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| From | Sam Smith <samsmith@colorado.edu> |
| Subject | Re: [DreamPop-LOSINGTODAY] website warning: Jetgroove.com |
| Date | Fri, 08 Oct 2004 12:57:58 -0400 |
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I'm not sure this would apply directly to anybody here, but FYI....
>Hello, all...
>
>This is a warning about a new website that was lauched earlier this week
>called Jetgroove.com
>
>The site is an MP3 sales site, something like iTunes, only concentrating
>mainly in electronic music. They appear to have a catalogue of thousands of
>titles available from labels big & small. They claim that "all our music
>content is properly licensed".
>
>However, according to posts that are flying around on many music mailing
>lists today, none of the artists and labels who are listed on the site have
>ever heard of them before the site launch. And when you try to buy anything
>on the site, nothing seems to actually be available - every title I
>selected went into a "Not Yet Available" section in my shopping cart.
>
>Several labels who have contacted Jetgroove.com have received back a form
>letter which is quoted below. The gist of it is that they launched this
>site with nothing actually available for download, and somehow intended to
>get permission to sell releases after the fact. It's a very strange way of
>doing business, and quite frankly, it reflects badly on all of the artists
>and labels who are listed on their site.
>
>I strongly ancourage EVERYONE to spread the word about this far and wide.
>If you are an artist or run a label, check to see if any of your titles are
>listed, and if so, send them a complaint and request that your titles be
>removed. If you are just a listener, contact them to complain about their
>misleading and shady business practices. Hopefully, we can cause them
>enough grief that they will either change their business model to one that
>is more upfront and honest, or they will just disappear completely.
>
>
>Greg
>
>-----
>
>Dear Sirs and Madams,
>
>My name is Ulukman Mamytov and I am the attorney for jetgroove.com.
>
>I bring you apologies from JetGroove for making you worry about your
>copyrights infringements and your music repertoire being presented on our
>website. I want to assure you that jetgroove.com having started a new
>Online Music Download Service pursues the objective of making your music
>more wellknown and accessible and ONLY BY LEGAL MEANS.
>
>That means we DO NOT SELL any of your music without obtaining a proper
>permission (License) from you or other respective rightholders. You can
>easily check this by trying to purchase any of you music. Everything that
>you choose to put in your cart will have status: "Not Available For
>Purchase Yet". It could only be put "ON HOLD". And we do not change that
>status untill the contract is signed and your permission is granted. In
>this case all of your music will be given "Allowed for Selling" status and
>people who have it in their shopping carts will be able to buy it.
>
>The experince of showing your music on our website without distributing
>aimed to draw your attention to us, with further goal to make contacts with
>you on friendly terms with a perspective of mutually beneficial
>partnership. We're glad to inform you that your music is getting popular
>indeed through our website and we can let you know at any time how many of
>your tracks were put on hold and which ones.
>
>However, we deeply understand your concerns and would like to assure you,
>if you find our relationships impossible, we will IMMEDIATELY delete all of
>your music from our music collection.
>
>Hope you'll find our offer to make your music more popular through us
>rather reasonable and we can start that mutually beneficial partnership.
>
>Very Truly Yours,
>
>Ulukman Mamytov
>Jetgroove LLP
>Legal Department
>
>
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