Alan Doyle And An Urban Folk-Rock Night in New York...A review 2013.

While I often write about the negative behaviour fans engage in, there are many positive behaviours which I think I tend to forget about. Like the exchange of articles from the print media through blogs and social media sites like Twitter and Facebook. For fans like me who do not live in North America it is difficult to stay in the news loop for their favourite artists and musicians. It is fans who shared articles like the ones from the Huffington Post yesterday on Twitter and photographs that help create a community of fans who share a common love of music and musicians they follow where ever they live in the world.

This review was written by Jaime Luben “An Urban Folk-Rock Night” for the Huffington Post on January 23, 2013 on Alan Doyle and his band's recent performance in New York city. It is a wonderful example of how music brings people together. I have not included the whole article due to copyright. No copyright infringement intended. Thank you Jaimee.

“They say you can't please everybody, but tell that to Alan Doyle. Headlining recently at New York institution B.B. King's Blues Club & Grill in Times Square, the always-congenial Newfoundlander (lead singer of iconic band Great Big Sea, now in the midst of his solo tour) joined with The Dunwells and Amy Helm to produce the rare musical hat trick. Accompanied by sweet spirits and the scent of barbecue wafting through the air, each act held the crowd enthralled, and fans of one became eager, rapid converts to the other two…

The experience started with the seating. While not an intimate love-in like Joe's Pub, and lacking the too-cool-for-school quality of the Gramercy Theatre, B.B. King's sturdily accommodating venue encourages a forced communality. In other words, if you're a perpetual singleton, you're automatically placed at a table full of strangers.

Luckily this writer landed a spot directly in front of the stage, adding herself to the party of three enthusiastic Dunwells devotees. It was the perfect vantage point for an evening full of the most pleasant surprises -- a night in an hourglass, the sands of time slipping away before you completely knew what hit you…

During the first two performances, the audience had been gently appreciative, happy to groove along under the sway of good vibrations. But it takes Canadians to make the party. The combined talents of the Alan Doyle Trio (Alan, violinist Kendel Carson, and guitarist Cory Tetford) injected sudden revival into the atmosphere from the moment the big man leapt onstage. Instantly B.B. King's burst with new life as Alan regaled the crowd with jokes and stories between songs, including his observation that the outside marquee reading "A Doyle Dunwells A Helm" sounded like an adult film title, fitting well with the pornstache he's currently sporting (for his part in the upcoming movie Winter's Tale).

Carson, who had made a guest appearance with Amy Helm's band earlier in the evening, sizzled on guitar and her trusty fiddle, a joy to watch. Tetford and drummer Kris Macfarlane displayed their immensely impressive range, switching from up-tempo rock to ponderous ballads and back without a single misstep. All hands were on deck to share a selection of Great Big Sea tunes and tracks from Alan's solo album Boy on Bridge with an electrified room. From the opening lyrics of "Where I Belong," an impassioned ode to Newfoundland, to the Trio's final encore, the crowd's contented energy metamorphosed to a vigorous happiness.

It's hard to describe exactly what ripples through an audience on an occasion such as this, how so many different people can be automatically unified at the strum of a chord or the peal of a voice. The best explanation is that, instinctively, they recognize something familiar. Alan's admitted before that some of his songs contain nuances non-Newfoundlanders might miss, but his music is endowed with a special empathy -- in his own words, "a genuine desire to want to understand how other people's experience is different from your own and similar to it" -- that makes the sound of every note feel like home. This is what we search for as fans, the sense of all-encompassing fellowship, and this is what Friday's three acts were able to give, resulting in a night to remember. As they say, music is the universal language.

Lyndahere...Terms and conditions for the removal of this blog.

To Lyndahere (@lyndahere) the terms and conditions for the removal of the blog Lyndahere Diary of a Serial Stalker...

• You will apply to the appropriate authorities and get a licence for recording at the concerts of Alan Doyle, Great Big Sea, their friends and any of the events they are associated with as per the law.
• You will gain the permission of Alan Doyle, Great Big Sea and their friends before uploading any live recordings onto Youtube as per the Terms of Service or your blog.
• You will remove any pirated videos for example the Live at Revival performance and interviews.
• You will return any videos you have to their rightful owner to do with as they wish. Or you will obtain permission for them to be displayed on Youtube as per the Terms of Service or on your blog.
• You will leave Alan Doyle, Great Big Sea and their friends alone when in private unless invited.
• You will respect the terms and conditions on the tickets you purchase concerning the right to take photographs and video record in particular during Great Big Sea XX.
• You will respect their right of refusal on any of the above points.

In return for complying you will receive

• There will be no threat of further action including possible legal action and complaints to the appropriate authorities.
• There will be no more blog posts written.
• If you comply with the conditions for an extended period of time the blog will be removed.
• I will respect Alan Doyle, Great Big Sea and their friends right to use your videos to promote their music if they so choose.

If you establish an account under another name or use the account of a person known to you, you would have breached the terms and conditions.

You are welcome to respond to my blog. What ever you write will be printed in full.

Liz Smith

Lyndhere, Bootleggers And Trading Continued In 2007...

I found this excellent article on bootlegging and trading in Canada from 2007. It is prior to YouTube. This newspaper article was written around the same time fans raised issues about Lyndahere’s (@lyndahere) stalking of Great Big Sea and Alan Doyle on the previous post “Lyndahere a blast from the past” in April 2007.

It is difficult to know whether or not Lyndahere or her partner were involved bootlegging and trading. Her partner was also into following bands around so there is a chance he is a bootlegger too. In 2008 she established an account on YouTube which would have gone against a lot of what the taping community was about.

“Tape traders live on” by Steve Lillebeun printed at www.star.com published on the 26 March 2007 (No copyright infringement intended).

EDMONTON – While modern music fans download their favourite songs through the Internet, others continue to trade free music the old-fashioned way – mailing albums to each other through the postal service – as part of a community that stretches back to the days of Woodstock and free love.

Tape traders, self-described obsessive fans who record and trade copies of live performances from their favorite musicians, have operated since the late '60s.

One Edmonton trader has collected over 2,000 bootlegged recordings from fellow traders as far away as Denmark and Japan – which he says is only a moderate-sized collection.

"I'm always looking for that really great show when the band really jelled with the crowd," says the 39-year-old physician, who doesn't want his name published.

"We try to seek out these types of shows and collect them, as many as we can."

Artists such as the Dave Matthews Band and Grateful Dead boosted their careers by supporting the grassroots phenomenon – even going so far as to reserve sections at their concerts for bootleggers to set up their own recording equipment.

Others like Tom Waits and Bob Dylan are vehemently opposed to bootlegging and ban audio equipment outright at their shows.

Fans have recorded these shows anyway, hiding microphones in their hair, jackets or hats.

Record companies have tried to crack down on unauthorized music downloading a blatant intellectual property right infringement. Graham Henderson, president of the Canadian Recording Industry Association, is currently touring the country, promoting tough sentences for those who make copies of studio recordings and copyrighted music.

When it comes to self-created recordings of live performances that are traded in smaller circles, however, the legalities are less clear.

"It wasn't so long ago that tape traders weren't a real issue because the technology didn't exist for widespread dissemination," says media lawyer Fred Kozak.

"If it was a quirky bunch of audiophiles trading copies of bootlegged tapes, even the most vigilant artists were less concerned," he says.

"If (the recording) gets into the hands of one person who takes steps to make it more readily available, that gives rise to a great harm, at least in most artists' minds."

The Edmonton music bootlegger says he hasn't heard an adequate argument against taping and trading.

"If you look at the people that are fans, if you look at my collection, I own everything these artists put out as well," he says.

And he notes that most bootleggers don't exchange money – those that do are shunned by the community.

Gabe Sawhney, 29, launched the online Canadian Bootleg Traders Index in 1995 for traders to find lists of available live recordings.

"It was a hobby, I was pretty obsessed with the music," he says from Toronto, recalling how he collected and stored hundreds of recordings from the band They Might Be Giants in his one-room apartment.

While Sawhney stopped running the index a few years ago, there are still hundreds of sites that provide listings for traders around the world.

This mailbox-to-mailbox movement is still active despite new file-sharing networks that have made finding high-quality bootlegs remarkably faster and easier.

A dozen or so websites offer BitTorrents, a form of peer-to-peer high-speed downloading of live recordings from thousands of concerts – Eric Clapton, Black Sabbath or anything in between.

These sites avoid legal trouble by posting online disclaimers that state all live recordings are offered for free and offering artists the ability upon request to opt out of making their live shows available.

Sawhney says he's never used these networks because they remove the sense of community that tape traders have developed.

"There's something about mailing tangible stuff and the wacky little twists that people put on it, like making their own liner notes, that would be lost if it was done online," he says.

"And it does seem problematic because the online stuff is being watched so closely these days."

The owners behind wolfgangsvault.com, for instance, a website archive of vintage rock memorabilia and high-quality audio recordings, are being sued by the surviving members of Led Zeppelin, The Doors and a handful of '60s-era bands.

While legal concerns are one issue, the Edmonton trader says he hasn't switched to online because he's too used to the network of contacts he's established since he began trading in 1993.

The good news, he says, is that public pressure from fans searching for music has forced record companies to react – either by releasing their own live albums of popular bootlegs or by coming up with innovative marketing plans.

Some bands, including the Barenaked Ladies, now sell memory sticks containing the audio file immediately after their live shows.

"It's a great time in music because a lot of artists are realizing that they have to release more," he says.

"I would love to own every show I've ever seen some day. I don't think the record companies will ever have a chance of stopping us."

Lyndahere And A Blast From The Past 2007...

Today Alan Doyle from Great Big Sea announced that he had signed a deal to write his autobiography. Lyndahere (@lyndahere) tweeted Alan Doyle on Twitter

@lyndahere “Spectacular news all (w. much more to be said about it soon), but most of all, the book. “Alan The Author” finally true!” 29January 2013

@lyndahere “Can’t wait, can’t stay in the 140-count,: Alan this is wonderful. Your book will be wonderful. You are wonderful.” 29 January 2013

@lyndahere “At serious risk of blathering just 1 more thing that needs to be said now: I am so proud of you, Alan. The rest for later.” 29 January 2013

I definitely do not want to spoil his news.I am looking forward to reading about his adventures. That is a purchased book not the extracts written on Lyndahere's blog.

@lyndahere “NFDL Car Purchase Culture Shock: No DL shown, no name give, just test drive it off the lot w. no salesman along. I’m not in LA” 26 January 2012

Hopefully Lyndahere will not undermine the release of the book in the same way she did his solo album in 2012 by recording at the ‘Live at Revival” performance and releasing it on YouTube prior to the release of the CD. But I doubt it. I do not expect to read anything about the stalking or see any of her thousands of pictures taken in the book. It goes back to this comment Lyndahere made about Newfoundland and it’s people and their idea of trust. In fact most people’s idea of trust. Most people do walk in to somewhere and do not take things that do not belong to them. It doesn’t matter if it is a car or a song or a CD of songs.

The blog post and the comments are copied from a blog called “From the Habour Great Big Sea in Boston” written on April 13 2007 about Lyndahere, her stalking and impact on fans and the band Great Big Sea. Many of the things I have written about are mentioned in this story and they continue today. It must have been a bitter sweet pill for Lyndahere as it was her excuse for stalking him and Great Big Sea was to write a book. I believe it. This information is contained in a comment in response from the blogpost below.

It seems anything goes in getting a prime position to take photographs and record those videos. These Great Big fans describe how she may use excuses like claustrophobia to get prime tickets to concerts to take photos and record her videos. Really? Seriously? I would have thought all of that time on planes, trains and buses travelling to concerts prove she has it under control if that is what she truly suffers. How insulting to people who really suffer from such conditions and disabilities they need special seating.

If this information is correct I am wondering what excuses she uses today five years on to get prime tickets. Providing insult to other fans, many of whom were robbed of their rightful seats and many of whom probably watch her videos and read her blog.

I think Alan Doyle and Great Big Sea fans feel like this today but don’t write about it on social media for fear of being bullied and alienated from other social media users. As were those on the Great Big Sea Online Kitchen Party and from which she was blocked.

From the Habour. Great Big Sea in Boston. April 13 2007at Blogspot

So many times I've had a thought come to me but no one around to share it with at that very moment, this is why I started a blog, you never know, someone might want to read it. :-)

A friend of mine went to the Great Big Sea concert last night in Boston at the Orpheum, a good sized theatre for a band from Newfoundland but they earned it, they have toured relentlessly in the States for many years slowly gaining a following. My friend did enjoy the show but her reaction isn't the same as it used to be, we've been fans of the band for a very long time now, seen them through a lot, good and bad, you change as a fan after time, especially if you get to know the band as people, not just performers there for your entertainment.

We don't often see the behind the scenes struggles someone in the public eye can go through but sometimes you hear about. I know about the stalking, especially the one that causes so much grief. It's not something I enjoy knowing but it was obvious when this person came on to the scene that she would do what she wants, when she wants and how she wants, regardless of anyone else, including the band.

If you're told to f***-off by someone, on more than one occasion, you'd think they'd get the message but nope, there she is attending almost every single concert, up front as much as she can be. For anyone who doesn't know the story, this person is obsessed with Alan Doyle and follows him everywhere and I do mean everywhere. The man has no peace, not even at home because she stalks him there too when they're off the road, hanging out at places Alan's been known to go, hanging out on the street that he lives. It's sick and it's very sad. It's one thing for the occasional fan to take a trip to St. John's for a week or whatever but this woman spends more time in St.John's than she does in her own city, she's from Seattle. We know she's married, I've even met the fellow but what kind of a marriage do you have when your spouse spends all of her time following around another man she lusts after?

No borders can stop this woman, I know, why don't the band have a restraining order against her, she manages to stay this side of the law, so far, legally their hands are tied until she takes it further. Aside from telling her to f***-off on several occasions, they have sent threatening legal letters but to no avail.

I was watching Northern Mysteries the other day, this episode was about a stalking incident in Alberta, there were some pretty eerie similarities from following the victim to other countries, hiding in the shadows watching his every move to the desire to write a book about the victim.

How uncomfortable it must be to have someone you detest so much standing in front of you night after night, I don't know how they do it and now I hear she's hanging around the band's bus again, why we'll never know, they'll just tell her to f***-off again if she gets close enough to hear it. I think I can understand now why they haven't gone public with this, they've handled themselves admirably as most fans don't know about the stalking. From what I've heard, the fans that do know the story have been snubbing her, good for them I say, she hates that, attention is what she craves most, good or bad.

The best thing the band did was ban the stalker from the message board on their website, although she likes to say she left on her own accord. That's just it though, she spins so much she must be dizzy, the master manipulator I call her, she can twist anything to fit her own version of reality, one of the funniest things she does is to write in her blog about what other people do but really she's writing about herself. I'm amused that she is so bitter about the OKP (the message board at greatbigsea.com), to anyone reading her blog it should be pretty obvious she was banned, especially from what she says about other fans over there, it's really quite pathetic.

Why write about the stalker on my blog? Because I believe in balance, her sick writings are public so the truth should be as well.

Isn't it sad that when I think of Great Big Sea I can't help but to think about the stalker.

Posted by Jenny at 1:17PM

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi there, I just kind of stumbled on to this blog. Feel free to edit this however you see fit and I will absolutely understand.

I agree with you. I know if my spouse was gone 80% of the time following some band member around the world, I wouldn't be married to them for long! Isn't the point of having a life partner to spend time with him or her? Or, maybe she's not really married?

You should have heard the audible gasp from her when GBS was going to play the new song Straight to Hell the other night. I thought she was going to cry, or wet her pants.

The book explanation is a farce. I think it's ridiculous. My guess is there is some kind of inheritance or lottery winning paying for all of this. Afterall, most normal folks couldn't afford to be away from work for so long, living in hotels and eating out, not to mention the money spent on concert tickets. In fact, most normal folks wouldn't want to be doing that.

I like Great Big Sea, they put on a hell of a show, and I've enjoyed every one of the few shows I've seen. However, night after night after night, year after year, would quickly become boring.

Manipulator is a good description. I find it interesting that her seats are always front row. I'd be willing to bet there's some abuse of some kind of disability - say, claustrophobia - to explain how she always manages front row seats. "oh, but mr. theatre manager, I can't possibly be in the middle of the crowd, or even worse at the back". And how could she possibly score front row through pre-sale when multiple shows go on sale at the same time? Maybe the guys could talk to the theatre in advance and try and always get her in the balcony....

ah well, I shouldn't get started. I'm not normally nasty about people but something about her just gets me going. Maybe its the way she nails everyone who doesn't have the same opinion as she does. Maybe its her writing style (verbal diarrhoea). Maybe it is the twists and turns she takes. You know, she blasts everyone who uses smiley faces on OKP, yet she used to use plenty of them herself! And I can't even imagine how Alan's WIFE feels about her. Poor guys.

cheers!

Anna

13.39pm

Anonymous said...

Hi Jenny,

I hope you don't mind me reading your blog and commenting on it. I clicked on your sig over on the OKP and followed the link.

I've met said person AND her husband. I've yet to see them together, but there's no doubt in my mind that they belong to each other in some way. They both exhibit rather creepy behaviour.

Having met the husband I can say that he's just as bad as she is, but for a different band. The only thing that stops him from going to the same level as his wife is his job. He certainly doesn't claim to be writing a book about the band/bands he follows. He at least owned up to the fact that it's his obsession. I wish I had owned a recording device when I met and talked to him that first time. Yeesh.

I agree with Anna about the book explanation being a farce. Considering how long she's been out there following Alan around surely there should be something in the works by now. Not once have I heard a thing about her gearing up to actually publish her 'work' and frankly I don't think her so-called book will see the light of day.

One would hope that with the pre-sales she wouldn't be able to get the front-row tickets. My guess is that she has friends actually buy her front-row tickets for her, so she can get around that little bit of difficulty.

Too bad there wasn't a way to stop her from even getting in the doors of the venues. Have her ticket confiscated and issued a refund of some sort before being sent packing. Hmmm, maybe not such a good idea because that may cause her to escalate her behaviour and we sure don't want that.

I'm impressed at how well the guys handle this situation, and I'm sure their wives are all standing strong with them. I couldn't imagine how difficult this is on all of them, but I give them all the credit in the world for going on with the show in the face of everything.

Bonnie

1.49 AM

Jenny said

Anna, Bonnie, thank you for your comments. Discussing is the path to better understanding, most times at least, although I have no intention of making this blog about Lynda or GBS even, there is far too much going on in the world for me to waste my time.

Anna, no need to edit your comments, and sorry it's taken so long for me to respond.

The book has always been a farce, if she were truly a published author we would have some tangible proof, her word is not worth anything, it has always been and will continue to be her excuse for stalking Alan.

Lynda does use claustrophobia as her disability of choice and has no problem using it to manipulate her way to the front, she's very clever that way. Unfortunately she also built up a bit of a following before getting booted from the OKP, the band waited too long to make their move so she has other people buy the tickets for her, that and the manipulation, an obsessed stalker will stop at nothing to get what they want.

Lynda is a hypocrite, what she writes about other fans doing, be it in the OKP or at concerts, she has done or is doing herself, and worse.

Guess where she just had to be for Alan's birthday? Yup, St. John's. I'm so glad Alan was at his cabin, his only safe retreat. What pisses me off the most is her constantly saying crap like hoping Alan gets everything he wants, he wants her to fuck off, pure and simple, if she really wants him to be happy then she'd leave him the hell alone.

I agree, they have done an admirable job handling this situation Bonnie, most fans have no idea, well, the new ones anyway. She has no way of recruiting new people as she's not welcome on any GBS related message board and her reputation has been following her around from what I gather, she is being shunned at concerts, something she really doesn't like. But, of course, it's all of the fans that are so terrible, not herself. I find the high and mighty attitude she presents on her blog quite hilarious, she pretends its the only place of intelligent discussion about GBS to be found, as if she's some authority about them. She may have been stalking for many years now but she really doesn't know anything about them, just what she projects. It's not real, none of it is.

Lynda has a reputation of multiple board personalities, she made numerous attempts at advertising her blog on the OKP when it first reopened, under many names and in the old OKP she was Calamity Jane among other names. It stands to reason, and fairly evident that the majority of those commenting on her blog are fake. It must be very hard to juggle all of those personalities while traveling like that, not enough time to dedicate to the art of deception, that's probably why there are so few comments on her blog when she's stalking the band on the road.

At a time when Alan and the rest of the guys should be having the time of their lives, they shouldn't have to deal with a parasite like Lynda.

A picture of Alan Doyle and Scott Grimes enjoying a drink taken by @lyndahere. Evidence her stalking is not limited to taking photos and videos at concerts.
 
 

Lyndahere, Youtube And Terms Of Service 2013...

On Tuesday 22 January 2013  Lyndahere (@lyndahere) had another moan on Twitter about an organisation using her ‘work’ or her videos off YouTube without acknowledgement and permission.

@lyndahere “File Video”? You’re making me laugh, NTV”. 22 January 2013

 “What was it? One of yours?” 22 January 2013

@lyndahere “Yep – fr the Gramercy IGP. Glad Alan gets seen w. Sting again but they really should have said “From Youtube”. Bit more honest”. 22 January 2013

 “I hear ya!! Geeze…Shaking my head.” 22 January 2013

@lyndahere “Nowhere near as bad as when the newspapers use your photo and the cutline reads “Staff Photo”. Unwitting volunteer staff, I suppose”. 22 January 2013

 “Yeh unwitting for sure…! That would irk me thought! Grrrr 22 January 2013

@lyndahere “Nope, it just amuses. It’s the media/internet – if you let it irk you, you’ll go cracked. #LessonsLearnedTheHardWay 23 January 2013

 “True – Goes with the territory I guess! 23 January 2013

(The identity of the Twitter account has been removed)

It seems there is one rule for Lyndahere and that it is okay for her to pirate and bootleg other people’s creative work but it isn’t all right for them to pirate hers. So what are the Terms of Service for YouTube and is Lyndahere complying with them. I would like to allege she is not.

Wiki answers states that a standard Youtube license is detailed in the “Terms of Service”, but basically when a person signs up for Youtube they give Youtube the right to broadcast their videos. Apart from that, a person retains all copyright, the right to watch it, but not to download it, copy it or distribute it”.

There are two interesting aspects of the Terms of Service for the use of Youtube that involve Lyndahere. The Terms of Service applies to all users and contributors of content. Content includes text, software, scripts, graphics, photos, sounds, music, videos, audiovisual combinations, interactive features and a range of other features for viewing, accessing and contributing. When a person creates a YouTube account they are solely responsible for the activity that occurs in the account.

The YouTube Terms and Services Section 6 state… 

“You shall be solely responsible for your own Content and the consequences of submitting and publishing your Content on the Service. You affirm, represent, and warrant that you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to publish Content you submit; and you license to YouTube all patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights in and to such Content for publication on the Service pursuant to these Terms of Service…

For clarity, you retain all of your ownership rights in your Content. However, by submitting Content to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, publish, adapt, make available online or electronically transmit, and perform the Content in connection with the Service and YouTube's (and its successors' and affiliates') business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Service (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels.

You also hereby grant each user of the Service a non-exclusive license to access your Content through the Service, and to use, reproduce, distribute, display, publish, make available online or electronically transmit, and perform such Content as permitted through the functionality of the Service and under these Terms of Service…(even if you decide to delete it.)

You further agree that Content you submit to the Service will not contain third party copyrighted material, or material that is subject to other third party proprietary rights, unless you have permission from the rightful owner of the material or you are otherwise legally entitled to post the material and to grant YouTube all of the license rights granted herein.

You further agree that you will not submit to the Service any Content or other material that is contrary to the YouTube Community Guidelines, currently found at http://au.youtube.com/t/community_guidelines, which may be updated from time to time, or contrary to applicable local, national, and international laws and regulations”.

The Terms of Service are specific in that people placing content on YouTube must have all the appropriate licences and permission of those involved. Wikisummaries states on the YouTube Terms of Service “Such content must be your own or you should have copyright owner’s written permission”. I would like to allege Lyndahere did not have permission from Alan Doyle, Great Big Sea and any of the artists and musicians to make live recordings at their concerts or a license and as a consequence has breached them.

When Lyndahere created her YouTube account she effectively allowed YouTube to use the material in any way they wanted. Wikisummaries states on the YouTube Terms of Service “You retain the copyright for your content, but by submitting it to YouTube you are giving YouTube the right to use the material in any form that it may desire. This right will terminate only when you remove the content from YouTube website”. She has also allegedly signed away rights she did not have permission to do, and that is the right of the artists and musicians whose music she has bootlegged. Under the Terms of Service Lyndahere is not entitled to any royalties from the use of the material on her site. There is no clause that states those using the content are required to acknowledge their source. They are entitled to make derivative works for example making photographs from the videos of the live recordings.

YouTube states on their copyright site that describes what copyright is, how to avoid an infringement and about possible infringements that include videos of live concerts.…

“The most common reason we take down videos for copyright infringement is that they are unauthorized copies of copyrighted content, and the owners of the copyrighted content have altered us that their content is being used without their permission. Once we have become aware of an unauthorized use, we will remove the video promptly…Some examples of potentially infringing content are

• TV shows,
• Music videos, such as the ones you might find on music video channels,
• Videos of live concerts, even if you captured the video yourself,
• Movies and movie trailers,
• Commercials,
• Slide shows that include photos or images owned by somebody else.

However, there would be exemptions for videos made of live concerts for example, if the artists or musicians owned the rights to the material they were performing and wanted to make a video of their performance, gave permission for someone else to make a video at a concert or the person recording the video obtained permission or the artists and musicians had an open taping policy. There may also be exemptions under fair usage for organisations like news and television entertainment programs as they usually only record a small amount of footage.

There are many things Lyndahere does on her live recordings however they may be a copyright infringement…

• If you give credit to the owner/author/songwriter—it may still be copyright infringement.
• If you are not selling the video for money—it may still be copyright infringement.
• If similar videos appear on our site—it may still be copyright infringement.
• If the video contains a copyright notice—it may still be copyright infringement.
• If you created a video made of short clips of copyrighted content—even though you edited it together, it may still be copyright infringement.
• If you taped it off cable, videotaped your TV screen, or downloaded it from some other website, it may still be copyright infringement and requires the copyright owner's permission to distribute or can only be used within the limits of legal exceptions to copyright.

YouTube copyright information states about fair usage under the US Copyright Act…

“It's possible that you may be permitted to include small excerpts from copyrighted material in your video if what you intend to use is insubstantial or is incidentally included, or where the intended use you have for the copyrighted material falls within a exception or limitation to copyright under the law in your country…YouTube cannot advise whether or not your video will ultimately qualify as fair use; this is something that can only be decided by a court. It is your responsibility to know the laws in your country, and to understand fair use before you decide to make a video incorporating copyrighted content without permission. If you choose to do so, and your video is removed by the copyright owner, it is even more important that you understand your position before deciding to submit a copyright counter-notification.

I do not have a YouTube account and do not know how it functions. On Wikipedia it states YouTube users uploading content are shown a screen that says "Do not upload any TV shows, music videos, music concerts or advertisements without permission, unless they consist entirely of content that you created yourself. Despite this advice, there are still many unauthorized clips of copyrighted material on YouTube. Lyndahere has knowingly loaded up content onto both her sites on YouTube Between The Rock and And A Passionate Kisses she did not create herself. The discussion between Lyndahere and a fan raises the issue for the need for education of some women users on the Internet and the importance of reading information before signing onto social media sites about issues like copyright.

References

“What does a standard license mean” at www.wiki.answers.com viewed 22 January 2013.

YouTube Terms of Service Summary at WikiSummaries, viewed 22 January 2013.

YouTube Copyright Information viewed 22 January 2013.

YouTube Wikipedia viewed 22 January 2013.

Lyndahere And Taking Pictures At The Movies...

Lyndahere (@lyndahere) provided the following advice on her Twitter to another person about taking pictures in the movies.

@liltexasgal How do I take a screen shot from the movie theatre without bothering people around me? 17 January 2013

@lyndahere Sit at the back, keep it low, turn off the flash, turn off sound on the camera. Test ahead of time to be sure it is all off. 17 January 2013.

I have been reflecting on these tweets on Twitter from these two people. I am wondering why they would want to take pictures in the movies. There is the spender of all that is a movie, the popcorn and soda, the company of good friends or children or being on your own in your own space doing what exactly what you want to. As Russell Crowe said in Gladiator “Are you not entertained?”

Why would people with all the information on the Internet out there be interested in taking images in the movies? I will use Les Miserables as an example because both these women are Russell Crowe fans and have attended his concerts in New York. A film full of talented people, beautiful imagery, costumes, a great story and moving music and nominated for Academy Awards and a range of other awards. Russell Crowe’s tweet stream on Twitter is full of people experiencing such a range of emotions, marvelling at its beauty and splender to disappointment at individual cast performances.

These people are mature middle age women (one with a family) taking pictures at the movies not teenagers. The pictures taken surely would not be of a higher quality than those of the studio. A search of Google images will bring up a range of beautiful images released from the studio and other sources. There are official clips on YouTube to be watched and a whole range of official pages on social media sending out information on a daily basis to be viewed and read. Then there are all the other sites that promote movies and entertainment, more information than anyone could want.

In my part of the world taking pictures at the movies would be rude and annoying to people around them wanting to enjoy the experience, as is using a mobile phone. But it is America after all, and acceptable conduct at the movies may be different than everywhere else. Taking pictures of a movie projected in a theatre is also illegal under the copyright act. In my opinion a patron in a movie theatre cannot reproduce a movie, distribute a work, perform the content elsewhere, display a copy of the movies or make derivative works. A derivative work is defined by Copyright Kids as “a work that is based up one or more pre-existing works. One of the exclusive rights of a copyright owner is to make derivative works. The United States Copyright Act gives many examples of what is a derivative work. One example is a motion picture based upon a book. If you create a derivative work with the permission of the owner of the underlying work, you as the author of the derivative work can obtain a copyright covering the original material you contributed”. A picture taken at a movie theatre would be a derivative work. There are a whole range of works that are protected under copyright that include musicals, motion pictures and other audio visual sounds and sound recordings.

There are some circumstances in which people can reproduce others work without permission. Copyright Kids describes fair usage “The exclusive rights of the copyright owner are not unlimited. The copyright law establishes some limitations on these rights. One of the most important limitations on the exclusive rights is the doctrine of "Fair Use." The "Fair Use" doctrine allows limited copying of copyrighted works for educational and research purposes. The copyright law provides that reproduction "for purposes such as criticism, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research" is not an infringement of copyright. The law lists the following factors, which courts must consider together in determining whether a particular use of a copyrighted work is a permitted "Fair Use," or is instead an infringement of the copyright”.

It was difficult to find information about taking pictures of movies in a theatre. There is plenty of information on how to take pictures off DVDs using a home computer but not in movie theatres. It is also illegal to copy pictures from DVDs.

So why should we care? Copyright Kids provides an excellent answer…

“As the creator of your work, you should have the right to control what people can and cannot do with your work. In the United States - one of the world's biggest sources of creative works like movies, television shows, books, computer games, etc. -- this right to control your work has actually turned into big business, but that's what allows all the creative people around us to get paid for coming up with all the wonderful songs, shows, books, painting, movies and other great works that we enjoy. Just think of all the cool songs your favorite band wrote, the great books you loved reading, the plays, movies and television shows you love to watch again and again. These talented musicians, authors, illustrators and screenwriters deserve our respect and appreciation - and they deserve to make a living from the hard work they put into their creative works -- otherwise most of them wouldn't be able to produce as many (or any) of the songs, books, plays, movies and TV shows that you like. That's what copyright is all about. It reflects our appreciation for all the hard work that goes into creating "original works of authorship" and respect for the right of the creator of that work to control what people can and cannot do with it.”

Some of the beautiful official images from Universal Studios on Google Images





References

Pictures Universal Studios

Motion Picture Association of America

Childnet International

Copyright Kids

Lyndahere And Her Bootlegging Critics...

I was looking at some videos on YouTube of some the bands mentioned in the previous blogpost like the Dave Matthews Band. I found some quiet interesting comments on each of the videos ranging from praise of all kinds for the band and their music to criticism of the quality of the videos. In one case a music pirate has changed the sound track of one video with another. So what do the consumers of illegally recorded material (both pirated and bootlegged) think about the quality of the product they are buying? A high number of hits doesn’t necessarily reflect the quality of a product more the demand to see it. The reason for the dislikes often do not show up in the comments.

So what do people think about Lyndahere's (@lyndahere) bootlegged videos? 

I decided to view comments made on approximately 50 of the latest uploaded bootlegged videos on Russell Crowe and his gang’s Indoor Garden Party performances in New York City to see what consumers thought. I picked those bootlegged videos because there are not as many as for Great Big Sea and it was a relatively quiet year as members pursued their individual careers. I imagined the comments sections of Lyndahere’s Between the Rock and And a Passionate Kisses YouTube sites to be heavily edited (as Twitter is with any criticism of her videos are swiftly shot down) and I will not find any negative comments about the production of the videos.

I expect the only negative comments made will be the comments made on Twitter by Russell Crowe about the quality of the sound of one of her videos made at the St John’s Indoor Garden Party song by Scott Grimes of the brilliant From Hear Clear to the Ocean. He wrote on his Twitter page several months ago

“Even with shit fanvid sound,you just can't deny From Here Clear To The Ocean Garden Par...: “ 13 September 2012.

And Lyndahere was quick to respond to Russell Crowe’s criticism with the following tweets.

@russellcrowe @ScottGrimes And if fanvid sound were not shit, people would simply grab the audio & not bother buying the song. Not the goal. 14 September 2012

@russellcrowe @ScottGrimes The videos are supposed to whet the appetite, not sate it. 14 September 2012.

The other major comments that were made were in response to Murray Foster from Great Big Sea on Twitter who retweeted a video by Lyndahere.

It was interesting what I read in the comments sections. I have attached a copy of some of the most interesting comments. There was of course lots of praise for the musicians and artists and Lyndahere’s ‘sharing’. Lyndahere writes “It's always OK to share. :)”. It is of course not alright. Songs and music are intellectual and creative property that belong to someone. Sharing intellectual property without permission is illegal under the law, immoral and disrespectful because it does not involve consent. It is nice to share if people are the legal owner of any intellectual and creative property and share it for free or give their permission for people to do so.

There were dislikes in particular on the song Mother’s Cross and comments made. Those comments are below. People are allowed to express an opinion on YouTube either in writing or by pressing a dislike button. But ticking the dislikes box doesn’t provide a reason why people dislike it and it may be the production of the video rather than the song. Some comments were blocked. There were people who didn’t like the performance of the musicians and artists involved, attacks on other Great Big Sea fans about nothing that had to do with the song or videos on very popular videos, comments on the nationalities of the musicians and artists including Australians and disagreements between contributors over the quality of the performances. But nothing but praise for the production of her videos.

The following comment was made by Lyndahere on the ‘Man in Mirror’ video,

“Look for some unique perspectives of those both onstage and in the audience as the camera winds up in the hands of a few unexpected (unexpected by me, to be sure) videographers October 13 2012. Man in Mirror October 13 2012. I don’t remember any comments about these events made on Twitter by Lyndahere or anyone else.

Lyndahere referred to herself as a ‘videographer’ rather than a bootlegger. So what is a videographer I ask myself? A definition by the Merriam Webster Online dictionary states videography is “the practice of recording images with a video camera”. The Scrabble Word Finder states a videographer is “any person involved in the production of video material but especially a person who uses a camera”. Dictionarydot.com states a videographer is “a person who makes films with a video camera”.

So how is that different than a bootlegger who also makes videos? The Merriam Webster Online dictionary states a bootleg is an “unauthorised audio or video recording”. The Free online Dictionary states to bootleg is “to produce, distribute or sell without permission or illegally”. Therefore, a bootlegger is a person who makes an unauthorized audio or video recording. The main difference between a videographer and a bootlegger is whether or not the person is authorized to do so. There is no evidence to state Lyndahere has gained a license in accordance with the law to make videos at concerts or has the permission of the musicians and artists involved. What name a person uses to describe the activity they do doesn’t make it legal and respectable.

I clearly need to broaden my research field if I am to really to gain an understanding of what people think about bootlegged material which I shall do. But next on the list of things to find out about is the Standard Youtube License and Creative Commons being introduced that allows people to use videos from people like Lyndahere that provides links and acknowledgment to the original work without the threat of breaching copyright. How ironic to give bootleggers who record without a license copyright over their material and other people permission to use it without the threat of legal action. 



Disappeared 8 December 2012
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What a great song, great to see Russel Crowe singing, along with Alan Doyle. And Miss Barks, what a beauty and wonderfull human being. I wish her the very best in this short yet amazing life we have. :)

Mother's Cross December 2 2012
There were four dislikes to this song.
BetweenTheRock 1 monthago
Yes, it really does make you wonder, doesn't it?
in reply to
4 dislikes?? they obviously do not understand the song or the reason it was written.

Perfect in Your Eyes 12 December 2012
Cherryl Maree 1 month ago
This is one of my favourites too. It does not need anything but Alan's guitar and in this video I can hear the richness in Russell's voice coming through. Thank you for posting.

Hit the Ground and Run 8 December 2012
Katie T 1 month ago
pause..... why does Sam have only a towel on?! Haha
BetweenTheRock 1 month ago
Read the video description for the story

Don't You Remember 8 December 2012
TheEvilsquiril 1 month ago
Love Sam so much! So talented!
BarksGlobal 1 month ago
She is actually amazing. In total awe of her voice :) Thankyou for posting this!

From Here Clear to the Ocean 8 December 2012
Frommybackyard 4 days ago
Having the Indoor Garden Party on line has been a great Christmas gift. I think this is my favourite of all the clips. The lyrics speak from the soul and Scott makes them soar. Clear sailing and all the best for the New Year to him and the rest of the crew

Fairytale of New York 8 December 2012
ritsfata 1 month ago
Ok..... um, why doesn't Sam get any credit in the title of this video? She's hands down the most talented human being in the room, and she deserves to have her name in the title. WELL DONE SAM, I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!

The Confrontation 8 December 2012
There were comments withheld on this video.
Zero2026X 1 week ago
*SPOILER* It's too bad that the last part of this song which Russell actually hit beautifully in this video, was just cut off from the movie. I always thought those lines were very important as it declared a challenge from both men to each other, until the very end

grognakbabarian 1 week ago
Hugh Jackman Sounded like he had something stuck in his throat
freakwifme 2 weeks ago
Bloody Aussies are always nicking Kiwi talent and, need I say anything about pavlova!
Jody Gnant 2 weeks ago
Not to be a troll, but yeah, I actually do sing better than that. :
countrylillac 2 weeks ago
yeah, and i suppose you're so a master in both singing and acting...mr. crowe has an astonishing performance here. criticise only if you can do better. the clip is absolutelly beautiful. In reply to Jody Gnant
Cherryl Maree 1 month ago
Someone else has posted a version of this which has turned up on the news sites....yours is far superior would it be alright if I share it on FB so my friends can enjoy it as well?
BetweenTheRock 1 month ago
It's always OK to share. :) in respond to Cheryl Maree

Walking in Memphis 13 October 2012
ConceitedWombat 2 months ago
So perfect. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Marie Hueglin 2 months ago
Oh just noticed that kiss into the mike at 2:28!
Marie Hueglin 2 months ago
OMG Lynda!Beautiful!!!! Merci xoxoxox

Sadness of a Woman 13 October 2012
gdgest 2 months ago
Excellent video. Thanks for sharing. :-)
Crazy 13 October 2012
kyprios1200 2 months ago
Can't hear this piece without smiling. The man is a beast full of creative talent and dexterity. A mighty tree with many strong branches. How much fun do these guys have together?

Man in the Mirror 13 October 2012
fdafsdfasgs 1 week ago
Not a big audience yet everyone is having a great time, that's how it should be
Every Breath you take with Sting 13 October 2012


Krista 2 weeks ago
@80sretrotv And furthermore, you need a life worse than I do.
Krista 2 weeks ago
@80sretrotv I don't know who you think you are, but this BS has to stop. Those involved know the truth, you don't
80sretrotv 2 months ago
Oh and stalking Alan's parents? Really? Why don't you get a job and use your office degree in reply to Krista (Show the comment)
80sretrotv 2 months ago
You would know that wouldn't you Krista ... how about Pregnancy test in the trash at Alan's house.
in reply to Krista (Show the comment)
Krista 2 months ago
takes one to know one ceedkay
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References
www.backwardglance.wordpress.com

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Lyndahere And Musicians And Artist's Opinions Of Bootlegging...

It’s a new year and Lyndahere (@lyndahere) is off stalking and bootlegging Alan Doyle of Great Big Sea on some of his solo gigs in America and Canada in New Hampshire, LA, New York and Vancouver and British Columbia Canada. She did quite well in bootlegging the Russell Crowe New York Indoor Garden Party concerts at Joe’s Pub on 8 December 2012 on all accounts after receiving approximately 200000 hits for all the live recorded videos put up YouTube. Approximately $1000 tax free if she is collecting revenue from YouTube. Not bad for four hours work when the average American wage per hour is low.

On her Twitter page Lyndahere wrote these tweets along with all the rest

@lyndahere @alanthomasdoyle Yes, you were awesome, that is. As always. Tonight White River Jct. will be Awesome Trifecta 12 January 2013

@lyndahere I love it when people get excited about your solo music. That’s almost as sweet as is gets. NYC show will be awesome, Alan @alanthomasdoyle 11 January 2013

@lyndahere 5.30 am airport shuttle = time to get a bit of sleep tonight. Great night tonight with the Alan Doyle Band. More shows alandoyle.ca/tour 11 January 2013

@lyndahere A gorgeous Dream of Home Alan Doyle Tupelo Music Hall, Londonderry NH on Youtube @alanthomasdoyle 11 January 2013

@lyndahere Gotta love a man who knows right where he belongs: Alan Doyle, Tupelo Music Hall, Londonderry on Youtube @alanthomasdoyle 11 January 2013

@lyndahere I love St. John’s but from what I am hearing and reading about current weather conditions, I don’t think I mind not loving her until Tuesday 11 January 2013

So what do some musicians and artists think about the bootlegging of their live shows? After a brief search of the Internet the opinions of musicians and artists recording their concerts are pretty diverse. Some don’t like it and make their opinions very clear. Others issue statements and develop policies. Others approve for a variety of reasons with some conditions on recording like for personal use only and no trading. Some bootleg their own concerts and release them to fans. But regardless of what the musicians or artists want most people like Lyndahere who buy tickets to concerts will always do exactly what they want with little respect for what the musicians and groups want and still call themselves fans.

In 2000, over 70 musicians and artists formed a coalition in the fight against all kinds of piracy. They included Canadians Bryan Adams, Barenaked Ladies and Alanis Morissette and Bon Jovi, Christina Aguilera, Faith Hill, Garth Brooks and Metallica. “AAP’s goal is to create public awareness, appreciation and understanding of the value of music and to advocate artists’ choice in determining how their music is presented, distributed and marketed online”. The initiative was also supported by various companies. The fight continues in 2012 as British musicians and artists lead by Sir Elton John, Pete Townshend and Robert Plant wrote a letter to the British Prime Minister David Cameron to influence the government to implement the antipiracy focused Digital Economy Act 2010 that will assist in the fight against music piracy.

Action seems to be taken at venues as well as by artists and musicians at various concerts. They are described in a bootlegger’s blog called “Starknakedtruth: Confessions of a Rock Concert Bootlegger”. Most alleged self-confessed bootleggers start out with good intentions and to trade only but then get into selling attracted to the huge amounts of money involved. This bootlegger writes about the conflicts between his real job and his bootlegging business, developing tricks of the trade, running a website and dealing with customers, numerous conflicts with security and police, fights with other fans who reported him to the RIAA and band’s management, and problems of distribution through sites like EBay blocking the sale of some bootlegs. He talks about fans willing to take action or perhaps other bootleggers ratting out the opposition. “Janis’s lawyers sent me a letter to ‘cease and desist’ in any distributions of copies of this show, after a fan on her message board rats me out to her lawyers. I would receive about half dozen of such legal letters to comply to from various bands like Cheap Trick, Journey ect in their future”. Despite all the objections from the musicians and artists themselves, their security, fans and actions by EBay this person continued to bootleg and sell them.

In 2004 a Finnish man was prosecuted for spreading unauthorised recordings of Alanis Morissette concerts on the Internet. The man was found to have swapped over 1900 copies of auauthorised concerts recordings between 1999 and 2003 with other bootleggers through his website. He had not made illegal recordings himself. He was ordered to pay $21 756 in compensation to Morissette and others for copyright infringement. Alanis Morissette was of course at the for front of the Artists Against Piracy campaign established in 2000 as were many of the musicians and artists bootlegged by the author of Starknaked Truth blog.

The Dave Matthews Band is one band whose views on tapping live shows is well documented and is on their official site as they allow it at almost all of their performances. Their taping policy on their official webpage states “ We feel that each show is unique and want to offer our fans the opportunity to recreate the live experienced through the audio reproduction of our shows. At all taping authorised performances tapers can tape form any ticketed seating located in the venue. Also for many of these performances tapers are able are to purchase specially designated taper section, normally located immediately behind the soundboard…Taping is limited to audio-only, using microphones…We sincerely appreciate all of our fans so we ask you that you please be considerate of those around you by not obstructing anyone else’s of the performances…All recordings must be used for personal used or trading only…”.

The Dave Matthews Band unlike others recognises bootlegging is a major problem in the music industry. They recognised the contribution fans can make in the fight against bootlegged material “Those of you who have passed along information about commercialised recordings have been very instrumental in our fight against bootleggers. An equality important violation of the integrity of the music is the unauthorised commercial exploitation of the band now occurring on television and radio…And don’t forget the battle of the bootleggers is an ongoing one”. But despite their best intention, generosity and attempts to cooperate with their fans by allowing taping and trading there will always be those out to exploit. A search of the Dave Matthews Band on Youtube shows this in the number of hits of illegally copied pirated videos and bootlegged material. Despite the policy being displayed on their home webpage some fans remain ignorant and choose to ignore it. In one illegal video I watched the sound recording and the visual were from two different concerts.

To me the taping policy of Great Big Sea has been made perfectly clear via Twitter. That is they don’t mind people taping their shows for personal use but they don’t like their entire concerts being taped and posted on YouTube. This is evident in the fact the three primary members of Great Big Sea (Alan Doyle, Bob Hallett and Sean McCann) have never officially acknowledged or retweeted any of Lyndahere’s hundreds of videos she has sent them via Twitter in the last year or so. Alan Doyle has on occasions tweeted Lyndahere welcoming her presence at concerts but never acknowledged any of her videos. Links and retweets of her videos have on a very few rare occasions been provided by Russell Crowe, Scott Grimes and other friends of Alan Doyle such as Great Big Sea member Murray Foster and Alan Doyle Band member Kendel Carson. Nearly all Great Big Sea fans respect their unspoken taping policy and are more interested in creating memories for the moment listening and enjoying the music than creating memories for someone else to visit sometime in the future. But I could be wrong.

Bootleggers and those that view and make live recordings at concerts continually justify their activities with a range of arguments. Bootlegging is a hobby of music enthusiasts and they should be allowed to do free from legal threat. There is a thought that a fan base will increase if they are allowed to video and trade in bootlegged material following certain guidelines or rules and create a community of fans. However, it is clear in the case of Great Big Sea and Alan Doyle that the primary bootlegger Lyndahere is not interested in following other guidelines laid down for taping by the venues or ticket holders or those of the musicians.

Bootleggers seemed more concerned about the fans their bootlegged videos on YouTube may attract than the people who have already purchased tickets and are there at the concert. In one of the official and bootlegged videos of Russell Crowe’s Indoor Garden Party in New York bootleggers have their cameras on in the front row and in others by the audience they are raising their cameras above the crowd obstructing someone’s views and shining a light in their face. There is clear evidence they piss off some performers such as Neil Young. “With the Internet there is no more privacy and not even the chance to express yourself in front of your audience in the intimacy of a concert that lets songs evolve. You can’t do this because they immediately get it circulated”.

Bootlegged recordings made by relatively unknown bands can be used as a cheap form of publicity without paying for the large overheads like labour to produce it, the license to record or the distribution. Bootleggers like Lyndahere believe live recordings help bring in new fans who will in turn go to concerts and buy CDs. Illegal live recordings are used as modes of word-of-mouth advertising to increase enthusiasm amongst fans and create a community. Bootlegged recordings are often the first material many fans see and as a consequence may be turned off because of the poor quality and discourage fans from attending concerts. Bootlegging can also work in reverse and piss people off who don’t agree with piracy, and who support the coalition of musicians and artists who don’t support piracy. In a country like America on the brink of an economic crisis, money for entertainment of any kind is limited. If a concert is bootlegged in the way Lyndahere bootlegs more and more people are going to watch it on YouTube. Rather than spend $30 on a ticket to a show they can pay for Internet usage for a whole month. They are very unlikely to buy a CD if they can access it for free.

Canadian Neil Young writes in his biography Waging Heavy Peace about being on the road, performing to today’s audience and the presence of technology at concerts “If you forget what you’re doing, it shows up on YouTube. If you do something new that isn’t ready, or something old that you screw up, it is on YouTube. If snot comes off your nose while you are playing the harmonica and slithers down the harmonica rack onto your T-shirt, it is on YouTube. If you say something stupid…”

References

“Artists speak out against piracy” at www.musicunited.org viewed 10 January 2013.

“Artists Against Piracy Launches Nation Media Campaign” at www.interentnews.com/ec-news/articles viewed on 10 January 2013.

“Finn ordered to pay Alanis Morissette for Internet bootleg spreading” www.murmurs.com viewed 10 January 2013.

Rolling Stone, “Elton John, Pete Townshend and Robert Plant Sign Anti-Piracy Letter to British Prime Minister”, 25 July 2012. www.rollingstone.com/music/news viewed 10 January 2013.

“Starknakedtruth; Confessions of A Rock Concert Bootlegger 9 October 2012” www.startnakedtruth.blogspot.com viewed 10 January 2013

Young, N. 2012. Waging Heavy Peace. Penguin Group: London.