Whoever's made hordes of Joy Division live material available on Audiogalaxy should be profusely thanked as well as know that Audiogalaxy is locking out the tracks for copyright reasons, i.e. no one can download them. Maybe you can change the titles of the mp3 files?
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I forgot to mention... Audiogalaxy is deleting these for "copyright reasons", although there is currently no copyright in effect on these recordings. It doesn't make any sense to me...
Audiogalaxy don't actually "delete" the files because they aren't Audiogalaxy's files, they are the files stored on the users computers, they simply block access to the files.
Originally posted by Morris Fan I forgot to mention... Audiogalaxy is deleting these for "copyright reasons", although there is currently no copyright in effect on these recordings. It doesn't make any sense to me...
Just because a song is performed live doesn't mean that no copyrights are attached to this song -- quite the contrary, actually! The artists always have copyrights on their artistic work. These songs, they have WRITTEN them in order to play them live and to record them into studio, and that, in itself, gives them copyright on these songs.
The record companies do not, usually, have copyrights on the songs performed live as long as they aren't released on an album or single... unless the artist licenced the copyrights of the songs themselves, and not only of the audio recording (album, single, etc.).
I, for one, think that live bootlegs, especially when they're from audience recordings, do not hurt in ANY WAY the sales of the albums, but can only increase them IMHO by giving the band exposure, maintaining the interest of the fans towards the band, etc.
Of course, the record companies and a lot of artists have a very different opinion on that, and strictly speaking, the law is on their side and it's their absolute right to control their artistic work.
If we were asked to remove the audio files of live performances New Order did throughout the years from this website, we would, but we were never asked to do so.
I think, in the end, it's a matter of common sense.
Seb.
Point well taken - live songs are indeed copyrighted. But I'm fairly sure that the ones on AG are actually poor-sound-quality bootlegs, so only dedicated fans - who will buy the music when or if it's actually released - would even care in the first place. So maybe the issue is that the copyright, here at least, isn't all that relevant..
