Description: A system and method for recording
live performances (e.g. music concerts), editing them into tracks
during the performance, and recording them to media (e.g. CDs)
within minutes of the performance ending.
Patent Name: System and method of creating
digital recordings of live performances
Patent Number: 6,614,729
Critical Date: September 26, 2000
Crimes against the public domain
- Claiming to own a monopoly on all-in-one technologies that produce post-concert live recordings on digital media
- Forcing bands like the Pixies to use ClearChannel's CD-burning systems instead of their own or those of small start-up companies
- Threatening to sue anyone who produces post-show live recordings at any of its 100+ venues in the U.S.
- Twisting artists' arms to give up a significant chunk of their concert merchandise sales, one of the few revenue streams not already taxed by most recording labels
- Inhibiting investment and innovation in the post-event content distribution market by companies such as Kufala and Hyburn
