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The bizarre case of the anti-piracy people accused of piracy has finally concluded, with Dutch musician Melchior Rietveldt winning his royalties case for unauthorised use of his music by a Hollywood-backed copyright group.
Rietveldt was originally contracted by anti-piracy group BREIN to compose a piece of music to feature in an advert about how bad and wrong pirating stuff off the internet is. He was then assured he’d be paid for all further uses of the track, but… wasn’t. And wasn’t even told it had been used elsewhere until he heard it on a Harry Potter DVD.
A Dutch court has found BREIN was wrong to sell on his music without permission or payment, with Rietveldt’s track eventually finding its way into 71 commercial DVD releases. Local royalty collector Stemra has been ordered to pay his costs and pursue distributors for all the money the musician is owed. [TorrentFreak via TechEye]
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haha.
isnt it the case that a lot of artists dont get paid when their record companies allow their tracks to be on compilation CDs too. Bloody hypocrites.
Simply an example that these anti-piracy orgs believe Copyright applies to everyone else but them
Think about this, you could get 5 years in jail for uploading a Michael Jackson track! that’s 1 year more than the Dr found guilty of killing him
Errr… Do as I say and not as I do.
Or else…? I sue.
is that on the RIAA Xmas cards?
Great story – just largely wrong. BREIN was not found guilty of anything. A collecting society underpaid his royalties – it is a civil matter.