Judge Orders Site to Stop Selling Beatles Tracks
The Beatles just got a teeny, tiny bit more digital with the launch of an Apple-shaped USB stick containing the entire Beatles catalog. However, that's about as digital as things are going to get for fans of the Fab Four for now.
EMI Music this week won an injunction against Bluebeats.com, a site the label said is selling Beatles music without permission. Bluebeats.com claims it's not actually selling Beatles music, rather it's actually offering 25c a song downloads of re-recorded tracks.
Bluebeats.com's lawyer is reportedly basing the site's defense on "psychoacoustic simulation," an "arcane" technology that supposedly produces music enables it to sell music that sounds identical to recordings without actually infringing on any copyrights.
It all sounds a bit sketchy to us but there's a court hearing scheduled for November 20. We expect to hear all about "psychoacoustic simulation," and how copyright laws don't apply to songs produced using the mysterious technology then but for now, Bluebeats is not allowed to sell the tracks.
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Good luck getting that one to fly...
Yeah, try to have the artists eat that......
Just like torrenting is "psychodigital file reproduction." I get it.
good luck
but when the music is stored in 1 and 0 how many 1 and 0 different makes it not the same.
Go for it, the Beatles are crap anyways.
It's not going to fly. psychoacoustic is made up of 1 and 0... which in the end is atom. Music is also made up of atom. So they are all the same. They don't have permission to sell.
It's not going to fly. psychoacoustic is made up of 1 and 0... which in the end is atom. Music is also made up of atom. So they are all the same. They don't have permission to sell.
Aren't atoms patented by Gene Simmons already?
Images can be manipulated to a certain extent to no longer be considered infringing on a copyright. Therefore, the same should apply to music. Of course, unless they changed the lyrics somewhat, it doesn't really matter what it sounds like. Music is a complex beast. There's the actual performance (the guitar riffs, drum solos, vocal talent) that are aural pieces of work (like a painting is visual), but then the lyrics themselves are protected like a book.
It will be interesting to see the outcome of this, asusming the judge isn't just a Beatles fan and instantly rules in Apple Corp's favor.
Bluebeats is insane if they think they can sell Sony properties to the general public. What a dumb idea, especailly using one of the largest rock and roll names that ever existed in the industry. Plus at a time like this after MJ has passed away and Sony is losing all kinds of money on their failing PS3 platform. This is not a time to try to dicker with Sony corporation.