Comments on: Dutch copyright group accused of pirating its anti-piracy anthem, music collecting society boss seeks 33% finders' fee for getting musician paid

By: piltdown

piltdown — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:46:00 +0000

“Mr. Rietveldt should at least acknowledge that his is a muzak ripoff of Prodidy/Tom Morello on their Spawn soundtrack contribution.”

LOL. Nice.

By: sabik

sabik — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:42:00 +0000

“You wouldn’t steal a soundtrack!”

By: SoItBegins

SoItBegins — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:57:00 +0000

[1] Oh, it’s those anti-piracy ads. I always found them gloriously pointless.
[2] Irony!

By: stuck411

stuck411 — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:54:00 +0000

//chuckle// in the USA the cadre of lawyers that works to find the money owed to artists is busy at work collecting the money. But they have a long list of people they can’t locate. Some years ago a reporter looking at their list of ‘lost’ artists found Ted Nugent’s name. Yep, same guy with TV hunting shows and one time with a reality show. Seemed they were holding onto a couple hundred grand of his money for a good decade.

By: shadowfirebird

shadowfirebird — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:56:00 +0000

Regardless; writing a song that is similar to another song isn’t plagiarism. And unless it is, it has no bearing on copyright.

By: Artimus Mangilord

Artimus Mangilord — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:19:00 +0000

Mr. Rietveldt should at least acknowledge that his is a muzak ripoff of Prodidy/Tom Morello on their Spawn soundtrack contribution. Then again, both are bad enough that perhaps it’s protected as parody…

Mr. Rietveldt’s anti-piracy anthem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmZm8vNHBSU

Prodigy/Tom Morello: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9bwH2L2JBo

By: Mordicai

Mordicai — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:16:00 +0000

Maybe we need somebody whose job it is to make sure that when the businessmen are left holding the money, they go to jail for being thieves.

By: nixiebunny

nixiebunny — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:09:00 +0000

The last word of the article is “sickening.” Sickening, perhaps, but quite commonplace. Whenever you get artists and businessmen in the same room, you can guess who’ll be left holding the money. After all, the job of a businessman is to be left holding the money.