Originally Posted by Ben F Burton lll
Coupla weeks ago, I got a note from a guy who said the song I posted in "Spoken Word" was touching as it described where he was a while back (It's about a homeless guy). He asked if he could do a back-up music track. I said I'd be honored.

He then sent me another note cursing and complaining about spam. When I wrote I had no idea what he was talking about, he sent this today. Hope someone can answer it clearly (I have no idea how it works!), so I can copy and paste it as a response.

Here is his note from today....

SORRY BEN I EMAILED YOU ABOUT HELPING YOU BRING OUT YOUR SPOKEN WORD...I THINK THIS PLACE IS SPAM...PS...TRY DELETING YOUR TRACKS, MUSIC, ART...YOU CANNOT...WHY...CAUSE THEY THINK THEY OWN US...I AM VETERAN NOBODY OWNS ME....I PAID MY DUES....TRAVIS

Thanks in advance,
Ben


How it works? I think they can delete your stuff but you cannot. It is at their discretion.
If I remember correctly they said once a song was entered in a contest it could not be deleted because it was part of the contest results, or something to that effect.
But as far as "owning us" well they do. They sorta own the stuff you upload. It is in the terms and conditions. I expect the third party referred to might be a PRO.

Scope of License: By displaying, publishing, or otherwise posting any Submitted Content on or through the Site, you hereby grant to OurStage a limited, non-exclusive, sub-licensable, worldwide, fully-paid, royalty free license to use, modify, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such Submitted Content without the requirement to make payment to any third party or the need to seek any third party permission. This license includes the right to host, index, cache, distribute, and tag any Submitted Content.

I'm not real good at interpreting this stuff but it looks to me like you give them the rights to do what ever they want to do with your music, royalty free. But from what I have seen this is standard proceedure on these types of sites.

Last edited by Bill Robinson; 07/22/08 02:59 AM.
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