on Wednesday night...........

I will be trying to have my say about the music industry on Radio 2.

8.45pm to 22.00pm...... or there about's

If you have any points, about the music industry, email me by 12.00pm today, and I will try to get them over. Yes I know chance and fat do go together in a well known phrase or saying, but i will try. - Honest gov, i'm a DJ (lol)

try to clarify, (or get changed) the actual ruling on whether or not anyone can make ONE copy of a song that they have on one medium, (EG: A CD copy of a Tune they have on vinyl)...

I've heard the two obvious opposite answers (Yes and err No!) from "legit" sources... so it seems that no one knows.

Another example is us copying our collections of CD singles onto our own complilation albums to save room in our cd cases...I'd rather carry 4 x CD's with 20 tunes on each, than carry 80 CD singles. But are we allowed?

Mikee
and of course our own cds onto MP3 programes. Not the downloaded Kazaa tracks.
What about a legit download service for dJ's
We are there promoting music tracks for the record industry artists should get royalties. We are all in the music industry.
We are not interested in flogging it at car boot sales.
Peteee

That is good point, I'm not personally interested in the latest s club 1234 single. However if it could be legally downloaded for dj use, as after all it is promotion for the group, especailly if it is played regularly to 50+ screaming 10 yr olds!

Mikeee, I'm all for reduced buying prices for D.J's with regard to C.D's, or even the re-introduction of the freebies that Radio stations get . After all, if you add up the number of D.J's who are at work at any given time, all over the world then it must equal the listening figures of the average community radio station who get a pile of CD's free in the post on an almost daily basis.

The general consensus, is that D.J's are promotors of music, and I have to agree, okay so we get paid for providing a service, but don't 99% of commerical stations make money also, and are run as a business??, yet they still get the music free to promote.

Even the reduction of the price of CDS to D.J's or the introduction of subscription services similar to Pioneer, Mastermix, DMC etc, where you pay monthly for a CD of new releases. However a monthly cost of £15+ is not exactly doing us any favours, particually as we are doing the artist and record label a favour by playing it in the first place!.

Ideally, this needs to be taken up by one of those "not for profit" organisations

Perhaps the record companies could strike up a deal with a download company to get their pre-releases out to the DJ's prior to launch.

This would be a HUGE benefit to the record company...NO MATERIAL COSTS, NO postage costs, etc.... they could even just email it out to DJ's on their lists. The file could then be burnt to CD for INSTANT promotion.

The benefits to the DJ is that on a day like today (rain - sorry guys I put my hammock out again!) you dont come home to a soggy brown sludge, containing a soggy cardboard sleeve, containing a soggy paper sleeve, containing a (now) label-less bit of vinyl, left on your doorstep. (or, alternatively, a lovely little card from Mr Postman about you collecting your parcel from their depot AFTER the gig that you ordered the records for in the first place.

Well Mikee's got to get there first & if he follows my info he wont be there much before next week!

Good Luck Mike & If you do think your going to a Karaoke after maybe you should look closer to home! (but not for long)

Have fun in chat peeps! your safe from me tonight

I won't be there till late again as work calls............like always!

Just to let you all know..........

It was a very well SCRIPTED programme.

BO OCKS

Hey Mikeee
what do you mean???
What happened

Don't you think most Q&A ARE SCRIPTED, ESPECIALLY AT THE bbc ?

Sorry getting late, can't be bothered to change it