[Rumori] Music on Wal-Mart.com

[Anthony Hall]

It is all Seeland stuff. I notice they're also selling many Negativland, 
and the "Deconstructing Beck" comp (was that legit?), even, most 
humorously, "Music For Selling" by the ECC.

Is it possible to sue Wal-Mart for selling copyright infringing items, 
hehe? More to the point, who is franchising to Wal-mart? The "Listen" links 
on the Wal-mart site point to http://www.liquiddigitalmedia.com , who now 
skin and sell download stores. (apparently containing "music from all of 
the major labels and *dozens* of independents". wow!).

Note that Liquid themselves no longer offer their own downloads to sell. 
www.liquid.com redirects to the above link and recommends that the user 
goes to the Wal-mart site to buy downloads!!! I smell a fishy rat with 
eyeball wool here.

Must be quite infuriating for the artists to find out that their digital 
rights can be franchised or sold on to whoever in this way - I'm guessing 
the implications of that clause didn't become apparent while they were 
poring over the small print.

A

At 16:27 09/03/2006 +1100, SM King wrote:
>Thanks....I'll see how far I get having it removed from wal-mart's site 
>and keep you posted.
>
>Yes, it was Seeland. I thought it may be a Mordam thing, but they haven't 
>had any stock for years as far as I know. I can't remember signing off on 
>any digital rights - the album came out before downloading was common.
>
>The whole thing is quite ironic I know, given the nature of our 
>output...if we're not going to ask permission, why should anyone else?
>
>I just wish it wasn't union bustin' bully-boy Wal-Mart !!!!
>
>OUCH!
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:das at ubuibi.org>das
>To: <mailto:rumori at detritus.net>Detritus discussion list. ; 
><mailto:omnimedia at mac.com>Tom Koch Koch
>Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 1:21 PM
>Subject: Re: [Rumori] Music on Wal-Mart.com
>
>we've come across this a lot.
>and if the company does get back to you regarding their infringment, its 
>usually with a list of things YOU must do (or get a lawyer)
>before they will comply
>
>i even heard back from a rhapsody rep that if we don't register with 
>bmi'ascap that they could do anything that they want with our music.
>he never wrote back when i asked if the action of loading my disc into a 
>cd tray and uploading it to their server meant premeditation. hmmmmmm
>
>das
><mailto:das at ubuibi.org>das at ubuibi.org
>bigCityOrchestre web: <http://ubuibi.org>http://ubuibi.org
>no other radio network: 
><http://nootherradio.blogspot.com>http://nootherradio.blogspot.com
>
>
>
>On Mar 8, 2006, at 5:54 PM, Susan M. King wrote:
>
>I just blogged this on our temporary residence blog at 
>http://blog.myspace.com/antediluvianrockinghorse
>(We're squatting at News Corp.'s MySpace, while we rebuild our site), and 
>thought someone on this list might have some insight....
>
>
>Wal-Mart.com is selling our music. How does this happen?
>
><http://musicdownloads.walmart.com/catalog/servlet/ArtistServlet?id=39423>http://musicdownloads.walmart.com/catalog/servlet/ArtistServlet?id=39423
>
>If they actually SOLD any, and I wouldn't expect we'd be a huge revenue 
>spinner for them, where does this money go? I never signed up for THIS. I 
>don't care if our stuff is given away FREE -downloaded-uploaded-toploaded, 
>but I'm freaking disgusted that Wal-Mart is potentially making ANY money 
>off our work. Has anyone had experience with this?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>----------
>_______________________________________________
>Rumori - the Detritus Discussion List
>http://lists.detritus.net/listinfo.cgi/rumori-detritus.net
>
>_______________________________________________
>Rumori - the Detritus Discussion List
>http://lists.detritus.net/listinfo.cgi/rumori-detritus.net
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: /pipermail/rumori-detritus.net/attachments/20060309/4e0f4701/attachment-0001.htm