All Discussions Tagged 'licence' - Overtone Music Network2024-03-19T04:15:17Zhttps://www.overtone.cc/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=licence&feed=yes&xn_auth=noLicence by GEMAtag:www.overtone.cc,2010-04-21:884327:Topic:914292010-04-21T10:25:27.694ZJens Müggehttps://www.overtone.cc/profile/jensmuegge
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<tbody><tr><td align="justify">Concerning to my invite to various groups on Overtone Music Network I have to post now this thread just to explain what's happened behind the scene. First I thank all of you who responsed to my group inviation and more than for your feeback posted as comments to these groups. Now what's happened behind the scene. <br></br><br></br><br></br>I am confused since I organized a concert with Stuart Hinds here here in Berlin in March and the GEMA charged me a fee…</td>
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<tbody><tr><td align="justify">Concerning to my invite to various groups on Overtone Music Network I have to post now this thread just to explain what's happened behind the scene. First I thank all of you who responsed to my group inviation and more than for your feeback posted as comments to these groups. Now what's happened behind the scene. <br/><br/><br/>I am confused since I organized a concert with Stuart Hinds here here in Berlin in March and the GEMA charged me a fee that Stuart - member of ASCAP - performed his own music. What the GEMA is doing is not quite clear for me. But to know more about this organisation and their juridical force I found out that I have to accept one point: they can oblige me to purchase a licence that I have the right to host compostions which underlies the protection of the GEMA. Since they claimed to protect also compositions by Stuart Hinds - member of ASCAP - and I had to pay a fee for the concert which I organized official for him - I am quite confused about the juridical situation. And excuse me: I have not the monetary power to consult an advocate for this issue. As I started this network in July 2007 I did that in a simple mind and I had to learn many, many new things which are not related with my way of lifestyle. Now I have to ask myself and you too if we can collect the amount of yearly 150 € for this GEMA. Here are the <a href="http://www.gema.de/fileadmin/inhaltsdateien/musiknutzer/tarife/tarife_ad/tarif_vr_w_i.pdf" target="_blank">prices and conditions for websites</a> - written in German only. So the extract: if you can categorize OMN as private website they price for licence is cheaper than for a non-private. I have to count with 37 € or up to 150 € or maybe 360 €. I know that some members of this network were very generous and they donated 2008, 2009 and 2010 for the maintanence of OMN. Thanks a lot to all of you. <br/><br/><br/><br/>Difficult to say if you can call Overtone Music Network a private website. We have more than 120.000 clicks in one year - but I don't earn money with this site. OMN is mentioned on various article on Wikipedia. Today I can find more than <a href="http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=AsURoMRfNxGQDdlSItvbfA6bvZx4?vc=&fp_ip=de&p=overtone+network&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-701">2,670,000</a> entries with Overtone Network at yahoo.com - since two years I spread the word about this network and overtones in the world wide web to optimze the search engines results for this site. This site has page rank 4 and there are some other points that members of this network embed their member badge with joy to their websites or MySpace profiles. <br/><br/><p style="text-align: left;"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1798937068?profile=original" alt=""/></p>
<br/><br/>But back to my point: paying 150 or up to 360 € will be too hard for me and if I have to pay this price for my hobby and have to switch to another cheaper one. I am not able and willing to pay for licence to GEMA. I am willing to <a href="http://www.overtone.cc/forum/topics/ning-social-network-site-is">pay each month 25 € to the provider of this network</a> since more than 2 years - because I know they are doing always a good job since 3 years and <a href="http://www.overtone.cc/forum/topics/ning-social-network-site-is?commentId=884327%3AComment%3A91344" target="_blank">there is no such thing as free lunch</a>. But I am not willing to my saved money to the GEMA. If they will charge me I have to switch off this network until I collected the money to pay the not only the rent - just for the service charges too. <a href="http://www.overtone.cc/page/gema-licence">I have set up an own special paypal button</a> <a href="http://www.overtone.cc/page/gema-licence">for this purpose. The money</a> <a href="http://www.overtone.cc/page/gema-licence">for this purpose will be used</a> <a href="http://www.overtone.cc/page/gema-licence">to purchase a GEMA licence for this site only.</a> <br/></td>
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