<story><title>Facebook prohibits music or music listening experience on Live</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/legal/music_guidelines</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway189262</author><text>Copyright law needs major reform. Technology has hit the point where you have to make a concerted effort to avoid infringing by accident. Every time a security camera picks up music, it&amp;#x27;s copyright infringement. When your camera records virtually anything man-made, copyright infringement. Probably 90% of photos are infringing copyright.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s totally nuts now that recording devices are everywhere.&lt;p&gt;Copyright on images and audio are just unrealistic. Abolish them, the artists make most of their money in other ways anyway</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheOtherHobbes</author><text>I suspect none of your examples are factually correct, or even particularly relevant. I&amp;#x27;m not aware of any significant trend of suing security camera owners for copyright infractions, for example.&lt;p&gt;Copyright on images and audio is actually how artists make most of their money.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Some&lt;/i&gt; musicians can play live, but what options do professional photographers have if they want to create work of lasting value?&lt;p&gt;Perhaps artists should move towards the software developer model and produce products that are never actually finished and never really work correctly, so they can spend their professional lives never quite fixing the problems they&amp;#x27;ve created.</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook prohibits music or music listening experience on Live</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/legal/music_guidelines</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway189262</author><text>Copyright law needs major reform. Technology has hit the point where you have to make a concerted effort to avoid infringing by accident. Every time a security camera picks up music, it&amp;#x27;s copyright infringement. When your camera records virtually anything man-made, copyright infringement. Probably 90% of photos are infringing copyright.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s totally nuts now that recording devices are everywhere.&lt;p&gt;Copyright on images and audio are just unrealistic. Abolish them, the artists make most of their money in other ways anyway</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kjakm</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt; Abolish them, the artists make most of their money in other ways anyway&lt;p&gt;And look how great that&amp;#x27;s working out for them now that an entire year, potentially more of touring has been cancelled. Why don&amp;#x27;t software companies start giving away their product and instead make their money through t-shirt sales and speaking tours? Music has already been made exponentially less expensive for the consumer (at a massive cost to artists). It seems cruel to take even more away so that someone can use music in their vlog or travel video for free.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s totally nuts now that recording devices are everywhere.&lt;p&gt;Maybe instead we should reconsider why we have recording devices everywhere. Music and musicians getting paid is beneficial to society, people recording who&amp;#x27;s ringing their doorbell and who&amp;#x27;s walking past their home is detrimental.</text></comment>