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Re:Google has killed Discord's best music bot by mritun on Thursday August 26, 2021 @11:24PM (#28323974)
Not in this case. It’s incorrect to call that they “own” the music if they don’t own the rights to it anymore because they sold the rights to someone else in exchange for money.

One can make a great painting and then sell the painting and the right to make copies of the painting to someone else. In this case, they would not be able to redraw that painting anymore than anyone else can.

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Re:Google has killed Discord's best music bot by pritambaral on Friday August 27, 2021 @12:19AM (#28324266)
As the rest of the comment says: "Mike Shinoda mentioned that rights for Linkin Park music are held by a small number of people (possibly just the band?) and he offered Twitch that he could provide explicit consent from those people if they could exempt his channel from DMCA enforcement of LP music"

Just because a creator can sell the rights does not automatically mean that every creator has. Let's assume good faith on the part of someone as proud of their work (and deservedly so) as Mike Shinoda.

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Re:Google has killed Discord's best music bot by rrobukef on Friday August 27, 2021 @04:47AM (#28325612)
And the creator may retain their right to distribute, perform etc.
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