Hi Badru, On 8 August 2010 13:07, Badru Ntege (MPP) <[email protected]> wrote: > As was stated this is an experiment on a number of fronts. > > > > The technological fronts are easy to approach and what can be done or not > done with yradio are really based on the limits of the imagination. >
Will you be releasing this code, so that others will be able to benefit from and extend it? > > > The legal aspect as seen within the laws of the land are still interesting > since we have been for a number of years asking for proper intellectual > Property rights and copyright laws. Most if not all discussants are basing > their input on international standards which all will not stand in a uganda > court of law. Others are basing the comments on morals however morality is > subjective and thus very rarely has weight in a court of law unless > supported by some legal statute. > I am not convinced that the morality of theft is subjective. If you take the copyrighted material of artists, and do not obey the license terms of the material, then surely this is theft? Whether or not you seek to make money - and we all want to make money - is irrelevant. > > > On whether I intend to make money from this project again here there is a > very thin line. I was at an interesting presentation on Friday where the > presenter said something very interesting. The most successful brand in the > world today which is Google, gives 90% of its content and services for > free. So here again I might want to make money out of this service but > might not charge for it. > But you would be making money from the content, because without the content the site is nothing. > > > We need to engage more on this and not limit what we do to whether it fits > into some law or not. ????? Really? > If it offers a service that was not envisaged when > the said law was drafted then lets challenge this and have the relevant > amendments. > > > > Since we started this thread I still think as far as uganda is concerned we > have a void. Whether what we are doing is morally right or wrong is > subjective lets engage on what is legally right or wrong and lets not start > and stop on Yradio. Do we have a framework that covers all the > stakeholders. We all listen to the FM stations playing music from our > favorite local artists. The question is have they been covered and do the > FM stations respect their IPR and copyright rights. The fact is no. > You have proof that these stations are perpetrating systematic theft? Can you put that proof forward in the public domain? As someone else pointed out in this thread the fact that somebody else is stealing doesn't make it right for you to. > > > So as we move forward and many of us push the envelope on creating local > content we also need to fully participate in the policy process. > Don't you believe the local artists deserve reward for their work? > > > regards > > > Thanks Tim -- WebERP Africa Ltd +447710427049 +256752963327 +255784602561 www.weberpafrica.com _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
