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Help Support Topics Archive / Re: Unlisting "obsolete" song files
« on: May 25, 2010, 02:44:26 »
First of all, thank you for deleting the song information shown on the website here.
From this experience I learned that internet is a funny thing, ten years back it never seamed to hurt anyone to name some people in your songs. We've never could predicted how privacy would be such a great concern with the world wide web of today. Google's indexing bot's hovering all over the place collecting all kind of information. Maybe that is the price of internet developing, but for me if it is avoidable I'm sure I don't want to pay. I don't know anything about the technical side of a website, but i could imagine that it is possible to hide the instrument data from the search indexing bots?
On behalve of the legal side, you are right. I did gave Modarchive permission 12 years ago for distributing my songs and therefore the distribution is legal. On the other hand, I don't think that is important for this matter. I don't know much about international law's, but there is a Dutch law that defines that the author always has the authority over his works. ( in Holland its the Auteurswet 1912, on European level this should be covered by the directive on the enforcement of intellectual property rights. ) These laws also give you as author the control over the distribution of your work. This means that if you withdraw the permission, the publisher has no other option than stop distributing the work.
I don't want to be ungrateful, and don't shoot me if I am wrong about this, but maybe this is something you should keep in mind.
It's has never been my purpose to "start f***ing things up" on the archive.
Thanks again for helping me out!
From this experience I learned that internet is a funny thing, ten years back it never seamed to hurt anyone to name some people in your songs. We've never could predicted how privacy would be such a great concern with the world wide web of today. Google's indexing bot's hovering all over the place collecting all kind of information. Maybe that is the price of internet developing, but for me if it is avoidable I'm sure I don't want to pay. I don't know anything about the technical side of a website, but i could imagine that it is possible to hide the instrument data from the search indexing bots?
On behalve of the legal side, you are right. I did gave Modarchive permission 12 years ago for distributing my songs and therefore the distribution is legal. On the other hand, I don't think that is important for this matter. I don't know much about international law's, but there is a Dutch law that defines that the author always has the authority over his works. ( in Holland its the Auteurswet 1912, on European level this should be covered by the directive on the enforcement of intellectual property rights. ) These laws also give you as author the control over the distribution of your work. This means that if you withdraw the permission, the publisher has no other option than stop distributing the work.
I don't want to be ungrateful, and don't shoot me if I am wrong about this, but maybe this is something you should keep in mind.
It's has never been my purpose to "start f***ing things up" on the archive.Thanks again for helping me out!