<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 3, 2007, at 22:07 , Marcos Marado wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Explica-me como é que, se fosses tu, conseguirias distribuir musica</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">em formato digital em formatos livres.</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Da mesma forma que o allofmp3, por exemplo, fazia.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Fazia ou faz? E não é esse site que pegava num loophole da lei russa e estava no limiar da legalidade? Lá por ser quase legal na russia, não quer dizer que seja legal, não é ? Basta ler a faq dos gajos:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><OL><LI style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; background-color: #e2e6ee"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111622" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">Is the Allofmp3 pay service legal</SPAN></FONT></LI><LI style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; background-color: #e2e6ee"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#091022" face="Verdana">Yes; we <B>believe</B> it is legal in Russia under Articles 44 and 45 of the Law of the Russian Federation No. 5351-1</FONT></LI></OL><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><OL><LI style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; background-color: #e2e6ee"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111622" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">Is the Allofmp3 pay service legal to use in other countries?</SPAN></FONT></LI><LI style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; background-color: #e2e6ee"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#091022" face="Verdana">We do <B>not</B> definitively know if importation of music from Allofmp3 is <B>legal</B> in your country</FONT></LI></OL><OL><LI style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; background-color: #e2e6ee"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111622" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">Do you pay artists?</SPAN></FONT></LI><LI style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; background-color: #e2e6ee"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#091022" face="Verdana">We pay Russian Licensing Societies 15% for all music. The Russian Licensing Societies will in turn pay the copyright owners, not necessarily the artists. Despite no legal requirement to do so, we are currently <B>considering</B> paying original performing artists 5%, regardless of who owns the copyright to the underlying work.</FONT></LI></OL><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>