opaqueice Wrote: > To me, the very phrase "intellectual property" is an oxymoron. Well, that may be a bit much.
With no intellectual property rights, many performers, writers of computer programs, designers, etc, would have no income stream and no incentive to do what they do other than altruism, which only goes so far putting bread on the table. Your Bach analogy has problems. Bach had a rich sponsor, several actually. But his music was only for the rich, so almost no "popular with with the poor" music has survived from that time, because no one paid for it to be written down. If we give up performance royalties, we get only music suitable for the rich and powerful. Personally, I don't want to listen to "The War on Iraq, an incomplete sonnet in 3 parts, commissioned by G. W. Bush" for the next 50 years. -- Michaelwagner ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23869 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
