[mb-users] Releases missing on Amazon?

[Rod Begbie]

On 10/19/06, Robert Kaye <rob at eorbit.net> wrote:
> This is unfortunately a MAJOR project -- not so much from a technical
> perspective but a legal one. The cover art has a separate copyright
> from the music (and the lyrics too) where we would *somehow* have to
> license these legally.

My T0p-S3kr1T corporate-music-database spies tell me that record
companies generally don't give a tinker's fart about the copyrights on
cover-art.  They are quite happy to "license" it freely.  Hence Amazon
makes it dead simple to get cover art URLs from their web services,
but don't supply, say, links to the 30-second music samples.  (Indeed,
Amazon has no qualms with users uploading cover-art for albums when
AMG doesn't have scans).

Just a thought.

Rod.

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