Music downloads, how to do abroad?

Absrtact: Digital copyright has long been a headache for many copyright companies involved in the Internet, and they all want to be able to protect their rights and interests through a number of relevant measures in some industries. In music copyright, a large number of

Digital copyright has long been a headache for many copyright companies involved in the Internet, and they all want to be able to protect their rights and interests through a number of relevant measures. In music copyright, a large number of pirated free music greatly reduced the rights and interests of music producers, in order to be able to further expand the music producers and their own profits, to provide music production side of the music creative passion, many music internet companies have started to accompany the music copyright owners shouting music charges slogans. But a few times it was the story of the Wolf.

June 5, 2013, is a stirring the music circle, the Internet day. Shrimp Music Network announced that from this day onwards, including shrimp, Baidu music, QQ music, Cool dog, DOM, coolness and other music websites, will try to download the music fee.

It turned out to be a "wolf" story. After "Thunder", the music website still offers free music downloading service. Even the high profile of the shrimp network, also admits that the increase in the service function, the original free service can continue to use, and all online audition services are free category.

Rumors of music downloading fees have been ringing in recent years. "Downloading music fees on the Internet" is actually a rumor. In November 2012, media reported that, from the beginning of 2013, several major music companies will unite the domestic music service website to promote a wide range of music download fees, paid users will be able to download to comparable CD quality of high-quality music. This March, the musician Gao also revealed in a public event, "the beginning of July 1, the music copyright will officially go to the legitimate, online music download began to charge." "The number of calls and many, just" wolf "shout more, unavoidably give people leave" wool "impression.

Talking about the power to block full music downloads, many people will move out of their way: consumers don't want to pay.

In fact, many years ago, we often spent hundreds of dollars to buy tapes and CDs, we have no complaints. The network downloads the music not to popularize, nobody has tasted the free downloading music the sweetness. And when the Internet is running high, many free music sites have sprung up. As a result, consumers are slowly accustomed to free. Who is willing to pay for the music after eating a free lunch?

It seems to be true that consumers are accustomed to free lunches and do not have the habit of paying for services at all. But in fact, there is a hidden fact is ignored: when the music web site to rack up a variety of music services, and netizens are happy to become members, registration, recharge, is originally in the bill for music.

Therefore, between the music website, the music website and the music company's interest entanglements, for the commercial interest and the comprehensive charge both yearning and the fear, is the real spoiled Internet user's behind the hand. Just like some netizens said: "If all music websites are really charging for downloading overnight, people don't listen to music anymore?"

In addition, the competition of music websites is also a checkpoint on the way to carry out music downloading fees.

From one side to dominate and the warlords, the result, any music website, if you try to complete the music fee download, may lose over the years gathered netizens loyalty, and traffic is its survival basis.

"Free in the way, who charges who died," in this case, almost no one dared to move. Cool Dog Music vice President Woothers said very directly: "As long as Tencent and Baidu any one did not take action, the other music site charges means the loss of users, everyone will not rush in front of the risk." ”

Zoodongxu, director of the DOM Music Strategy department, also said that the operating model of fee downloading could be promoted and be in sync with each website. A few web sites to implement the results of charges, can only be the loss of users, operating difficulties.

"As a music website for internet companies, you don't really want to help the music industry. To promote music download fees, music sites are competing with each other, industrial upgrading needs, they are just trying to cut the cake, but this move at this stage is also difficult. Liu Sizi, general manager of Arts company, said.

Of course, the copyright issue is an insurmountable hurdle.

In fact, from the copyright law amended in 2001 to the enactment of the "Information Network Dissemination Rights Protection Ordinance" enacted in 2006, and then to the "Tort liability Law" issued in 2009, China's Network copyright protection of music has already built a rule of law shield. Since the laws are in the laws, why is it still so disorderly? There are comments that the subject matter of the complex is an important reason. Music products genuine and pirated, and music web site to obtain and copy music products, there are many channels, copyright protection lacks effective law enforcement and management.

So, is "full charge" really out of reach?

Liu Sizi sketched a "Full charge" roadmap: Fish, with a full charge to raise the threshold and destroy those small and medium music sites. And this, exactly is the video website once walked the road. "The competition within the digital music industry will be the driving force for the evolution of business models such as genuine and fee downloads." ”

"The music industry is the person who makes breakfast, the internet business is the person who opens the store and the breakfast, if these two kinds of people do not go on, those who eat free breakfast will not eat the", engaged in the more than 30 years of music work Songko This interpretation of copyright, Web sites, users of the relationship between the three, and let these three have a fair and reasonable transaction, Can really call the music industry breakthrough, at that time may usher in "full pay" the real start.

Nowadays, regardless of copyright protection, or the distribution ratio has not formed a mature system and norms, the so-called "full charge" its gimmick means much more than its practical significance. Moreover, the music industry has to solve a lot of problems, far from an Internet music download whether the fee can be solved.

Music downloads, how to do abroad?

Music web site can not provide free download according to the industry, in Europe, America, Japan, Korea, almost all of the audition site can not provide free download, netizens may try to listen online, but to download must spend money, if the site provides free download, is illegal. Foreign music sites also provide a variety of monthly download services.

Illegal downloads will be severely punished in this regard, a domestic media report in 2009 could prove: "A graduate student of Boston University has been fined $675,000 by a federal jury for illegally downloading 30 copyrighted songs." ”

The student, named Chow Tennans, admits that he illegally downloaded and forwarded 30 songs, belonging to four different bands. The federal jury found him "intentionally illegally downloading" and violating intellectual property rights, so he fined 22,500 dollars for each song, totaling 675,000 dollars.

In July, a jury in the United States Minneapolis a hefty 1.92 million dollars for a woman who illegally downloaded and spread songs online.

How are music benefits distributed?

Europe and the United States, and even Japan, South Korea, have established a sound system. It is understood that in Japan, Korea and other countries, music copyright party in the proportion of the split can even reach 90%, in Europe and the United States, the recording industry, the proportion of the total is more than 70%. In the United States, for example, Apple itunes is almost the largest, as of this February, the total number of users downloaded from itunes Breakthrough 25 billion, if the itunes song on the general price of 0.99 dollars, the music company to take 0.70 of dollars, Apple left $0.29. In this way, itunes has now made more than 10 billion dollars for the music company.