Richard Smith wrote:
I certainly didn't mean to imply this was a legal opinion. The point was that current copyright laws are unreasonable and regressive in the light of modern technology. I just think changes are needed.
Changes are indeed needed, and they happen all the time. Unfortunately, they happen in the favor of copyright owners and at the price of reducing or removing rights of end-users.
That's because the United States Congress, for all it's "voice of the people" and "representing the voters" clap-trap is for sale to the highest bidder, and since the corporations such as Warner Brothers and Hal Leonard and Walt Disney and Sony, etc. have much deeper pockets than any organized group of music users, what they want gets enacted and the rest of us can just be damned.
What's really too bad is that the corporations don't realize that what the end-users of printed music want isn't going to hurt their bottom line at all -- they're not making any money from permanently out of print music anyway and by placing it on the P.O.P. list they are advertising that fact for all to know, yet they still insist on not relinquishing any ability for us to keep on using the music we've legally purchased and for which performance royalties and recording royalties will still get paid.
But that's what happens when those who benefit most from a law are the folks who actually get to help write that law.
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