Hi Badru, On 09/08/10 11:34, Badru Ntege (MPP) wrote: > Hi Tim > >> >> IANAL so I cannot comment on the position re Ugandan law, IMHO however, >> it cannot be morally justified to steal another persons copyrighted >> material in order to make money out of it. >> > > Who is stealing ??
If you go to the artists house and take their car for your own use, would you consider it stealing? I suspect you would. If you take their copyrighted work for your own use, you do not consider this stealing? Both are taking their property without permission. > The bottom line here is the stations that actually make > money out of this are not paying anything to the copyright holders and are > operating apparently within the confines of the law of the land. So where > would you like to start ?? > Well I repeat, let us see the evidence that the radio stations are stealing, but again if they are it doesn't justify others in doing it. Many people steal cars, so does that justify me taking yours? > And there is no charge for anyone to type www.yradio.ug apart from what is > paid to the ISP for the access. So yradio does not make money out of this > process. This however does not indemnify yradio from the copyright > discussion. As has been earlier stated lets look at the wider picture and > fix the problem at the right point. The right point is for people to respect other peoples property, but maybe I am wrong :-) > > Innovation and copyright have always met at cross roads and some amicable > compromise has always been the key to moving forward. The GPL agreement you > keep on stressing was a compromise position arrived at at allow for > innovation in the open source movement. The GPL is most definitely not a compromise position at all. Most critics say the complete opposite. When people have abused my copyright on GPL'ed code, I have successfully stopped them through the legal process and will continue to do so. > > Badru > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > --------------------------------------- > 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. ---------------------------------------
