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How My Music Was Plagiarized for Profit and How I Fought Back

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If everything Jeremy Lim is saying is true, it's encouraging to see the dreaded DMCA being used to fight against actual IP violations of "the little guy," as well as companies going above and beyond to help him out. Kudos Jeremy - nice artistic work, and working with the system to recover your work.

I can't believe how selfish this guy is. Doesn't he know that having other people lay claim to his music is the highest form of praise? Praise that he doesn't deserve, since he doesn't play live and appears to think that he should be entitled to exploit his own creative output for financial gain. A real parasite on society.

/sarcasm

Steal my music? I can accept that and can even appreciate the exposure. Steal my music with someone else’s name on it? Oh, man. I wanted to hurl.

Sarcasm aside, this is a wide miss when it comes to this guy. There's a huge difference between a fan that wants to hear your tracks for free (which they can all do right on the artist's website and youtube channel) and a predator who searches for that perfect nexus of mildly popular up-and-comer who lacks the legal muscle to fight back in order to exploit both artist and fan alike.

I don't know why the three of you insist on trying to shift the argument to piracy, which I didn't even bring up. There, unfortunately, lots of people who defend the idea that 'there's nothing new under the sun' and therefore it's OK to appropriate the work of others for remixing or what-all else.

The fact that you're defending against an argument I never made in the first place strikes me as a classic case of 'protesting too much'.

But it's interesting that Limm didn't seem upset about people sharing his work. What hurt him was that somebody else had claimed authorship, and somebody else was receiving the royalties.

If this is some sort of misguided attempt to liken this situation to end consumers pirating music, I'm afraid you're way off base (and on quite a high horse).

If it isn't please explain because I'm not understanding your point.

He was being sarcastic.

It's not even very good sarcasm in this case, since the author openly says in the article that he didn't really mind and appreciated the exposure that came from his music being pirated, except for this case, in which it was being attributed to someone else (depriving him of said exposure).

A quick search on Google Play still lists the track mentioned: http://i.imgur.com/IUe6qwE.png

This happens quite often. Something similar happened to Bjorn Lynne, who some might remember as "Dr Awesome" from the days of .MOD files. Bjorn posted his story via updates on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1015166480... https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1015166480... https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1015168726...

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