Re: Responding to your CDDB Inquiries (fwd)
Iain (cddb nospam at tigermilk.outside.net)
Tue, 9 Mar 1999 17:01:31 -0500 (EST)
> It would be *really* nice to know what the music publishing industry's
> take on this is. Does keeping track of disc title/artist/tracks fall under
> "fair use"? My worst nightmare is that the record industry can enforce
> "ownership" of this information and decides to get into bed with Escient
> to exploit it (leaving the rest of us with no alternative).
There was a post on /. from someone working at Subpop who apparently has
written to Escient asking them to remove all Subpop's artists from the
cddb, and he has also written to other record companies urging them to do
the same.
i.