we listen to "copyrighted" music on our stream, but we're careful to listen to music that is freely available to anybody, i.e. dsound, youtube, soundcloud, spotify... and we're careful to give credit to ANY artist featured in our stream. when quite honestly, we're just playing fair. music artists especially, see half of fuckall from production companies from record sales. you want to support the artist? go to a show, and buy a t-shirt. most tour deals incorporate 100% of merch sales to the band, where they get like a nickel from every CD sold.
going by the precedent h3h3's recent fair use lawsuit win, use of other people's content is fine if it's not the main feature of the video. pretty sure that -technically- you aren't even allowed to listen to a CD you just bought with someone else in your car... lol, but when does that happen in real life? we are still watching the big production companies try to adapt their outdated models to internet distribution. media is meant to be experienced... and lawmakers act as gatekeepers to creator's messages. i 100% don't agree with that mentality. <3
We are talking about different things. Getting payment from DLive is different from normal approach. Creators are able to get benefit from their work directly. If someone pretends himself to the creator of certain video and get the payment which should be paid for the real creator, that is unfair for the real creator.
ah. 100% agree. lol. i kind of went on a rant there. sorry. :)
Np, dude.