I don't really disagree with you at all. I still don't feel quite right doing it, but that's the compromise I have made. Mostly I buy used CDs, but of course the artist gets nothing from that transaction either (and most used CDs nowadays probably leave digital files behind on the original purchaser's computer).
Copyright used to expire a certain amount of time after the creator's death (I think it was 70 years), but Congress (at the prodding of lobyists from the MPAA and RIAA) has continually expanded that to the point where works created today have essentially unlimited copyright. And there are two separate copyright holders on a recorded piece if music: the performer and the author. If I record an album of public domain traditional songs, I stll have copyright over the recording. Michaelwagner Wrote: > But their families might. > > Regardless of how you personally feel about it, society as a whole > decided, not just for music but for all copyright issues, decades ago, > that copyrights last for some period of time after the copyright holder > has died (I think it's 50 years). > > Notice that has nothing to do with the artist. The copyright holder is > the person who wrote the music, the words or both. S/He might even be > alive, even though the performer is dead. It often happens that they > don't die at the same time :-) -- superbad ------------------------------------------------------------------------ superbad's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=53 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18642 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
