Posted on 12/19/2021 12:14:05 AM PST by ProfessorGoldiloxx
"Nobody riffs on Eric Clapton — least of all bootleggers.
As one widow just learned, Clapton doesn’t take too kindly to anyone profiting off of his music — not even just $11. The Cream guitarist has won a copyright infringement case against a woman in Germany who attempted to sell a burned copy of a Clapton concert recorded in the 1980s. DW reported that she copied the work from a CD purchased at a department store by her late husband in 1987.
The 55-year-old woman from Ratingen was selling the ripped disc on eBay for €9.95, or about $11.25. Minus shipping and eBay’s share of the sale — that’s a cut of 14.55% plus 30 cents off the sale price on music (excluding vinyl) — she stood to make an estimated $9.30. ..."
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Copying it is one thing. Selling it is another.
Let’s go Clapton!
Not saying what she did is right but from what I’ve read she’s a poor widow trying to make a very few dollars off a CD who now has to pay a $4000 court fee. Clapton’s net worth is estimated to be between 250 and 450 million dollars. Come on, Eric, have a little heart. Make a public show that you won’t have your music ripped off but take care of the court fee and maybe even give the woman some money as an act of charity. Jesus praised the widow who put her mite into the treasury but was filled with contempt for the rich man making a display of putting his hundred dollars or whatever in. I want to like Clapton, he may be the world’s most famous witness to a vaccine injury.
eBay’s share of the sale —
***He shoulda got his $11 from the lady and sued ebay for a cool million.
Lucky it wasn’t a Led Zeppelin bootleg when Peter Grant was still alive.
He used to go to every city Zeppelin played in searching the local stores to see if they were selling Zeppelin bootlegs and woe betide anyone he caught doing it.
She also violated ebay’s seller listing terms.
Sued by “God”? What an honor!
Wow extra stout
I thought the New York Post was on our side. The article labels Clapton a “curmudgeon” for being against lockdowns and refusing to play concert venues requiring a QR code.
Eric Clapner doesn’t need the money.
“Eric Clapner doesn’t need the money.”
Ditto, 11 dollars.? Lets Go Clapner
Funny how suddenly people here don’t believe in property rights.
I read the article. My take is this has less to do with Clapton, and all to do with his anti-vac stand. The author clearly has an agenda.
Clapton’s lawyers most likely have won these cases before, in fact, there are probably thousands of boot legged copies of his work out there.
My thought, why not buy the CD from her, and make it available to the public?
“There’s only so much you can eat. There’s only so big a house you can have. There’s only so many nice trips you can take. I mean, it’s enough.”
Has anyone heard about Ebay next year, sending seller revenues to the IRS? If that’s so, then that will definitely put the kibosh further on them.
Paying tax on garage sale items?
You’d go to eBay to buy a vintage used Martin guitar. Now you’re paying up to 10% tax on the sale.
Property rights, okay, but property rights to the point of a person worth $450 million asking for $4000 “relief” from a person who sounds like she doesn’t have a pot to p*ss in?
You sound just like the Obama quote I posted above.
By contrast, the Grateful Dead never worried about bootlegging, and even encouraged it or at least looked the other way.
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