MySpace is cracking down on users who illegally upload copyrighted music to their profiles.
Gracenote is powering MySpace’s copyright crackdown
MySpace has licensed a new “audio fingerprinting” technology from Gracenote, which will allow it to review music uploaded to members’ profiles.
The technology compares the upload with copyrighted material in Gracenote’s database and blocks illegal uploads.
Users who repeatedly try to upload copyrighted material will have their accounts deleted.
The move comes after growing pressure from record labels.
Of course it’s not surprising that MySpace’s corporate master, namely News Corporation, is taking steps to remove some of the legal risk surrounding its MySpace investment.
The big question is whether MySpace will still continue to be cool as little by little it gets cleaned up and becomes a lot less like the Wild West and more like Disney Land.
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Responses to “MySpace to block illegal music”
November 4th, 2006 at 8:22 pm
What you describe is absolutely illegal! When you download a track from iTunes all you’re buying is the right to listen to the track, not the right to republish it.
November 9th, 2006 at 3:43 pm
That’s a shame. If I buy music, I should be able to do what I want with it. If I want to upload it to my website (which I don’t have at the moment), I should be able to do that. All this “controlling the masses” is getting out of hand. Pretty soon, we won’t be able to do anything. As the years go by, little by little, we won’t be able to do anything. You might as well put redolin in the drinking water to controll people.
January 1st, 2007 at 11:06 pm
I have music in MP3 format that was taped live in a church by myself, if i upload this music will it be illegal?
July 20th, 2007 at 4:50 am
So, if i purchase a CD, i should be able to burn it to mp3 to listen to on my portable device, and I SHOULD have the right to play it on my freakin myspace page.
November 1st, 2006 at 2:32 am
Thanks for the head’s up. Dumb question - if you buy a song and download it to iTunes (or another service) and then upload it to a host and then embed it in your page, will that be considered an illegal upload? I’m new to all this so please forgive my ignorance.