Prince Files Law-Suit Against EBay and You Tube for Piracy Infringement

Copyright Infringement Force Many Artist to Fight for Their Due Rights

By alfonso coley, published Oct 01, 2007
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The eclectic super star Prince is taking on a personal endeavor to stop all unauthorized downloads and anything that associates with his person. Prince will sue on the just measures that any of his music and videos are a part of copyright infringement. The artist sole intention is made clear, to take back control of his rights as an artist. You Tube claims that it cannot control which users are downloading what material-also stating-that it has no control over what the users are posting from their site.

There is a an open gap that precedes what many artist have been fighting for, knowing well that You Tube has the capability to filter out all pornography and also can weed out pedophile material. Whichever person that has the knowledge to download music is not ignorant of the fact of unrestricted use; this has been going on since the inception and explosion of web browsing.

In his innate knowledge of the music industry-Prince is well aware that 50 to 75% of unauthorized music and video downloads are the bread and butter of the search engines that dictate the success of their businesses.

There has been no present response from You Tube on or after the abundant e-mails that have bombarded its press room.

Prince will also make an attempt to end all access to his work from the major on-line auctioneer Pirate Bay and eBay. There have been many other artist and Hollywood insiders note that various types of piracy have been going on for some time.

There have been an increasing and overwhelming concern in the music industry about the growing number of people whom access the web for music file sharing, video web site and mobile phone downloads. Trying to enforce copyright infringement due to the illegal use of downloading has become a daunting task to enforce in this new age of technology.

There is an ultimate downfall in the Government-state by state attempt to enforce against music and video piracy. Many of the new pop culture musicians actually encourage people to illegally download a song, this may add to the artist gaining more exposure and sales for their album.

Prince Files Law-Suit Against EBay and You Tube for Piracy Infringement
Prince Files Law-Suit Against EBay and You Tube for Piracy Infringement

Multi-colored collage of the Artist Prince

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Takeaways
  • Prince files lawsuit against web-sites claiming unauthorized use of his images and music.
  • Prince actually fights for all industry artist.
  • Search Engines have attributed to endless music streaming.
Did You Know?
2000 of Prince Videos have been removed from You Tube data base.
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This issue is paradoxical. Fighting music piracy is important, but it is like trying to protect your sand castle from the tide. Get one music sharing network to comply, two more spring up to continue the piracy. Fighting to win royalties is righteous, but it may win the artist some negative publicity. This is one time I agree with the artist formerly known as "the artist formerly known as 'Prince'".

Posted on 12/12/2007 at 9:12:40 PM

 
Go Prince! And yes on point about Youtube and all of the other places which rely on user-generated material to go, who use that poor excuse (they can't control what material is uploaded onto their site)-knowing full-well what they're allowing. Boo to all of the sites that use that excuse. It's catching up with them now-years later-but finally catching up with them.

Posted on 11/21/2007 at 7:11:00 PM

 
And nobody does publicity work for free.

Posted on 10/24/2007 at 9:10:00 PM

 
I think many people may be missing the point of the article, I am a fan of many talented artist-it is their right as an artist to retain rights to their respective work. If you are a writer freelancing yourself throughout the superfluous intranet, you know the importance of retaining the rights to your original work. Prince has done nothing other-than to protect his work from negligent unsatiated use, major record labels have the same policy in effect-Prince is not crazy or disillusioned, the artist lives in a stark cold reality where artist standing rights have been violated by business moguls for the last two decades.

Posted on 10/24/2007 at 9:10:00 PM

 
He's nuts. I can understand blocking pirated stuff, but just anything from eBay? Boo, Prince.

Posted on 10/22/2007 at 7:10:00 AM

 
I read about this earlier too. It is crazy - he should be thrilled that people are doing publicity work for him for free. :)

Posted on 10/02/2007 at 6:10:00 AM

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