[geeks] Legal Corporate Music Servers

[gsm at mendelson.com]

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 03:39:41PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:

>"Open your wallet and repeat after me: 'Help yourself.'"

Reminds me of the "New Simplifed Form 1040" that surfaces every few years:

	1. Write how much you made last year here ______________

	2. Send it in.

On the original topic, wouldn't it be cheaper to buy everyone an MP3 player
and a gift certificate to a music service? If you wrap a contest around it,
the people that did not get them would not be able to complain.

For example, the "top engineer" that month gets an iPod touch or an iPhone
and a $100 gift certificate to iTunes, and down the line. If there are 5
prizes of various levels and 20 engineers, have 15 consolation prizes
of Chinese clip type MP3 players and a $5 gift certificate at Amazon's music
store.

Or to make it look more like a real contest, only give away 5 consolation 
prizes a month, with the rule that you can not win more than one prize in 6
months.

One of the terms of the contest would be that you agree not to connect 
any  player to a work computer or download music/video at work.

After a few months everyone is a winner, everyone has their own player and 
their own music and there is no RIAA liability for the company.

Geoff.

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Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel gsm at mendelson.com  N3OWJ/4X1GM