On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Fixer wrote: > I should have left it at "What are you talking about?" and not made the > assumption > I did, but that is where my mind went with your comment. Apologies. > > You made an allusion to someone who should be getting paid from the Final > Scratch developers?
I mentioned Curt Flood in my first email. Curt Flood was the first American professional athlete that had the rights to himself (the first "free agent"). Before Flood...the teams had the right to buy and sell players as they chose and they didn't have say so at all. After Flood, players were able to sell themselves as prices the market could bear. Shaquille O'Neal's $100 million contract couldn't have happened without Flood. If every professional athlete in an American market had to pay a tax to some type of institution bearing Flood's name...I think that would be cool. Similarly speaking, I thought it'd be cool if the creators of equipment that come out of DJ culture (Pioneer's CDJ equipment was made for the dj/turntablist for example and couldn't have existed without a culture in which scratching was an "artform") would have to pay some type of tax not so much to a single individual (grandmaster flash for example) but rather to some type of institution. This is what I was getting at. Not that the makers of Final Scratch were theives.... peace lks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
