Welcome EMI
Welcome EMI. Nice Meeting You.
I want to officially welcome Elio Leoni-Sceti, Ronn Werre and Sylvia Coleman of EMI to my little site. I was in London a couple of days ago with a friend and we just happened to bump into the three of them and I was introduced. They told me that they were avid readers so I wanted to give them the royal treatment. In all fairness, they were very nice and had a good sense of humor about my stupidity and abuse of EMI. So I guess that I have to reciprocate and be nice. By the way Sylvia is extremely smart and Ronn and Elio showed that they could roll. Oh, and Ronn. We should talk about that friend of mine that I mentioned. :-)
So guys, can I still beat up on Terra Firma?
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Cummon Wayne give us some more info why you where at the EMI offices and what you where negotiating with that friend (Ted Cohen?) .
Its well known that you and Ted have been promoting collective licencing for the past couple of years and that you are now working with GGF on the new Pirate Bay .
With the labels bleeding cash and their failing old business models still failing it only makes sense for a new business model like the EEF’s Voluntary Collective Licencing to take hold especialy when it comes to digital music and mass copyright lawsuits that have pretty much failed.
http://www.eff.org/wp/better-way-forward-voluntary-collective-licensing-music-file-sharing
Hi Matt
Nope. Not Ted. He’s not been at EMI for a few years now. I was just in London having lunch in a spot near Wrights Lane with another friend who happened to know the EMI people and we were introduced. They were very pleasant. You’re right about the Pirate Bay and the subject did come up. So we decided to circle back at a later date and discuss it. Nothing to get wet over.
And unfortunately I think that we’re still a long way from collective licensing, if ever.
Cheers
Don’t tell me they want the new Pirate bay will be a Peer Impact type site with Snocap as the filter …Starting to sound like it to me .
No, Matt. Nowhere near Peer Impact. And Snocap, as I painfully learned, was horse shit.