Soon recordings will be a crime
If you visit youtube you will find countless camera-phone video recordings of live performances. These are all illegal according to the copyright law. What looks like over the top, knee-jerk reactions, are actually illegal actions (in US too). I am not sure if I agree with these laws or not (should a photographer allow someone with a digicam to shoot his printed for-sale picture?), but one thing is for certain: we are living in complicated times. It is really not easy to abide to all these laws that govern a modern society. And it’s bound to become more complicated as time goes. I wouldn’t be surprised if a school teaching gets introduced in 50 years from now to educate children as to what is illegal and what is not (about various topics).
I can’t help thinking that if a guy from ancient Greece or Rome was to be transported in our times, he would not stop laughing about some of our modern laws. “That’s so irrelevant, dude…”, I can hear him in my mind saying. How did we manage to be so touchy and snobbish? Our laws reflect these facts so much…
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Memson, as I said in my blog, it is already illegal in US to record live performances. The fact that I just happened to link the australian article does not change that.
Copyright law varies from country to country. This is talking about Australian copyright law. Whether or not such things are illegal in the US is irrelevant – the article is still only talking about the situation in Australia.
A live performance is a potential money spinner (look at what Pearl Jam does/did.. selling an entire tour’s recordings.)
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