On 6/15/07, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 15/06/07, Richard Lockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OK. So if I can't perform live (due to terrible stage fright (see
> XTC), disability or any other reason), what do I do?
And if I develop RSI or another disability that prevents me doing my job?
There is a reason we have a benefit for disability!
We also have a little something called insurance that can cover you
should you develop a disability.
No. You're deliberately misunderstanding me. Not "What if I am
suddenly unable to perform live?", but "what if I've never been able
to - but am still perfectly able to perform recorded music?"
> And if you think
> that physical merchandise (by which I assume you mean t-shirts etc)
> can't be copied, you've obviously never been to any live gigs.
> Bootleg merchandise traders are legion - and in your happy "free"
> world, the band wouldn't own their own logos, album cover designs etc,
> so that bootlegging would be legal.
Your name and logo's would still be covered by "Trademark" and similar
protections. Misrepresenting the source of a good is surely illegal
isn't it?
Oh - so visual intellectual property is fine, but recorded isn't?
> Any other brilliant thoughts?
Why don't you offer something constructive for once?
I'm not pretending that I have a solution - I'm simply pointing out
that while DRM isn't a perfect solution, the wholesale removal of
rights and restrictions on recorded product isn't a viable and moral
alternative.
Anyway the presence of other business models is insignificant, I don't
need an alternative business model to determine whether the current
one is morally right or not. But that is another discussion.
So you don't need to offer anything constructive, but I do? I see.
Rich.
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