Ebay protects a musician from selling his own music?

[Max.Hyre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

   Dear Copyrighters:

   Here's a truly weird one:  Ebay won't let a garage band sell its
own recordings.  Much speculation as to why and how, but at a minimum
it's a result of Ebay's too-eager copyright-infringement-violation-
prevention policy.  (How's that for an adjective?  I should take up
German.  :-)

  Ziff-Davis has a brief notice at

	http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,660141,00.asp

and the musician in question has put up his experience at

	http://www.azoz.com/music/ebayintro.html

where he notes that he has ``resolved [his] customer service issues
with eBay...'', but looks into why he had trouble in the first place.

   The latter is fairly long, with much about dealing with Ebay and
getting no meaningful response, but Ebay finally suggest it's due to a
policy against selling CD-Rs (to prevent infringement) and/or against
mentioning more than one well-known artist in the description (to
prevent keyword spamming).  The author goes on a hunt to find the
_real_ reason.  It's an interesting view of where copyright is for
those not signed with distributors.


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                         Best wishes,

                                  Max Hyre