Prince in no fan of sites
The British firm Web Sheriff is sending out orders to fans to remove content that may be a violation of copyright and threatening to sue for damages on behalf of the artist. Several of the largest web communities dedicated to the artist have received notices to cease and desist all use of photographs, images, lyrics, album covers and anything linked to Prince's likeness. Prince's representatives have requested that the fansites provide them with "substantive details of the means by which you [the fansites] propose to compensate our clients [Paisley Park Enterprises, NPG Records and Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG)] for damages." This is a very counter-intuitive marketing move for an artist in a struggling industry. However, when has Prince ever done things in a conventional way.
Prince Fans Unite: The owners of the three largest fansites supporting Prince: housequake.com, princefams.com and prince.org supporting Prince have come together to fight back to what amounts to an injustice to the fansites and the very fans who have supported Prince's career, many since the very beginning nearly thirty years ago. While the owners of these sites acknowledge that, while Prince is entitled to control of his copyrights, it should be within the law. The law clearly provides for displaying of images of a celebrity's likeness for newsworthy events or matters which are considered to be public interest. All three websites feel that the photographs and/or likeness displayed on their websites clearly fall within the public interest category. Interesting take on copyright law.
Maybe Prince can give the site owners a free copy of Planet Earth and a The Mail on Sunday newspaper in exchange for removing all of his content. Or maybe he could give them each something personal and unique to add to their respective sites for being loyal fans all these years. Either way, Prince is again in the news even though he has not had a top 10 us single in over 13 years and is more than 20 years removed from his heyday of Purple Rain and Sign o' the Times.
posted by TheWino @ 3:41 PM
5 Comments:
or ... maybe Prince is sick of people using the music and lyrics that HE wrote and posting them on fan sites to make money on banner ads? He owns the rights to his music and lyrics, and he dictates who can do what with it, and I think it is kind of cool that he is hosing some punk-assed fan club and asking for a piece of their traffic booty.
"Stop stealing my shit or pay me some money for it" seems like a reasonable request to me...
Residuals... Now there's an idea. Maybe the TV industry should look into that with the writers....
Lee Lee said...
J-man, didn't know you were a fan!
Sounds reasonable to me ;)
I am a republican, no scratch that. I am a fiscal conservative working in the design field. If you dream up some good shit, you should get paid well for it.
Now, those namby-pamby union writers need to realize that we don't need 250 cable channels to support all of the crap these writer are spewing out. How would you like to be Tina Fey or Jay Leno fighting so that some schmoe can get his residuals for writing a "Manimal" or "Cop Rock" episode? That's right E! I said "Manimal"!
For those who don't know... "Dr. Jonathan Chase... wealthy, young, handsome. A man with the brightest of futures. A man with the darkest of pasts. From Africa's deepest recesses, to the rarefied peaks of Tibet, heir to his father's legacy and the world's darkest mysteries. Jonathan Chase, master of the secrets that divide man from animal, animal from man... Manimal."
You can check out the opening credits: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEg1ncu37MQ
I can't beleive it lasted 8 episodes. Man the 80's had some pretty bad tv.
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