{"id":8734,"date":"2006-04-29T12:20:57","date_gmt":"2006-04-29T19:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/04\/29\/its-a-sale-no-its-a-license-no-its.html"},"modified":"2006-04-29T12:20:57","modified_gmt":"2006-04-29T19:20:57","slug":"its_a_sale_no_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/29\/its_a_sale_no_i.html","title":{"rendered":"It’s a sale! No, it’s a license! No, it’s …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sony, like any other media giant, seems to want to have it both ways, as long is it adds to the bottom line<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To artists<\/strong>, Sony claims that music it puts up into the iTunes store is, in fact, a sale<\/em>, not a license<\/em>. After all, on sales, Sony only pays artists 4.5 cents per song, whereas on licenses it would be paying them substantially more.<\/p>\n

To consumers<\/strong>, though, Sony claims that iTunes purchases are licenses<\/em>, not sales<\/em>, which is why, it claims, you can’t be allowed to sell it to someone else, give it to someone else, etc., th way you could if it were a sale, like a CD.<\/p>\n

Doubtless this dichotomy will all go away once Sony fixes its contract language and gets a few new laws passed. In the meantime, though, I’m delighted that they’re getting the snot sued out of them by artists like Cheap Trick and the Allman Brothers.<\/p>\n

(via BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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