Pirates attack Mexico!

Concert Productions International, a Canadian rock concert tour promoter, certainly would object if I started downloading entire CDS of concerts by Canadian artists (I’m sure there are some… um… Brian Adams, uh… Gordon Lightfoot… Celine Dion … and … um, uh, ahhh ??)

While it’s true the Mex Files uses a Creative Commons License, which grants others the rights to reprint (with attribution) or “re-mix” files, it is for NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY.  Otherwise, normal International Copyright laws apply.  I don’t see that reposting   — in their entirety — twenty-four entire Mex Files on a site designed to draw business to Concert Productions International is anything but commercial.

Look, I don’t mind people copying an article now and again, or even reposting it as their own … but usually it’s penny-ante stuff not worth getting in a sweat over, or some kid doing their homework.  Not something on a corporate scale.  Corporations can pay.

People who are profiting from Mex Files should, I know not everyone can contribute, and a lot of times the only profit they receive is some help with their homework, or a better understanding of issues, or reassurance that they’re vacation is not going to entail kidnapping and walking the plank.   I ask those regular readers to try to commit to at least 3 USD per month… A MEASLY 36 DOLLARS A YEAR.

From Mr. Michael Cohl, Mr. David Wolinsky, Mr. William Ballard and Mr. Mark Norman of Concert Productions International, 111 George Street, 3rd Floor, Toronto, ON M5A 2N4 (Phone: +1-416-777-1811) I’d expect much more.

Copying their CDs is illegal, and so is commercial use of my production.  If these guys have a shred of integrity, they’ll make a sizable donation to the Mex Files at least comparable to what they expect to be paid were I to steal 25 of their CDs or DVDs. Retail.