On Aug 25, 2006, at 8:16 AM, dhbailey wrote:
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.
The supreme court is also to be faulted here. Since the 1980s, they
seem to have been operating on the following two principles: 1)
anything of value must be property; 2) property rights trump all
others. In the intellectual-property realm, the results have been
disastrous. The public domain scarcely exists any more.
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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