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  I have a propriatery audio fingerprinting algorithm that I created over the years, and I use it to scan radio and tv stations for music, then create reports for it, etc.
  
  
  Croatian Discographers Union doesn't agree with transparency my system provides, and are determined to shut me down. So they claim that I am infringing their rights as they have under Art. 10 of the Rome Convention.
  
  
  Since I am never making any copies of their phonograms (supplied as mp3 by the system users') and audio fingerprint in nature isn't enough to re-construct any part of the audio signal - I am wondering if their claim stands or can be brought down and with what arguments.
  
  
  Basically, they claim that process of fingerprinting is similar to reproduction...
  
  
  
title: Audio fingerprinting legal issues