{"id":2999,"date":"2012-06-02T07:31:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T11:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=2999"},"modified":"2012-06-02T07:35:35","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T11:35:35","slug":"stupidity-run-amuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2012\/06\/stupidity-run-amuck\/","title":{"rendered":"stupidity run amuck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.speakoutoncopyright.ca\/g\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/speakoutoncopyright-150x60.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"speakoutoncopyright\" width=\"150\" height=\"60\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/speakoutoncopyright-150x60.png 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/speakoutoncopyright.png 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCopyright board to charge for music at weddings, parades<br \/>\nThe Canadian Press<br \/>\nPosted: Jun 1, 2012 9:33 AM ET<\/p>\n<p>From<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/arts\/story\/2012\/06\/01\/music-tariff-recorded-copyright-board.html<\/p>\n<p>>Money can&#8217;t buy love \u2014 but if you want some great tunes playing at your >wedding, it&#8217;s going to cost you.<\/p>\n<p>>The Copyright Board of Canada has certified new tariffs that apply to >recorded music used at live events including conventions, karaoke bars, ice >shows, fairs and, yes, weddings. The fees will be collected by a >not-for->profit called Re:Sound.<br \/>\n>The new tariffs apply to recorded music used at live events, including >conventions, karaoke bars, weddings and parades with floats playing >music.The new tariffs apply to recorded music used at live events, including >conventions, karaoke bars, weddings and parades with floats playing music. >(Damian Dovarganes\/Associated Press)<\/p>\n<p>>While the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada >(otherwise known as SOCAN) already collects money from many of these events >for the songwriters, Re:Sound will represent the record labels and >performers who contributed to the music.<\/p>\n<p>Two words.. Screw you.  This is so absolutely ridiculous and insanely stupid and in my humble opinion no better than a mafia shakedown.<\/p>\n<p>Who is on this Copyright Board?  Fire their asses.<br \/>\nThe basic rationale.. music is bought once.  Everyone gets paid.  This simply forces you to pay and pay again.<br \/>\nJust say no!<\/p>\n<p>One of the very few lawyers that I actually have respect for has been fighting for openness and fairness to consumer rights&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgeist.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.michaelgeist.ca\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I suspect there will be some comments on this shortly.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Copyright board to charge for music at weddings, parades The Canadian Press Posted: Jun 1, 2012 9:33 AM ET From http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/arts\/story\/2012\/06\/01\/music-tariff-recorded-copyright-board.html >Money can&#8217;t buy love \u2014 but if you want some great tunes playing at your >wedding, it&#8217;s going to cost you. >The Copyright Board of Canada has certified new tariffs that apply to >recorded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}