I've recently been thinking about the ethics of giving a club owner recordings of concerts at his club and getting free admission to some shows at his club. I'm thinking it's not a good idea.
why not? I give a local clug owner copies of everything I tape there. He throws me on the guestlist for a handful of shows...not a one for one relationship...but I see nothing wrong with it.
Ditto here...
What's a "clug owner"? I've got a club where I'm friendly with the owner. I give him a copy of my stage pull, and some photo's - he usually gives me a copy of his board DAT, plus I get into shows where that band hasn't guest-listed me already.
Then again, most of the time I pay to get into shows - why grub a $15-20 ticket from the BAND, when you can afford to pay for it. If you can afford to buy ALCOHOL, you can afford to pay for a ticket. Even when I guest-list large shows, I ask for backstage/photo passes and pay-for seats.
In the context of this thread though, giving copies of shows played at his club to a club-owner, and getting consideration from him to get into shows is ethical (IMHO), as the owner actually has something to do with the music being traded.
Trading copies of a show, where the item traded for exceeds the value of blank(s) is SELLING the recording (ex: Bon Jovi show for Chrome Handlebars), especially in the case where the guy you're trading with has nothing to do with the show itself.
The net piracy act got even more specific on this when it came to software trading (since music is considered "software" also in alot of cases) - it eliminated the "profit motive" from copyright violations, and essentially said that any unauthorized distribution of copywritten material, whether in exchange for value or not, was piracy.
Rick