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April 10, 2008
Universal Music Group is fucking you "Generous!"
Hey, radio disc jockey/magazine or newspaper album reviewer: You know those promotional CD's you get* in the mail from record companies hoping that you'll hype their product?
Well, turns out that Universal Music Group is claiming that they still own those disks, and, citing copyright infringement, is suing at least one ebay seller for resellling the discs he bought at a used CD store. Not only can you not sell these promo CD's, according to UMG, but you can't give, or even throw, them away. (Don't want the hobos scoring any free Def Leppard.)
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is taking the UMG to task. Thanks, Consumerist.
* = Maxim magazine: No.
Previously: Ticketmaster
Posted by Randall Monty at April 10, 2008 11:31 PM
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My question on this has always been: What are you supposed to do with all the records you hate? Those suckers take up a lot of space at home, if you save all of them for fear that there's no "gap time" after which labels no longer ask for them back. I'd be curious to see if record labels will start sending digital copies in place of CDs in order to save money on the mass mailings for album reviews - particularly the major labels which, no doubt, churn out a lot of crap that ends up in the Amoeba clearance bin six months later.
Posted by: China at April 12, 2008 11:59 PM
