p2pnet news view Music:- How’s this for richest of the rich irony?

Deep Purple were performing in Rostov-on-Don in Russia a little under a year ago. Then, after the show, they heard from NGO, the Russian Authors’ Society, an organisation which looks suspiciously similar to SOCAN, the Canadian music rip-off organisation.

Because, says the Russian collection agency as cited in Russia Today, Ian Gillan, Ian Paice and Roger Glover, “should have obtained a license” from NGO for the, “public performance of any of their songs”.

It, “represents the rights of foreign performers in Russia – even without these performers giving the NGO permission to represent them,” says the story.

ASCAP, anyone?

(Cheers, Marshall)
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SOCAN – SOCAN threatens p2pnet. Again, August 2, 2007
Russia Today – Deep Purple ordered to pay royalty to themselves, July 3, 2009
ASCAP – ASCAP: ‘You’re all pirates, but don’t fret’, June 24, 2009

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