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  1. Comment - Microsoft, Yahoo Bridge IM Networks

    (Jul 13, 2006 - 12:10 PM)

    It is indeed up and running. You would have to accept an invite even if you a** a contact within one messenger client anyway, so this is something people are used to I guess.

    As I have both YIM and WLM I tried it with both my IDs. Funny part is how an emoticon you use for WLM changes into the one similar on YIM.

    So far Audibles (YIM) and winks (WLM) don't work, as well as features like filetransfer, etc from WLM, and send file, games, photosharing, etc from YIM.

    One can only hope they will imporve these things soon, would be great IMO.

    PS! A nudge sent from WLM to YIM comes there as a buzz.

  2. Comment - British Record Industry Sues AllofMP3

    (Jul 6, 2006 - 5:45 PM)

    What is this ROMS anyway?

    I am not so sure that ROMS has the rights for licensing intellectual property.

    There are something called collecting societies that artists become mebers of and who the artists then authorize to collect their mechanical righs (composer and lyricist) money, be it from CD sales, radio play, tv, film as well as digital sales. In most cases ones national collecting society has an international greement with collecting societies in other countries.

    Take for instance, if I record an album. When i am done with that I register all the songs with TONO (the norwegian one). When it comes to albums etc released outside Norway, my copyrights are handled and collected by NCB (Nordic Copyright Bureau). NCB again have partners all over the world, and I just checked ROMS is not the one for russia, that's RAO. That should mean that RAO is more likely the one authorized by TONO/NCB to collect on their behalf for sales, radio play etc in Russia.

    It's like GEMA does for Germany, and ASCAP/BMI does in the US.

    With music registered through such organizations the general length the music is protected is from the day of registration and 70 years after the copyright holders death.

  3. Comment - British Record Industry Sues AllofMP3

    (Jul 5, 2006 - 11:11 AM)

    AllofMP3 do have several artists listed that one could put under the umbrella small artists and even small labels (as their labels are small in comparisons to Major labels). For example just looking briefly at AllofMP3.com and artists here is a few small artists/labels in their catalogue:
    Raison d`Etre, Blood Axis, Ulver, Elend, Arcana, Lustmord, Stoa, Autumn Tears and so on...

    As being an artist myself, such a site as AllofMP3 should have my written permission or in the cases other labels has released it the labels permission to put it available for download sales. Simply they need a contract for digital sales, otherwise it is stealing or bootlegging the music. Maybe Russia do have weak copyright laws to prevet piracy, which this is. Nevertheless it do have to end.