[...] Raw Story [...]

If you file a lawsuit after suffering 3rd degree burns and find out that the company has had over 700 customer complaints, people say it is frivolous. If you are a company that sues small groups for singing Happy Birthday you are engaged in “copyright enforcement”.

If you file a lawsuit after suffering 3rd degree burns and find out that the company has had over 700 customer complaints, people say it is frivolous. If you are a company that sues small groups for singing Happy Birthday you are engaged in “copyright enforcement”.

If you file a lawsuit after suffering 3rd degree burns and find out that the company has had over 700 customer complaints, people say it is frivolous. If you are a company that sues small groups for singing Happy Birthday you are engaged in “copyright enforcement”.

[...] Raw Story [...]

Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water……..
Unfortuntally the well was copyrighted so they ended up being sued for infringment. Jack and Jills parents eventually won the suit but the immense legal bills caused them to get behind on their mortgage resulting in them to losing the house. Last heard the entire family was living out of a car somewhere south of Chigaco. Meanwhile the lawyers for both parties are currently vacationing in the same ski resort in Aspen.
The End

Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water……..
Unfortuntally the well was copyrighted so they ended up being sued for infringment. Jack and Jills parents eventually won the suit but the immense legal bills caused them to get behind on their mortgage resulting in them to losing the house. Last heard the entire family was living out of a car somewhere south of Chigaco. Meanwhile the lawyers for both parties are currently vacationing in the same ski resort in Aspen.
The End

Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water……..
Unfortuntally the well was copyrighted so they ended up being sued for infringment. Jack and Jills parents eventually won the suit but the immense legal bills caused them to get behind on their mortgage resulting in them to losing the house. Last heard the entire family was living out of a car somewhere south of Chigaco. Meanwhile the lawyers for both parties are currently vacationing in the same ski resort in Aspen.
The End

[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by The Raw Story, Tom, Max Hernández Calvo and others. Max Hernández Calvo said: SGAE alemana tan imbecil como la española RT @usrealitycheck: German kindergartens ordered to pay copyright for songs http://bit.ly/hEn0kL [...]

Copyrights?

I didn’t know that song was copyrighted. The you know Ha… irthday.. song. I didn’t want to spell out the whole song because of the three strikes you know.

Why is it that artists get’s to claim copyright to a work of art and the laborer has no right to the product the labor produced? Is there something fucked up about this?

Fair wages has been a lie.

The word spin “entitlement” is a lie as well. Look at it this way. The so called entitlement is actually an entitlement to the owners of production. To see how this is so read on.

The owners of production pays the worker such low wages that the worker and his family qualifies for the safety net such as food stamps. This means the owners of production doesn’t have to pay a decent wage because the food stamps helps the worker get by. If there were no food stamps the workers of this nation would certainly demand higher wages in order to provide for his family.

The food stamp is actually a hand out to the owners of production. The food stamp allowed the owners of production the ability to offer only low wages. Low wages is the owners of productions profit and food stamps helped the owners of production’s profit.

Now that the unemployment is sent through the roof the owners of production will end the food stamps and watch the workers fight each other for that job which pays shit.

Owners of production also wants to end minimum wage laws, meaning even lower wages that no one can exist on. It’s either that or homelessness. That is what is in store for America.

So when will the copyright clowns fight for the worker? When will these copyright clowns take note that the product is also the copyright of the laborer because the laborer made the product.

And the Germans thought they had got rid of Fascism, eh? Are they in for a rude awakening when they realize that the NeoFascism was made in the USA.

There’s a new wave out there now of copyright lawsuits courtesy of the rapacious corporations. They canvass the internet for anything and everything like just a quote and go after everybody. It’s the new and improved disaster Capitalism at its best.

Uh, yes it is copyrighted. It gets worse. The two ladies who wrote the song never made even a single penny off their work. The song was copyrighted by another entity.

The copyright companies ARE protecting the rights of songwriters… not necessarily the artists who make money of a piece. I guess everybody, including musicians, think the songs just come out of whole cloth and the people who made it should never expect to make any money from their creation.

Before copyright laws accquired serious teeth, record labels and artists would often NOT pay royalties to songwriters who refused to surrender their copyrights so the label pocketed all the money.

If a musician wants to never have to pay royalties, write your own songs, but NEVER expect to be paid PRO fees for singing them in clubs, because the licenses those clubs pay for are distributed here in the US among the writers who have charting hits… not the individual schlub who’s singing his own songs only.

BTW, schools and churches have been paying royalties on music and plays for decades.

Uh, yes it is copyrighted. It gets worse. The two ladies who wrote the song never made even a single penny off their work. The song was copyrighted by another entity.

The copyright companies ARE protecting the rights of songwriters… not necessarily the artists who make money of a piece. I guess everybody, including musicians, think the songs just come out of whole cloth and the people who made it should never expect to make any money from their creation.

Before copyright laws accquired serious teeth, record labels and artists would often NOT pay royalties to songwriters who refused to surrender their copyrights so the label pocketed all the money.

If a musician wants to never have to pay royalties, write your own songs, but NEVER expect to be paid PRO fees for singing them in clubs, because the licenses those clubs pay for are distributed here in the US among the writers who have charting hits… not the individual schlub who’s singing his own songs only.

BTW, schools and churches have been paying royalties on music and plays for decades.

There needs to be (and no doubt, will be) major changes in copyright and intellectual property law. The digital age has completely changed the paradigm of distribution and “art and ideas by the unit” can no longer be controlled or accounted for. The old way was to control the medium by which they were distributed and consumed (VHS, CD, DVD, Books, etc…) These are finite and verifiable numbers of copies. It just doesn’t work that way any more, and laws written around the old paradigm won’t work either.

There needs to be (and no doubt, will be) major changes in copyright and intellectual property law. The digital age has completely changed the paradigm of distribution and “art and ideas by the unit” can no longer be controlled or accounted for. The old way was to control the medium by which they were distributed and consumed (VHS, CD, DVD, Books, etc…) These are finite and verifiable numbers of copies. It just doesn’t work that way any more, and laws written around the old paradigm won’t work either.

damn those preschoolers. Criminals every single one of them for not paying into the coffers of the beyond rich.

I hear that Dick Cheney owns the copyright to “Deutchland Über Alles.”

I hear that Dick Cheney owns the copyright to “Deutchland Über Alles.”

Maybe, just maybe, the kids could be allowed to sing those old Third Reich marching songs for free.

As a musician working in Germany for 15 years, I can tell you that GEMA are truly terrible, evil bastards. They are killing a huge swathe of music venues by charging exorbinant rates to small cafes and bars who just want a guy and his guitar to entertain the guests for a few hours. Basically, they are wiping out the places where fledgling musicians can go to learn their craft, places where seasoned pros can do a one-off for drink money, and all grass-roots theater and variety venues that let working class schmoes sing and dance. All just so Mick Jagger can get another Rolls Royce this year. Crap-ola!!!!

where the f do we draw the line?

The sleaze ball copyright agents are trying to copyright history. How far back do you go? :
A Roman Army marching song? Mozart practice sessions? Every Jazz variation on a theme?
To unplug a generation of youth because of pig-claims to ownership of their minds…..cannot be tolerated.

In France, on the other hand, their version of ASCAP is really good. Everyone involved in the making of the album, from the song writer to the producer down to the guy with the tamborine get a cut, and it actually benefits the ones who need money the most. THey are also much looser about applying the law than in Germany, who are basically gangsters.

I was looking at getting a Kindle and some e-books for a family member bookworm at Christmas until I read the disclaimer regarding e-books at fictionwise.com. It very solemnly warns that emailing or otherwise sharing an e-book with someone else is a felony punishable by heavy fines and possible jail time under the DMCA.

So I can actually be subject to draconian sanctions for doing the electronic equivalent of allowing a friend to read a book that I just finished? Fuck those greedy bastards. I will never, ever buy another e-book as long as I live. I wound up getting a gift certificate to Borders.

Word. All great musicians admit to borrowing ideas and tunes, its called tradition.

Great musicians do acknowledge tradition and borrowing….but that isn’t rights payments and ownership…who owns what? In some parts of Europe, an artist is forbidden to sell his work. He can rent it but not sell it. Artistic Intellectual properties are considered cultural icons.( Worth checking once someone asks for copyright fees.)

Mazel….

We’ll probably screw that up too.

This copyright crap is getting seriously out of hand.

Now let’s all sing together:-
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday dear Johnny
Happy birthday to you.

SO SUE ME! EEARRGH!!

replace Fox “news” with GEMA….
http://videos.sapo.pt/qjMq7bC7GEsKmUM8FDMo

replace Fox “news” with GEMA….
http://videos.sapo.pt/qjMq7bC7GEsKmUM8FDMo

replace Fox “news” with GEMA….
http://videos.sapo.pt/qjMq7bC7GEsKmUM8FDMo

replace Fox “news” with GEMA….
http://videos.sapo.pt/qjMq7bC7GEsKmUM8FDMo

replace Fox “news” with GEMA….
http://videos.sapo.pt/qjMq7bC7GEsKmUM8FDMo

‘Aschen Poodel’ is an ancient German folk tale about a poor peasant girl who marries her prince. We call it ‘Cinderella’.
How much does Disney owe the German GEMA council?
Snow White? (The dwarfs are called Heinzel-Menchen in Germany where they are from.)

‘Aschen Poodel’ is an ancient German folk tale about a poor peasant girl who marries her prince. We call it ‘Cinderella’.
How much does Disney owe the German GEMA council?
Snow White? (The dwarfs are called Heinzel-Menchen in Germany where they are from.)

‘Aschen Poodel’ is an ancient German folk tale about a poor peasant girl who marries her prince. We call it ‘Cinderella’.
How much does Disney owe the German GEMA council?
Snow White? (The dwarfs are called Heinzel-Menchen in Germany where they are from.)

‘Aschen Poodel’ is an ancient German folk tale about a poor peasant girl who marries her prince. We call it ‘Cinderella’.
How much does Disney owe the German GEMA council?
Snow White? (The dwarfs are called Heinzel-Menchen in Germany where they are from.)

Current copyright laws exist to serve corporations, not society or even the artist, and thereby stifle creativity and centuries of fair use precedent. And as current copyrights approach their expiration, corporations will demand even greater extensions of copyright, maybe up to 500 years.

As for “Happy Birthday”, the American copyright on this song written over more than several decades ago will expire in 2030. Legal experts and copyright academics have argued, rather convincingly, that the copyright expired long ago or never existed: that no one can be bothered to challenge the copyright in court, either due to a lack of funds, or because they don’t want their own copyrights challenged. See: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1111624

Also: http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_04_27-2008_05_03.shtml#1209497924

Current copyright laws exist to serve corporations, not society or even the artist, and thereby stifle creativity and centuries of fair use precedent. And as current copyrights approach their expiration, corporations will demand even greater extensions of copyright, maybe up to 500 years.

As for “Happy Birthday”, the American copyright on this song written over more than several decades ago will expire in 2030. Legal experts and copyright academics have argued, rather convincingly, that the copyright expired long ago or never existed: that no one can be bothered to challenge the copyright in court, either due to a lack of funds, or because they don’t want their own copyrights challenged. See: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1111624

Also: http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_04_27-2008_05_03.shtml#1209497924

Current copyright laws exist to serve corporations, not society or even the artist, and thereby stifle creativity and centuries of fair use precedent. And as current copyrights approach their expiration, corporations will demand even greater extensions of copyright, maybe up to 500 years.

As for “Happy Birthday”, the American copyright on this song written over more than several decades ago will expire in 2030. Legal experts and copyright academics have argued, rather convincingly, that the copyright expired long ago or never existed: that no one can be bothered to challenge the copyright in court, either due to a lack of funds, or because they don’t want their own copyrights challenged. See: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1111624

Also: http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_04_27-2008_05_03.shtml#1209497924

Current copyright laws exist to serve corporations, not society or even the artist, and thereby stifle creativity and centuries of fair use precedent. And as current copyrights approach their expiration, corporations will demand even greater extensions of copyright, maybe up to 500 years.

As for “Happy Birthday”, the American copyright on this song written over more than several decades ago will expire in 2030. Legal experts and copyright academics have argued, rather convincingly, that the copyright expired long ago or never existed: that no one can be bothered to challenge the copyright in court, either due to a lack of funds, or because they don’t want their own copyrights challenged. See: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1111624

Also: http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_04_27-2008_05_03.shtml#1209497924

“I may be crazy, but I ain’t no fool
I live my life by the golden rule
That money can’t buy everything it’s true
Yeah, but what it won’t buy, I can’t use
I want Love or Money
Gimme Love, or gimme Money
My baby loved me, when I was down
Yeah, but now I’m up, and she’s still around
And she’s got a sports car, credit cards , her clothes are the best
If we’re still alive, I wouldn’t put it to the test no, no!
She wants Love, and a whole lotta money
A whole lotta love, and a whole lotta money
Gimme love or Money, gimme Love or Money
She said Money honey
That’s what I want, is a whole lotta Money”

- Sammy Hegar

Pardon my German but F++K (GEMA)

We used to call this Fair Use.

Now its just another avenue for corporate profit.

Copyright is becoming a weapon against common people.

We used to call this Fair Use.

Now its just another avenue for corporate profit.

Copyright is becoming a weapon against common people.

Sounds like some typical German shit except I know a daycare here who was sued by Disney for having Goofy and Mickey painted on the walls.

“typical German shit” — Nope. This transcends borders, as do the Corporations that foster it, and has done so for decades.

“typical German shit” — Nope. This transcends borders, as do the Corporations that foster it, and has done so for decades.

“typical German shit” — Nope. This transcends borders, as do the Corporations that foster it, and has done so for decades.

“typical German shit” — Nope. This transcends borders, as do the Corporations that foster it, and has done so for decades.

everthing created by humanity should, sooner or later, fall under fair use – and it should be sooner or later. this is just another example of the conflicy between the Commons, shared by us all, and the corporate greed and radical monoply that presently seeks to exploit all areas of the Commons for their private profit.

http://www.theVenusProject.com

http://www.theVenusProject.com

http://www.theVenusProject.com

http://www.theVenusProject.com

http://www.theVenusProject.com

I buy a toaster and am guaranteed its use for a year.
Why should “copyright” be longer?
Copyright owners should be guaranteed their income for a year – after that – Fair Use.
Next they’ll be fining me +/or dragging me off to jail ‘cos I hum some old song around the house.
It’s time for common sense and not Yankee greed to rule.

Good Morning Children. Today’s word is “Sieg” Can you all say “Sieg”?

Tomorrow’s word is “Heil”. Come back tomorrow as we all say “Seig Heil”

Oh the irony of this happening in the good ole third reich

[...] See http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/german-kindergartens-ordered-pay-copyright-songs/ [...]

Yankee greed? Where do you think all the republicans who are supportive of the music industries BS come from? Us northerners are the ones fighting this crap, clearly your in the south and have the same IQ as most of the rest of the south. Man can we do over the civil war and just let the south secede? The north USA would be a much better place, well you can have the dakotas too bunch of hicks must of done a ton of inbreeding there also

Yankee greed? Where do you think all the republicans who are supportive of the music industries BS come from? Us northerners are the ones fighting this crap, clearly your in the south and have the same IQ as most of the rest of the south. Man can we do over the civil war and just let the south secede? The north USA would be a much better place, well you can have the dakotas too bunch of hicks must of done a ton of inbreeding there also

South of Berlin, perhaps.

South of Berlin, perhaps.

I ain’t no ‘Merican.
Ya’re all Yankees to me.
Sorry :-)

But thanx for the Dakotas.

“Why is it that artists get’s to claim copyright to a work of art and the laborer has no right to the product the labor produced? Is there something fucked up about this?”

Keep this up and one day when you buy a house you’ll be paying the bricklayers for the rest of you life.

Soon Libraries will be illegal

Soon Libraries will be illegal

I have patented air. Everyone that breathes any air at all owes me $30,000 for every breath you take.

Oops! I wrote ‘every breath you take’, which is a copyrighted song, therefore I’ll be sued by the RIAA for $12M! Damn!

I have patented air. Everyone that breathes any air at all owes me $30,000 for every breath you take.

Oops! I wrote ‘every breath you take’, which is a copyrighted song, therefore I’ll be sued by the RIAA for $12M! Damn!

I have patented air. Everyone that breathes any air at all owes me $30,000 for every breath you take.

Oops! I wrote ‘every breath you take’, which is a copyrighted song, therefore I’ll be sued by the RIAA for $12M! Damn!

don’t stand so close to me or I may get sued too,crap………..

I want to hear another song!
Tom Delay’s sentencing started Dec 20,
When will we hear the judge sing that sweet refrain…

Well, the truth is that everyone should make their own song up.
It is pitiful how the world is so unmusically able.
Your song is just as good as Lennons!
Take back your right to compose and distribute your song!

Greetings,

Before the crash of ’08, I owned a commercial media production facility. I mostly recorded musicians but I also did film work, ADR, commercials, etc. One day I get a call from a guy claiming to be a rep from a record company and he said he wanted to use my facility to record and film a music video. I had a rather large facility and we did everything from Idol to fashion shoots so a request like this wasn’t unusual.

The guy shows up and talks the talk but insists that I show him the version numbers of my software so as to “be compatible” with the software at their mastering studio. The Version Number screen also shows license and registration info.

Our meeting was rather odd as the guy continued to focus on our software which, for someone wanting to record and then film a music video, should be the least of worries. After he left, we started doing a lot of research.

Well, this guy was wearing a secret camera and was recording the encounter. Had I been using illegal software I would have been required to give these people $30,000 dollars and sign paperwork agreeing to the demand that they could come into my facility any time they wanted to audit any and all of my computers. If I had refused, I would have been taken to court where the costs would have been even greater.

I was legit so I did some research and found out who the company was that had sent the spy. I called them as well as the companies the spy was spying for and explained to them that they had f*cked with the wrong person and that I was dedicating all the powers of my production facility to making media that would make them look stupid. I could do it too as I’ve had documentaries on PBS and films that you may or may not have seen in the theatre.

I had writers, musicians, directors, etc that all owed me favors and the cost of making them look stupid wouldn’t have been very much.

Anyway, these agents had “busted” 504 companies in the United States for using pirated music software. Do the math. That is over $15,000,000 dollars and the right to “inspect” the facilities caught.

As for me, my threats earned me thousands and thousands of dollars worth of free software and some other perks – two can play this game.

Finally, this kind of thing happens all the time as companies will intentionally released “cracked” software knowing that some companies will use it and they get their money through the use of spies.

Crazy huh?

Greetings,

Before the crash of ’08, I owned a commercial media production facility. I mostly recorded musicians but I also did film work, ADR, commercials, etc. One day I get a call from a guy claiming to be a rep from a record company and he said he wanted to use my facility to record and film a music video. I had a rather large facility and we did everything from Idol to fashion shoots so a request like this wasn’t unusual.

The guy shows up and talks the talk but insists that I show him the version numbers of my software so as to “be compatible” with the software at their mastering studio. The Version Number screen also shows license and registration info.

Our meeting was rather odd as the guy continued to focus on our software which, for someone wanting to record and then film a music video, should be the least of worries. After he left, we started doing a lot of research.

Well, this guy was wearing a secret camera and was recording the encounter. Had I been using illegal software I would have been required to give these people $30,000 dollars and sign paperwork agreeing to the demand that they could come into my facility any time they wanted to audit any and all of my computers. If I had refused, I would have been taken to court where the costs would have been even greater.

I was legit so I did some research and found out who the company was that had sent the spy. I called them as well as the companies the spy was spying for and explained to them that they had f*cked with the wrong person and that I was dedicating all the powers of my production facility to making media that would make them look stupid. I could do it too as I’ve had documentaries on PBS and films that you may or may not have seen in the theatre.

I had writers, musicians, directors, etc that all owed me favors and the cost of making them look stupid wouldn’t have been very much.

Anyway, these agents had “busted” 504 companies in the United States for using pirated music software. Do the math. That is over $15,000,000 dollars and the right to “inspect” the facilities caught.

As for me, my threats earned me thousands and thousands of dollars worth of free software and some other perks – two can play this game.

Finally, this kind of thing happens all the time as companies will intentionally released “cracked” software knowing that some companies will use it and they get their money through the use of spies.

Crazy huh?

Greetings,

Before the crash of ’08, I owned a commercial media production facility. I mostly recorded musicians but I also did film work, ADR, commercials, etc. One day I get a call from a guy claiming to be a rep from a record company and he said he wanted to use my facility to record and film a music video. I had a rather large facility and we did everything from Idol to fashion shoots so a request like this wasn’t unusual.

The guy shows up and talks the talk but insists that I show him the version numbers of my software so as to “be compatible” with the software at their mastering studio. The Version Number screen also shows license and registration info.

Our meeting was rather odd as the guy continued to focus on our software which, for someone wanting to record and then film a music video, should be the least of worries. After he left, we started doing a lot of research.

Well, this guy was wearing a secret camera and was recording the encounter. Had I been using illegal software I would have been required to give these people $30,000 dollars and sign paperwork agreeing to the demand that they could come into my facility any time they wanted to audit any and all of my computers. If I had refused, I would have been taken to court where the costs would have been even greater.

I was legit so I did some research and found out who the company was that had sent the spy. I called them as well as the companies the spy was spying for and explained to them that they had f*cked with the wrong person and that I was dedicating all the powers of my production facility to making media that would make them look stupid. I could do it too as I’ve had documentaries on PBS and films that you may or may not have seen in the theatre.

I had writers, musicians, directors, etc that all owed me favors and the cost of making them look stupid wouldn’t have been very much.

Anyway, these agents had “busted” 504 companies in the United States for using pirated music software. Do the math. That is over $15,000,000 dollars and the right to “inspect” the facilities caught.

As for me, my threats earned me thousands and thousands of dollars worth of free software and some other perks – two can play this game.

Finally, this kind of thing happens all the time as companies will intentionally released “cracked” software knowing that some companies will use it and they get their money through the use of spies.

Crazy huh?

Greetings,

Before the crash of ’08, I owned a commercial media production facility. I mostly recorded musicians but I also did film work, ADR, commercials, etc. One day I get a call from a guy claiming to be a rep from a record company and he said he wanted to use my facility to record and film a music video. I had a rather large facility and we did everything from Idol to fashion shoots so a request like this wasn’t unusual.

The guy shows up and talks the talk but insists that I show him the version numbers of my software so as to “be compatible” with the software at their mastering studio. The Version Number screen also shows license and registration info.

Our meeting was rather odd as the guy continued to focus on our software which, for someone wanting to record and then film a music video, should be the least of worries. After he left, we started doing a lot of research.

Well, this guy was wearing a secret camera and was recording the encounter. Had I been using illegal software I would have been required to give these people $30,000 dollars and sign paperwork agreeing to the demand that they could come into my facility any time they wanted to audit any and all of my computers. If I had refused, I would have been taken to court where the costs would have been even greater.

I was legit so I did some research and found out who the company was that had sent the spy. I called them as well as the companies the spy was spying for and explained to them that they had f*cked with the wrong person and that I was dedicating all the powers of my production facility to making media that would make them look stupid. I could do it too as I’ve had documentaries on PBS and films that you may or may not have seen in the theatre.

I had writers, musicians, directors, etc that all owed me favors and the cost of making them look stupid wouldn’t have been very much.

Anyway, these agents had “busted” 504 companies in the United States for using pirated music software. Do the math. That is over $15,000,000 dollars and the right to “inspect” the facilities caught.

As for me, my threats earned me thousands and thousands of dollars worth of free software and some other perks – two can play this game.

Finally, this kind of thing happens all the time as companies will intentionally released “cracked” software knowing that some companies will use it and they get their money through the use of spies.

Crazy huh?

“I was dedicating all the powers of my production facility to making media that would make them look stupid. I could do it too as I’ve had documentaries on PBS and films that you may or may not have seen in the theatre.”

OK. Where are they?
I wanna see the one where they look stoopid and what the names of those on PBS and in the theatres?

This one still makes me fall off the chair laughing!

Greetings,

No, I’ve done documentaries that were featured on PBS. I did not have to make any music or video making these companies that spied look stupid because they immediately gave me all the things I asked for.

Look, time is money and these guys wasted my morning with their phony bullsh*t about being with a record label and their need to film a music video. Furthermore, the legitimate software wont work unless a USB dongle that is registered to me is plugged into the machine. A check of company records would have shown that I was a long time customer in good standing.

Blinded by greed, these guys went to every facility in town with their act. Why should I tolerate some a$$hole coming into my facility wearing a hidden camera hoping for a cut of my fine? Furthermore, I’m not going to name the company but their software somehow always manages to appear all over the place perfectly cracked and ready to be used. For the longest time I couldn’t figure out why but now I know.

[...] German kindergartens ordered to pay copyright for songs | Raw Story. Share and [...]

Okay
Whatever.
Your first article just made me think I’d like to see some of your work.
Have a nice day.

Okay
Whatever.
Your first article just made me think I’d like to see some of your work.
Have a nice day.

[...] Your kindergarten didn’t pay fees for the songs it used in class??!!  You must not be from Germany then.  That’s the country where you’ll find the piracy police currently patrolling the tiny [...]