[Dynagroove] So HipHop DJ Drama gets arrested for making mixtapes...

[Gretchen Hileman]

Thank you for saying all this.  It is definitely wrong to sell mixtapes/cds.
It's not even about licensing although yes you definitely must have a license
to do so.  There are also copyright laws.  Sure the mix might be yours, but
those tracks used to make up the mix are someone elses.  It's the same as if
you took a few of your brother's cd's without telling him and then sold them
to a used cd store for a couple of bucks and keeping the money and not telling
him about it.  It's just dishonesty.  However, if the mix came with a track
listing then proper credit is being paid to the artists you used to make your
mix....but unless your mix can be sold at Tower Records or any record store
for all that matters, you should never ask for money for one of your mixes.
They are just a tool for networking.  Besides, the more respectful and
selfless and you are, the better chance you will get heard.  

My biggest
complaint...and it's on the subject but a little off at the same time...are
the musicians (no matter what music genre) who get bent out of shape when
someone burns a copy of their music and gives it to a friend they want to
share it with.  I didn't hear anyone complaining back during the cassette tape
days.  We copied away.  So what's the difference now?  Capiche?  The artists
should be thrilled that people are spreading their music around...especially
all of these independent artists out there.  

and yes...thank you for your
statement about the dj's who won't give you the name of the tracks on their
mixes when asked.  That's so lame!  First of all, they most likely aren't the
dj's tracks therefore withholding that information to someone who needs to
know is disrespectful to the producer who put a lot of time and feeling into
his/her music.  I ask all the time and never get an answer.  I don't even DJ
so I'm not a threat...but I love vinyl and certain tracks I must have for my
collection. Just so you know, I only have a few records because no one will
tell me the info behind the song rocking off my socks at that moment.  Since
I'm not a dj, I don't find that thrill sorting through bins and bins of
records to find sick tracks.  I want to buy the tracks that made me dance that
night or make my ass wiggle in my car or those tracks that make me look over
to my friend and go...dooood...that's siiiiick!  By the way you secretive
DJ's...you purchased those records in a
 store/online whatever....they aren't secrets.  With enough dedication, I'd be
able to find that record, too so why not give credit where credit is do and
blow up the name of the producer who made that sick track.  They deserve it.
Without the producers, you wouldn't have anything to mix.  

So yes...I
agree...

Have a great day peeps! 
much love
gretchen

----- Original Message
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From: "aaron at tohzt.com" <aaron at tohzt.com>
To: Emiliano Garcia
<emi at vinyltribe.com>; dynagroove at dynagroove.com
Sent: Thursday, January 18,
2007 10:07:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Dynagroove] So HipHop DJ Drama gets arrested
for making mixtapes...


I think the thing is this case is that the mixtapes
were being sold, no?

That is a different story than mixtapes being used for
promotion.  It is
wrong to sell your mixtapes/cds;  there is no buts about it.
It's selling
something that isnt yours to sell.  It's like selling entrance to
your
house to watch The Bad Girls Club on tv.  You must get a license!

Even
then, most people who get mixes don't go out and purchase the music
that is on
them.  Furthermore, most people don't even know who made the
tracks unless
they are brave enough to ask the DJ.  And then, you have the
DJs that don't
want to share their playlists.  That is whack in itself.

keep rockin and
sharin' those playlists,

_A

in response to: Emiliano
Garcia<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/18/arts/music/18dram.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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>
Do you guys think the House Scene will ever get to the point where the
> RIAA
goes and arrests DJs who post DJ sets online or distribute promo
> CD's? What
ever happened to the days of the mix tape/cd? Doesn't the
> music industry get
it that if the music is heard on a mix tape it has a
> higher chance of being
heard and purchased by other people?
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