Comments on: Viva La Vida by Coldplay http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/viva-la-vida-by-coldplay/ Macro Perspective on the Capital Markets, Economy, Geopolitics, Technology, and Digital Media Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:25:27 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Barry Ritholtz http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/viva-la-vida-by-coldplay/comment-page-1/#comment-125105 Barry Ritholtz Sat, 08 Nov 2008 23:20:58 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=7656#comment-125105 Neither: Its via <a href="http://www.imeem.com/aboutimeem/" rel="nofollow">iMeem</a>, which complies with content/copyright rules, and does not allow the full the reproduction of songs on their site. <blockquote>“Audio that you upload to the imeem service will be filtered by an audio fingerprint filtering system that prevents registered audio content from being full-length streamed to any users other than the user that uploaded it.”</blockquote> Now, why would you assume that paying royalties/stealing were the only options ? Are you unfamiliar with Doctrine of Fair Use? Neither: Its via iMeem, which complies with content/copyright rules, and does not allow the full the reproduction of songs on their site.

“Audio that you upload to the imeem service will be filtered by an audio fingerprint filtering system that prevents registered audio content from being full-length streamed to any users other than the user that uploaded it.”

Now, why would you assume that paying royalties/stealing were the only options ? Are you unfamiliar with Doctrine of Fair Use?

]]> By: MChilds http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/viva-la-vida-by-coldplay/comment-page-1/#comment-125065 MChilds Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:13:33 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=7656#comment-125065 Are you paying royalties, or just stealing the content? Are you paying royalties, or just stealing the content?

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