DJ Orion

Short notes about music business #6

Lawrence Lessig about the “copyright war“.

“I believe we should not be waging this war. I believe so not because I think copyright is unimportant. Instead, I believe in peace because the costs of this war wildly exceed any benefit, at least when you consider changes to the current regime of copyright that could end this war while promising artists and authors the protection that any copyright system is intended to provide.”

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Copyright claim with UMG & YouTube

A couple of weeks ago YouTube sent me a copyright claim. Content owner, UMG (Universal Music Group) claimed I was infringing their copyright and having illegal content (= music) on my video, called “Flair”.

In this video, filmed back in the day in Kalajoki, after a gig in Dyyni, shows the bartender flairing. It’s 37 seconds long and – indeed – if you listen carefully, there is some music playing in the background. Turn up the volume and you might even recognize the track being performed by Black Eyed Peas.

The Youtube clip is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65EOI3Q6IUE
and if it’s blocked and you can’t see it, feel free to check it here (2,4mb).

Now, judge it yourself – do you think that this amazing piece of video art is fair use of content or copyright infringing?

After my complaint I got a response today from YouTube which can be seen above.
According to the message this video is now blocked everywhere except Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Guam, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, South Korea, Spain, United States, United States Virgin Islands.
And where it’s allowed to be watched, the users will see ads when watching the video.

Just a short final thought – copyright in the form we know it now is dying. Companies trying to “protect” their content is ways like this are not winning the customers to their side but losing them, one by one.

Even though this wasn’t an important video for me at all, this incident pisses me off – a lot.

Other (and much shorter) thoughts about copyright and music business can be read here.

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Short notes about music business #5

DJs should be respected and treated as music supporters and promoters by the corporations.

Not as stealers and infringers.

Rather than us paying to the corporations, artist and copyright representatives should rather pay us for promoting their music. As this won’t ever happen, I would refer to my previous note: Music marketing is becoming equal to distribution.

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Short notes about music business #4

DJs should have a right to promote music in all the possible ways (mp3 blogs, podcasts, radio shows).

We should not pay any additional fees (such as Teosto’s digital djing or any file conversion fees).

We buy our music. We pay to the artists. We should not pay to the corporations, who can’t meet the expectations of today’s music business.

We should not fear for additional fees or lawsuit when playing artist promos. (At the moment playing promos gotten directly from any Teosto member is a similar to playing illegally downloaded tracks)

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Short notes about music business #3

What comes to music marketing, creating hype has always been essential.
DJs should not be seen as a bunch of criminals disrespecting copyright, but as an enormous and potential (but neglected) force of marketing.

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Short notes about music business #2

Music marketing is about exposure and discovery. DJs are benefiting both.
Music marketing will be equal to distributing. Not soon, but it will be.

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Short notes about music business #1

If you are a musician and you think a radio show, podcast, DJ-mix or even p2p sharing is not benefiting your business in a long run, you are so not living in the 21st century.

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[I wrote these notes originally by hand over a year ago, but they seem to have needed lots of time to take this form. Originally it was The Future Of Music book that inspired me to make these notes - the book is highly recommended. To find all these short notes, search this blog for "Short notes about music business"]

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DJ Orion (YleX, NRJ, Misc. Management)

Starting in the early nineties from the warehouse raves of the industrial city of Tampere, stirring the Northern Finland electronic music scene for over five years and settling down in Helsinki in 2006, Orion is today one of the busiest DJs in Finland.
DJ Orion
Orion hosts a monthly electronic music radio show on both YleX, the National Radio 1 and Radio NRJ Finland and is also one of the former hosts of Tiistain Tanssi-ilta, the oldest EDM radio show in Finland. Next to his work at Misc. Management, the first Finnish dance music oriented DJ booking agency, he also runs and co-produces the long-lived Jack club in Helsinki and holds a residency in Tampere-based club One.