Music Industry Piracy Investigations has released a guide entitled “Internet Café Guide – Are You and Your Customers Doing the Right Thing?”, which outlines how to get music legally online and the possible consequences for internet cafés that allow copyright theft to take place on their premises. The move comes soon after a recent Australian Federal Police raid on an internet café in the Sydney CBD which allegedly offered its customers unlimited access to terabytes of pirated music and movies for an hourly fee. The MIPI stated that thanks to the Australian Federal Police’s raid of the internet café late last year, many internet cafes have removed illegal music files from their servers. It appears that the guide has been released to further help direct their decisions when it comes to allowing file transfers.
"In addition to reinforcing copyright laws through effective police action, it is crucial that internet café owners have a clear understanding of how to respect music copyright through educational initiatives. Put simply, it is not acceptable to save illegal copies of music onto café servers or to allow customers access to that pirated material. It is also not acceptable to allow café customers to download illegal copies of music files from the internet through café computers. As the MIPI Internet Café Guide points out, café owners can be held criminally or civilly liable for such illegal conduct. MIPI looks forward to working with internet café owners through the provision of the MIPI Internet Café Guide to ensure that they understand music copyright law and that the law is applied fairly to them,” said Sabiene Heindl, General Manager of MIPI.
View: Internet Café Guide
That cafe deserved to be busted for hosting pirated material. Simply allowing people free use of the internet -- which they may or may not use to download pirated material on their own -- is hardly illegal or "bust" worthy.
Name it something like "quarterly_earnings_taxes_personnel_backup.tar" so as not to draw attention.
"This means that copying the music from a CD including onto an iPod, without the permission of all relevant copyright owners, is an infringement of copyright except in very limited circumstances"
**** off mipi, blatenly an RIAA / MPAA / MediaDeFriender bull**** site
What another load of crap: http://www.mipi.com.au/documents/MusicforD...eRightThing.pdf
"If you want to copy your legitimate CDs into a more convenient format or onto your computer for playing at a gig, you must get:
1. Permission or a licence from the record company that controls the copyright in the sound recordings (contact the Licensing Department of the relevant record company); and
2. A licence from AMCOS for the reproduction of the music. Generally, AMCOS will offer a “blanket” licence which allows you to be covered for all reproduction of musical and literary works for certain purposes."
Errr no, if I want to convert my vinyl to MP3 and DJ it I will bloody well do so without your sodding licenses, get stuffed
oh yeah and in australia we are ALLOWED to make backup copies of copyrighted material if we own the original...well last time i checked anyway..
oh yeah and in australia we are ALLOWED to make backup copies of copyrighted material if we own the original...well last time i checked anyway..
although all statements on the site disagree with you
http://www.ifpi.com/dfc/downloads/dfc.html
Gotta love how the IFPI also break the law, in that video they have a load of files that they have downloaded from ed2k and a load of files they have ripped off cds, yet with the file names of them, they do not look like they originated from cds, hypocrites
http://www.copyright.org.au/pdf/acc/infosheets_pdf/G070.pdf
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