When your given permission by the owner of a work to do something with it thats usually the end of the matter, enter the "muppets" from the IFPI who have other ideas.
http://torrentfreak.com/travis-defends-fan-from-ifpi-threats-080731/Back in May, Kevin from SoMuchSilence saw that the hugely successful band, Travis, were busy completing their new album “Ode to J.Smith“. Kevin managed to acquire a copy of a track from the album, and since Fran Healy from the band had been encouraging people to share the song, he put a link to the track up on the site.
Then, in an email dated July 1st 2008, Kevin got quite a surprise. He told TorrentFreak that he received a notice indicating he had post an ‘infringing file’ and was shocked since Fran Healy had encouraged people to share the track: “It was my first official cease and desist, so I just removed the file and was going to let it go. The IFPI also contacted my server host, who in turn sent me a notice about taking down the file.”
Kevin told us he decided to contact Travis directly, and Fran Healy himself responded in super-quick time, giving his express permission for Kevin to upload the song:
I guess until they get the correct song you can keep on posting it. You definitely have my blessing as one of the 4 holders of the copyrights to that specific recording. I actually think this is bogus. Anyways thanks for posting that on your site. It was lovely to see it out there doing the rounds. We didn’t take it to radio so you’re helping with the pollination of the nation.
After getting this positive message from Fran, the IFPI responded, back-tracking on their earlier mail.
Yet another case it seems of jumping the gun to call folks criminals and with no penalty for making such allegation against a site operator they will walk away smiling, its about time the law recognised justice should be seen to be done, those making false claims of ownership of a copyright work should be forced to pay a penalty to their victims, perhaps then we wont see yet another repeat of this situation, this is after all not the first time the IFPI have done this.
