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Amazon "DRM-free" MP3 can get you sued

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Amazon's new DRM-free mp3 store has a very restrictive user agreement, which requires user to agree "that you will not redistribute, transmit, assign, sell, broadcast, rent, share, lend, modify, adapt, edit, sub-license or otherwise transfer or use the Digital Content."

What does this mean? If you use Amazon MP3 in your pods, you'll be violating the Amazon's user agreement, even if Current's music department clears it with the record label. Fair use is also potentially excluded, since this is restrictions in addition to standard copyright.
MessyP

2 responses // Amazon "DRM-free" MP3 can get you sued

  • MessP is back on the scene! Hella <sic> yeah!
    joebrilliant
  • I hate it that copyright law basically assumes we are always consumers, never creators. One of my favorite things about the Creative Commons alternative is that it has a sort of deeper respect for widespread creativity -- for normal people as producers of culture -- baked into it.

    Whaddya think -- will Creative Commons (or some other alternate regime) actually get traction in the next generation? Or are we stuck with copyright?
    sloan

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