

 

[ssalim]

The rich gets richer and pirates, the poor, well the poor just pirates.

 

[dap007]

So SONY can do whatever they want with Fernández's albums because they "OWN" it, but when we buy a CD we can't do as we please with it because what we don't "OWN" it???

 

[blackened144]

If Sony can get an $81,000 per track fine against a normal person, I dont think an $8.1m per track against Sony is out of line.

 

[aneasytarget]

"case and desist order"
did you mean "cease and desist order"?

 

[jrl360]

This is the 3rd article from today that nobody bothered to proofread...

 

[Guest]

There is no honor among theives

 

[athreex]

Well there 's an aspect that will affect the outcome. First off, Sony decides to release a NEW ALBUM (count as 8th) with previously unreleases material. This means that in every Alejandro's releases ( and like other artists) there are songs that never make it to the final production. Sony decided to those remaining songs of each release, compile them and make a brand new album. All with lefover songs Alejandro Fernanadez left in each album.

In my opinion ( since I don't know how this will turn out) Sony should only make new albums based on officially released material, NOT UNRELEASED material. Still, it would be interesting to see the contract terms ( eg..does the contract states that every song are owned by Sony, even if they are not released?).

Come on, those are songs that were left out, that maybe Alejandro Fernandez could use later ( with his newer universal contract).

In my opinion, I think Sony is screwing this one.

 

[athreex]

Well there 's an aspect that will affect the outcome of this case. First off, Sony decides to release a NEW ALBUM (count as 8th) with previously unreleases material. This means that in every Alejandro's releases ( and like other artists) there are songs that never make it to the final production. Sony decided to those remaining songs of each release, compile them and make a brand new album. All with lefover songs Alejandro Fernanadez left in each album.

In my opinion ( since I don't know how this will turn out) Sony should only make new albums based on officially released material, NOT UNRELEASED material. Still, it would be interesting to see the contract terms ( eg..does the contract states that every song are owned by Sony, even if they are not released?).

Come on, those are songs that were left out, that maybe Alejandro Fernandez could use later ( with his newer universal contract).

In my opinion, I think Sony is screwing this one.

 

[yrmoma]

The shoe is on the other foot.

 

[Guest]

I'm going to download his albums via BiTorrent just to piss Sony off.

 

[JohnnyLucky]

I'm with Athreex. I'd like to see what both parties agreed to in the contract.