- Offizieller Beitrag
MP3-Shops zum legalen Download gegen Bares erfreuen sich ja immer größerer Beliebtheit. So nach und nach ziehen sämtliche Labels mit ihrer eigenen Plattform nach (u.a. AnjunaDigital, VRadiostation.com, etc.) oder lassen sich über einen größeren Shop vertreiben - wie zum Beispiel AudioJelly (Thread gibt's HIER). Letzterer hat gestern eine Warn-Mail herausgeschickt, in welcher vor JetGroove.com gewarnt wird, die da wohl mit scheinbar geklautem Material Kasse machen wollen:
AN OPEN EMAIL FROM AUDIOJELLY.COM TO EVERYONE IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY.
Hello everyone,
If you have not yet heard about Jetgroove.com through emails that have been forwarded across the globe, we would like to add our voice to the issue.
As three artists, we started the Audiojelly Music Download Store for many reasons, but the primary factor was due to online piracy killing our livelihood. As artists, we are extremely sensitive towards the issue of illegal music activity on the internet. We founded a legal music download store that is conducted in the correct, appropriate, legal manner. That means contracts are signed with labels to sell their music, and we pride ourselves on giving a fair royalty rate to artists & labels and (through an MCPS license) to songwriters & publishers.
It disappoints us greatly that a company named Jetgroove.com have presented themselves as a legal download store. We have been inundated with emails from our own label partners about this service. As well as having partnerships with music labels around the world to sell mp3's (legally!), we also have our own catalogue that is exclusively administered by us. Together with many of our label partners, we have discovered JetGroove.com advertising our music for sale, without them negotiating a contract with us - or even contacting us. They have our music (and the music of several of our label partners) on their site that can be listened to, which they have obtained illegally.
While we all still have an ongoing battle with illegal networks, it is staggering to see a download service presenting themselves as a legal download store operating in this illegal, underhand way.
Any labels with their catalogues displayed on this site will be without doubt already taking legal action against Jetgroove.com. Audiojelly certainly will be.
We have decided to write this open email because we are a download store that is fair to labels and consumers. Together with several other download stores that have recently launched we are attempting to do something about the problem of music piracy on the internet. Jetgroove.com create a serious problem for the perception of legal download stores. The consumer who chooses to buy music online legally from jetgroove.com is not only doing so under false pretences, but it is possibly the case that they are spending money on inferior quality recordings. Let's not forget about the artists and songwriters being paid for the sale of their music. If Jetgroove have made catalogues available for sale without even contacting the labels (let alone drawing up contracts) do any of us believe that royalties from Jetgroove.com will make their way to the labels, artists, songwriters and publishers?
Keep music legal.
Best wishes,
Stephen Jones
Tony Rapacioli
Ricky Simmonds
audiojelly.com
Quelle: AudioJelly Newsletter
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