{"id":207,"date":"2003-10-14T15:19:56","date_gmt":"2003-10-14T20:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/no-beatles-4-u\/"},"modified":"2003-10-14T15:19:56","modified_gmt":"2003-10-14T20:19:56","slug":"no-beatles-4-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/no-beatles-4-u\/","title":{"rendered":"no beatles 4 u"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the bbc has a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/music\/3190052.stm\">piece<\/a> that quotes an EMI spokesperson saying,  &#8220;<em>The Beatles have chosen not to put their music online<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>of course,  the beatles back catalog is already online, but this is a spokesperson talking about &#8220;legit&#8221; (as in paying for) download sites.  i&#8217;m also given to understand that green day, beyonce and creed (to name a few more) are not available online.<\/p>\n<p>those of you following my closely probably already know this, but it&#8217;s probably worth repeating on this subject.  my work on solving the problem of the business of music largely ignores the back catalog.  there are a few reasons for this, and this is one of them.<\/p>\n<p>anyway, i don&#8217;t want to fault the beatles for this decision (or whomever it was that made the decision) &#8211; it&#8217;s perfectly legitimate.  one of the principles i strongly believe in is that the artist should be able to say &#8220;no&#8221; and do what they think is in their own [long term] best interest.  of course, that opens up the whole issue of getting artists to think in the &#8220;long term&#8221; but that&#8217;s a discussion for another day.<\/p>\n<p>a legal read on this might be that there&#8217;s an ongoing dispute between apple (the beatles label) and apple (the computer company) about itunes.  anything that could bias that case would be a Very Bad Thing for apple (the beatles).<\/p>\n<p>in any case, since it is the beatles, it was worth mentioning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the bbc has a piece that quotes an EMI spokesperson saying, &#8220;The Beatles have chosen not to put their music online.&#8221; of course, the beatles back catalog is already online, but this is a spokesperson talking about &#8220;legit&#8221; (as in paying for) download sites. i&#8217;m also given to understand that green day, beyonce and creed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}