The Buma-Stemra is an organization that protects the right of artists and their music… at least they say so. Normally they want people to pay a little when using the music of the artists who are connected to them. Basically that is not a wrong idea…..
But…
Now they have come with something that is utterly stupid. They want people pay for it when they embed a YouTube-movie that contains protected material of their member. Why is this dumb? Simple, normally it the provider of the content that gets charged (YouTube in this case) and it is to this provider to remove the material from their servers when they don’t want this.
Buma-Stemra wants to charge for the linking to the material. If this goes through, then we better close down the Internet, because “linking to” is one of the basic things that the Internet gives its right to exist.
So if a child embeds a YouTube-movie of their favorite artist on their weblog, their parents may be face with a bill of close to € 300 per year. This is completely out of range.
Buma-Stemra wants to use webcrawlers to find this content on website and alike. I hope that major blog communities (as Word Press and Blogger) adept their software to deny this kind of webcrawlers access to the content of a site (it can be done, many forums do this with the crawler of Google and alike).
Just another company that tries to get control over the Internet and make money from it….
Update:
As I already thought that there be soon a plugin for Word Press to stop this webcrawler from the Buma-Stemra and I was right. It is already available. Right now simple and very straight forward, but as the author already announced it will be developed a lot further then this.
I have this plugin already installed. Even when I have no music-movies from YouTube on my weblog. Such organizations as the Buma-Stemra are no longer welcome on my weblog.
The plugin is available from Coen Jacobs, Independent Web Developer-blog
You put the finger were it hurts.
Embedding is a graphical form of hyperlinking.
That is 1 beehyve that only few dare to enter.
1 little remark:
you say : They want people pay for it when they embed a YouTube-movie that contains protected material of their member.
Buma wants everyone who embeds anything containing music to pay. Even if the person owns this music. This person must then send a declaration to BS. And BS can the consider to give the owner a fee minus the cost of BM. And then only if the request is considered large enough to think about, it will be granted.
Hmmm… my source mentioned only material that was own by the artists who are member of their organization.
But if this what you say is true, then it is even more ridicules!!
Installed it 2