Selma, Just to make a few brief points below:
* Copyright has reached ludicrous proportions. You are probably violating copyright laws by singing Happy Birthday To You! Please be careful when it's time for Lauren's next birthday! And see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/04/the-song-happy-birthday-is-copyrighted-and-brings-in-about-2000000-per-year-to-the-copyright-holders/ http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/birthday.asp * Whether you use it for commercial purposes or not, copyright violation is copyright violation! * I do not "believe in copyright" (in the sense that, I do not believe that copyright is primarily meant to reward the creator of a work, nor does so). But my way of fighting copyright is to create sharable products online, whenever possible, including some 29,000 photographs here http://photosfromgoa.notlong.com I cannot force anyone to share their copyrighted work with me, or grab it against their wishes. * I do believe JoeGoaUk has been doing a very good job in sharing information about Konkani entertainment, apart from other things (though I disagree with his anti-migrant stance), and I suspect many tiatrists are quite happy when they get publicity their work, in a way that doesn't reveal the whole. * Those commenting on the April 17, 2010 tiatr day debate that took place at the TAG office were not present for the event. The debate came up specifically in the context of Prof. Andre Rafael Fernandes' book, which has been released generously by him under a Creative Commons license (CC-BY-NC3.0). * Those who would like to use this as an excuse to settle other scores, I wish them good luck. My goal was to focus attention on sharing resources online, and am glad my almost tongue-in-cheek piece set the cat among the pidgeons :-) Frederick Noronha PS: I'd like to thank JoeGoaUk for being very generous in sharing with me too, the latest case being permission for four photographs we plan to carry in a forthcoming book. Of course, I'll keep to my side of the deal and ensure he gets credit for his work.... On 5 May 2010 02:53, Carvalho <[email protected]> wrote: > dear Samir, > I do believe in copyright but I don't believe that > JoeGoaUk used the internet for "commercial > purposes' and made money off his postings. > I also think we have to view this in light of > the service that JoeGoaUk does provide, > the video documenting and photographs he > disseminates without any charge. Herald has > often used his photographs without even > given him credit for it, and he has not made > a hue and cry about it. He has provided his > services free of cost when Rajan Parrikar > needed documentary evidence of vagrancy > around Panjim. To hang him out to dry > now, is not being a good Goan. If > tiatrists are being affected by his > posting of their artistic imput then a > simple private warning would have > sufficed. Afterall, he is available on email > even if he is an unknown entity.
