someday Prince will sue us all

by anne elizabeth moore | 09/13/2007 | in copyright

The man who legally changed his name to regain control of his copyrighted material from Warner Brothers, and then licensed that same name to Dayton Hudson for a big fragrance launch this summer, wants you to stop thinking you can use his music whenever you want. He's joined forces with Web Sheriff to sue a couple online videosharing forums where people've been using his work without permission.

"Someone has to start somewhere and we know this will make a serious impact - a hell of a lot of artists are going to follow suit," some representative of the anti-piracy org heading the crackdown told the Guardian. "We have to build a 21st century model for the entertainment industry."

I'd be a lot quicker to defend it if I didn't sense he were just keeping his name as pure as possible to sell it to the highest bidder:

http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,,2168265,00.html

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Submitted by Costacide on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 1:29pm.

This is gonna wreck havoc on student films. All those mish-mash masters on Youtube are gonna cry.

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Submitted by r.john on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 1:49pm.

"The spokeswoman said the company will be introducing video fingerprinting technology that will scan videos for copyrighted material as they are uploaded, and will work with rights owners to build a database of such footage."

That database is going to be a powerful mother.
If it really does learn to identify all copyrighted images, sounds, and music then we should all stop what we are doing at start shooting into the air. Maybe one of us will bring down SKYNET.