Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Shut up and never sing again, it's illegal.

In France there are legal actions planned to close every websites publishing lyrics, because this is stealing.

the French law project, which is a direct transcription of the European EUCD (equivalent of the American DMCA)

In America, actions will be taken against websites publishing tabs (guitar scores, to make it short), because this is stealing.

a BBC article about it

Somewhere in the future, someone has been jailed for stealing a song: he had been caught singing it on his bath, without the authorization by the artist...

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